Mere Skill - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Mere skill, the expression 'mere skill' would mean substantial degree or preponderance of skill, K.R. Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1996 SC 1153 (1162): (1996) 2 SCC 226. [Madras City Police Act (3 of 1988), s. 49A]...
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,...
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth.The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties of 40s. for every day of so keeping the house, and 6s. 8d. for every time of playing therein; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1738 (12 Geo. 2, c. 28) (applied by the Gaming Act, 1739 (13 Geo. 2, c. 19), to all games with dice, except backgammon, and by the (English) Gaming Act, 1744 (18 Geo. 2, c. 34), to 'roulet, otherwise roly-poly'), declares hazard and other games to be lotteries, so that the keepers of tables for them are liable to penalties under the (English) Lotteries Act, 1721 (8 Geo. 1, c. 2), the (English)Lotteries Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 6), and the Lotteries Act, 1698 (10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17); the system ofincorporation of previous statutes by referencebeing carried very far in gaming legislation.Gaming in Public-houses, etc.--Sect. 79 of the (E...
Profit motive
Professional institution, means organisations which import advanced learning in a particular field on profession such as law, medicine or engineering for attachment of special knowledge as distinguished from mere skill, Kannammal Educational Trust v. Union of Madras, AIR 1996 Mad 303. [See T.N. Private College (Regulations) Act, (19 of 1976), s. 3]...
Skilled
Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application familiarly acquainted with expert skillful often followed by in as a person skilled in drawing or geometry...
Labour and skill
Labour and skill, the dictionary meaning of 'skill', inter alia, is: 'the familiar knowledge of any science, art, or handicraft, as shown by dexterity in execution or performance; technical ability' and the meaning of 'labour' inter alia, is: 'physical or mental exertion, particularly for some useful or desired end, Chandrakant Manilal Shah v. CIT, AIR 1992 SC 66 (75): (1992) 1 SCC 76....
mere descriptiveness
mere descriptiveness Statutory basis for refusing registration of trademarks and service marks because the proposed mark merely describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the specified goods or services. With regard to trademark significance, matter may be categorized along a continuum, ranging from marks that are highly distinctive to matter that is a generic name for the goods or services. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
Skill less
Wanting skill...
En ventre sa mere
En ventre sa mere. [Fr. In its mother's womb.] A child in the womb of the mother is for most purposes regarded in English law as being already born. But there are certain important exceptions. For example, if a child is killed whilst it is within the womb, it cannot be the subject of a murder or manslaughter charge, but otherwise if it receives injuries whilst in the womb which occasion its death after birth, R. v. Senior, (1832) 1 Moo CC 346. In civil matters also the fiction of birth is only to be applied if the maintenance of the fiction is for the child's benefit and not its detriment, Villar v. Gilbey, 1907 AC 139, but it has lately been held by the House of Lords that the doctrine does not apply where a benefit is not destined directly to the child and is only for his indirect benefit, if any: Elliot v. Joicey (Lord), 1935 AC 209, and see LQR, January, 136, for a note on the case. Subject to the narrowing of the doctrine by Elliot v. Joicey, ubi. Sup., a liberal interpretation wi...
In ventre sa mere
In ventre sa mere (in his mother's womb). See EN VENTRE SA MERE....
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