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Machine
Machine, A device or apparatus consisting of, fined and moving parts that work together to perform some function, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 961.Machine, includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transferred, transmitted or applied to a dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (i)]Machine, the meaning of the word 'machine' according to the dictionary in a popular and mechanical sense is '....... more or less complex combination of mechanical parts, as levers, gears, sprocket wheels, pulleys, shafts and spindles, ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change it in some pre-conceived and definite manner, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Mal, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407....
Dangerous machine
Dangerous machine, means a power thresher, and includes any such machine intended to be used in the agricultural or rural sector the Central Government, being of opinion that it is of such a nature that any accident in the course of operation thereof is likely to cause to its operator death, dismemberment of any limb or other bodily injury, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify as dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (c)]...
Code
Code, a collection or system of laws. The collection of laws and constitutions made by order of the Emperor Justinian is distinguished by the appellation of 'The Code' by way of eminence. See CIVIL LAW.The Code Napoleon, or Civil Code of France, pro-ceeding from the French Revolution, and the administration of Napoleon while First Consul, effected great changes in the laws of that country. Framed in the first instance by a commission of jurists appointed in 1800, this Code, after having passed both the tribunate and the legislative body, was promulgated in 1804 as the 'Code Civil des Francais.' When Napoleon became emperor, the name was changed to that of Code Napoleon, by which it is still often designated, though it is now styled by its original name of Code Civil. A Code de Procedure Civile, a Code de Commerce, Code d'Instruction Criminelle, and Code Penal were afterwards compiled and promulgated under Bonaparte's administration. To these was sub-sequently added a Code Forestier, or...
Threshing machines
Threshing machines. Steam threshing machines, by the Threshing Machines Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 12), must be fenced....
machine readable passport (mrp)
machine readable passport (mrp) A passport which has biographic information entered on the data page according to international specifications. A machine readable passport is required to travel with a visa on the Visa Waiver Program. See the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to learn more about the requirements. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
machine readable visa (mrv)
machine readable visa (mrv) A visa that contains biometric information about the passport holder. A visa that immigration officers read with special machines when the applicants enter the United States. It gives biographic information about the passport holder and tells the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information on the type of visa. It is also called MRV. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Machine
In general any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc especially a construction more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical elements as wheels levers cams etc with their supports and connecting framework calculated to constitute a prime mover or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine and transmit modify and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work as weaving by a loom or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine...
Chaff-cutting machines
Chaff-cutting machines are required, for prevention of accidents, if worked by any motive power other than manual labour, to have their feeding mouths so contrived as to prevent the hand of the person feeding them from being drawn between the rollers to the knives. [(English) Chaff-Cutting Machines (Accidents) Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 60)]...
code
code [Old French, from Medieval Latin codex, from Latin caudex codex tree trunk, set of wood writing tablets, book] 1 : a systematic compilation or revision of law or legal principles that is arranged esp. by subject: as a : one that contains the law of a specific jurisdiction or topic promulgated by legislative authority [U.S. Code] [Code of Massachusetts Regulations] [building ] see also Important Laws in the back matter compare case law, digest, statute b : one that serves as a model for legislation but is not itself a law [Model Penal Code] 2 : a set of rules or regulations that is promulgated by a body (as a professional organization) and that regulates its industrial or professional practices [ABA Code of Professional Responsibility] ...
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