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Material services

Material services, involve an activity carried on through co-operation between employers and employees to provide the community with the use of something such as electric power, water, transportation, mail delivery, telephones and the like. In providing these services there may be employment of trained men and even professional men, but the emphasis is not on what these men do but upon the productivity of a service organised as an industry and commercially valuable, Mgmt. of Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735...


Industry

Industry, 'Industrial dispute' and 'workman' taken in the extended significance, or exclude it. Though the word 'undertaking' in definition of industry is wedged in between business and trade on the one hand and manufacture on the other, and though therefore it might mean only a business or trade undertaking, still it must be remembered that if that were so, there was no need to use the word separately from business or trade. The wider import is attracted even more clearly when we look at the latter part of the definition which refers to 'calling, service, employment, or industrial occupation of, avocation of workman. 'Undertak-ing' in the first part of the definition and 'industrial occupation or avocation in the second part obviously mean much more than what is ordinarily understood by trade or business. The definition was apparently intended to include within scope what might not strictly be called a trade or business venture, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa,...


Trade

Trade [fr. trutta, Ital.], traffic; intercourse; commerce; exchange of goods for other goods, or for money.The business of buying and selling or bartering goods or services, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1500.As to contracts in restraint of trade, see RESTRAINT OF TRADE.A 'trade association' means an association of tradesmen, businessmen or manufacturers for the protection and advancement of their common interest, State of Gujarat v. Mahesh Kumar Dhirajlal Thakkar, AIR 1980 SC 1167: (1980) 2 SCC 322.It means any trade, business, industry, profession or occupation relating to the production, supply, distribution or control of goods and includes the provision of any services. [Monopolies and restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (54 of 1969), s. 2 (s)]Means any trade, business, industry, profession or occupation relating to the production, supply, distribution, storage or control of goods and includes the provision of any services. [Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), s. 2(x)]The ...


Undertaking

Undertaking, denotes 'any business or any work or project which one engages in or attempts as an enterprise analogous to business or trade, Secretary Madras Gymkhana Club Employees Union v. Manage-ment of Gymkhana Club, AIR 1968 SC 554: (1968) 2 SCJ 138: (1968) 1 SCA 379: (1967) 2 SCWR 618: (1967) 2 Lab LJ 720: 33 FJR 157: (1968) Lab JC 547: (1968) 2 Andh WR (SC) 6: (1968) 2 Mad LJ (SC) 6: 15 Fac LR 411: 16 Law Rep 140.Undertaking, denotes, with reference to company law, all the assets of the company past present and future, and is a mortgageable interest being commonly charged by the debentures of the company. 'Undertaking' means a unit, such as a factory or a granary, Industrial Disputes Tribunal (in re:), (1956) 3 All ER 111.Undertaking, in a compromise decree does not mean a promise to a court. It is merely a solemn promise by one party to the other when it appears in an agreement between the two, Nisha Kant Roy v. Sandji Bashnai, Goho, AIR 1948 Cal 294: 49 Cr LJ 567.Undertaking, i...


Profession

Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798.A profession ordinarily is an occupation requiring intellectual skill, often coupled with manual skill. Thus a teacher uses purely intellectual skill while a painter uses both. In any event, they are not engaged in an occupation in which employers and employees co-operates in the production or sale of commodities or arrangement for their production or sale or distribution and their services cannot be described as material services, Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, AIR 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735; see also Sodan Singh v. NDNC, (1989) 4 SCC 155.Calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, physic, and law are called the learned professions.Includes business, Pioneer Motors v. Municipal Council Ngarcoil, AIR 1967 SC 684: 1961 (3) SCR 609.Profession,...


utility

utility pl: -ties 1 : fitness for some purpose or worth to some end 2 a : public utility b : a service or commodity provided by a public utility [paid for rent and utilities] ;also : equipment or material used in providing such a service or commodity [an easement limited to purposes of travel which does not include the right to install utilities "Ware v. Public Serv. Co., 412 A.2d 84 (1980)"] 3 pl : stocks or bonds of utility companies [utilities performed poorly] ...


procurement

procurement 1 : the act of procuring 2 : the purchasing, leasing, renting, or selling of materials, services, equipment, or construction ...


inventory

inventory pl: -ries 1 : an itemized list of current assets: as a : a written list or catalog of the property of an individual, organization, or estate or succession that is made by a fiduciary under oath and that usually describes and assigns a value to the items or classes of property b : aggregate value assigned to an inventory 2 : goods or materials held on hand: as a under the Bankruptcy Code : materials including personal property leased or furnished, held for sale or lease, or to be furnished under a contract for service, raw materials, work in process, or materials used or consumed in a business or held for sale or lease b under section 9-109 of the Uniform Commercial Code : goods that are held by a person who holds them for sale or lease or to be furnished under contracts of service or if he or she has so furnished them or that are raw materials, works in process, or materials used or consumed in a business ...


Advertisement

Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...


quantum meruit

quantum meruit [Latin, as much as he/she deserved] 1 : a claim or count grounded on an implied contract that the defendant would pay the plaintiff as much as deserved for services or materials provided ;specif : a count in a common-law action for assumpsit claiming payment of the value of labor provided 2 : a theory or doctrine that permits recovery by a party for services or materials provided despite the absence of an express contract when they were accepted and used by the defendant under circumstances which gave reasonable notice that the plaintiff expected to be paid for them compare unjust enrichment ...


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