Melting Pot - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: melting potMelting pot
A vessel in which anything is melted a crucible...
Crucible
A vessel or melting pot composed of some very refractory substance as clay graphite platinum and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat as metals ores etc...
vocational rehabilitation (vr)
vocational rehabilitation (vr) Vocational rehabilitation generally includes a melting pot of services that are offered to injured employees to help them return to work following a work injury. VR may involve transferable skills assessments, educational courses, job search assistance, and many other vocational aids. Vocational rehabilitation is sometimes also referred to as "occupational rehabilitation." ...
Crevet
A crucible or melting pot a cruset...
Cruset
A goldsmiths crucible or melting pot...
Confusion, property by
Confusion, property by. Where goods of two persons are so intermixed that the several portions can no longer be distinguished; if the intermixture be by consent, it is supposed that the proprietors have an interest in common, in proportion to their respective shares; but if one wilfully intermix his money, corn, or hay, with that of another man, without his approbation or knowledge, or cast gold in like manner into another's melting-pot or crucible, our law allows no remedy in such a case, but gives the entire property without any account to him whose original dominion or property is invaded, and endeavoured to be rendered uncertain without his consent, 2 Bl. Com. 405. See also Vin. Abr. Justification (B) and Instit. of Justin. 1. Ii. tit. 1, ss. 27-34.As to the position where a person pays money held by him in a fiduciary character into his own banking account, see Re Hallett'' Estate, (1879) 13 Ch D 696; Sinclair v. Brougham, 1914 AC 398.By the (English) Solicitors Act, 1933 (23 & 24...
Main Pot
Main Pot : a step in calculating tax liability under Internal Revenue Code section 1231 in which all qualified transactions are netted to determine if the result is a loss or gain called also Big Pot Hodge Podge hotchpot; compare casualty pot NOTE: The transactions netted in the Main Pot are as follows: casualties in the Casualty Pot if they have netted a gain; sales, exchanges, or condemnations of depreciable or real property used in a business for more than one year; and condemnations of capital assets held for more than one year in connection with a trade or business or transaction entered into for profit. If the net result is a gain, then the transactions are treated as long-term capital gains and losses. ...
Casualty Pot
Casualty Pot : a step in calculating tax liability under Internal Revenue Code section 1231 in which qualified casualty gains and losses are added together to determine if the result is a net loss or net gain compare main pot NOTE: Property that qualifies for inclusion in the Casualty Pot consists of casualties of depreciable and real property used in a trade or business for more than one year and capital assets held for more than one year in connection with a trade or business or transaction made for profit. If the net result of the calculation is a loss, then the ordinary rules for gains and losses apply to the casualties. If the net result is a gain, the entire amount passes into the Main Pot. ...
Joint pattedars and pot pattedars
Joint pattedars and pot pattedars, where a parti-cular survey number is split into several sub-numbers and each plot is assessed separately to a part of the revenue on the former number, the persons made liable to pay the separated amount are the 'pot pattedars' One 'pot' pattedar is not jointly responsible with the other for the payment of the revenue of the other 'pot' numbers, and his position is different from that of joint pattedars, where each is liable for the payment of the entire amount assessed on a particular survey number, Govind Rao v. Erbhadrappa, AIR 1956 Hyd 50....
Pot
A metallic or earthen vessel appropriated to any of a great variety of uses as for boiling meat or vegetables for holding liquids for plants etc as a quart pot a flower pot a bean pot...
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