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Go slow

much more harmful than total cessation of work by strike. For, while during a strike much of the machinery can be fully turned off, during the 'go-slow' the machinery is kept going on a reduced speed which

League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

the responsibility of all peoples; provision of means for adapting existing rights, when necessary, to justice. The League's machinery, the only existing one on adequately large scale, includes a Council; a larger Assembly; a Secretariat which constitutes

Plant

Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation

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Factory

close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair,

Fixtures

causes no material injury to the estate; furnaces, coppers, brewing vessels, fixed vats, salt pans, and the like; machinery in breweries, collieries, and mills, such as steam-engines, cider mills, etc.; buildings for trade, as a varnish-house, built

Cock oven plant

the manufacture of hard coke has been or is being, carried on, and includes-(i) all lands, building, works, machinery and equipment, vehicles, railways, tramways and sidings, belonging to, or in the coke oven plant, (ii) all workshop

Emergency

a situation which is not normal, a situation which calls for urgent remedial action. Break-down of the Constitutional machinery in a State does gives rise to a situation of emergency, S.R. Bommai v. Union of India, AIR

Distress

that is, only if there be other sufficient distress on the premises. Also, on agricultural holdings; (13) Hired machinery and breeding stock absolutely; and (14) Agisted stock, conditionally. A distress cannot be made in the night, i.e.,

industrial revolution

as the resulting changes in economic and social organization accompanying the replacement of hand labor by power driven machinery It started in England in about 1760 and spread to other countries with very varying time lags The

Government

proper in a nation or state; an organisation through which a body of people exercise political authority; the machinery by which foreign prover is exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703. It means, in relation to

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