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Maximum demand, The 'maximum demand' as defined in s. 2(8) of the Act has always a reference to a past period and there can be no maximum demand in relation to a future period. The phrase should not be given two different meanings, one for the licensee and the other for the consumer asking for the maximum demand, The Sihor Electricity Works Ltd. v. Gujarat Electricity Board, AIR 1969 SC 770: (1969) 1 SCC 423: (1969) 3 SCR 438....
Maximum period
Maximum period, As Parliament has power to repeal a law fixing the maximum period under Article 22(7) (b), the longer period fixed under the later law of detention would become the maximum period. The word 'may' in Article 22(7) amounts to 'shall', Fagu Shaw v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1974 SC 613: (1974) 4 SCC 152: (1974) 2 SCR 832. [Constitution of India, Art. 22(7)]...
Maximum retail price
Maximum retail price, means the maximum price fixed by an entity at which the petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas may be sold to the retail consumers and includes all taxes, cess and levies local or otherwise and freight or commission payable to the dealers. [The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(n)]...
Maximum marginal rate
Maximum marginal rate, means the rate of wealth-tax applicable in relation to the highest slab of wealth in the case of an individual as specified in part I of Schedule I. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957), s. 2 (lc)]...
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
qualifying ratios
qualifying ratios guidelines utilized by lenders to determine how much money a homebuyer is qualified to borrow. Lending guidelines typically include a maximum housing expense to income ratio and a maximum monthly expense to income ratio. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
uim
uim Shorthand for "underinsured motorist," or those fellow motorists whose automobile insurance maximum is insufficient to cover a specific loss. UIM pays you, or those people covered under your policy, for bodily injury losses if the other driver is liable and has coverage that does not fully compensate you for your losses. The maximum of a UIM recovery is your policy limit. ...
Birds
Birds. Larceny may be committed at Common Law of domestic fowls, as hens, ducks, geese, etc. (1 Hale, PC 511), and of tame pigeons, though unconfined, Reg. v. Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or shall be in possession of any such bird, or the plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny at Common Law, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 23, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41. See also the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911...
Firearms
Firearms. This word comprises all sorts of guns, fowling-pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, etc. Their discharge in a street is penal.A weapon that expels a projected (such as ballets or pallets) by combustion of gunpowder or other explosive, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.For the purposes of the (English) Fire Arms Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 43), 'firearm' means 'any lethal firearm or other weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, or any part thereof, and the expression 'ammunition' means ammunition for any such firearms, and includes grenades, bombs, and other similar missiles, whether such missiles are capable of use with a firearm or not. The (English) Firearms Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 16), amends the definition by including smoothbore shot gun, air gun, or air rifle and ammunition, if deemed a lethal weapon. A person under seventeen shall not purchase or hire, nor shall anyone sell to such person, a firearm or ammunition. A pe...
Land-tax
Land-tax, means a tax laid upon land and houses, which in 1689 (1 Will. & Mary, c. 3) superseded all the former methods of taxing either property or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenth or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hydages, scutages, or talliages. Although generally a charge upon a landlord, yet it is a tax neither on landlord nor tenant, but on the beneficial proprietor, as distinguished from the mere tenant at rack-rent; and if a tenant have to any extent a beneficial interest, he becomes liable to the tax pro tanto, and can only charge the residue on his landlord. Houses and buildings appropriated to public purposes are not liable to land-tax. As to its origin and inequality, see 3 Hall. Cons. Hist. 135; Miller on the Land-tax; Bourdin on Land-tax.The more agricultural counties, upon which the burden of the tax has fallen most heavily by reason of the depreciation in value of agricultural land, were greatly relieved by s. 31 of the (English) Finance Act, 1896,...
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