Modify

Modify, 'Modify' connoted not merely reduction but also other kinds of alteration including enlargement, Western India Theatres Ltd. v. Municipal Corporation of the City of Poona, AIR 1959 SC 586 (589): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 71. [Bombay Municipal Boronghs Act, 1925, s. 60]The word 'modify' means, according to Oxford Dictionary, 'to limit, restrain, to assuage, to make less serve, rigorous, or decisive to tone down'. It also means partial changes in: to alter without radical transformation', Burrakur Coal Co. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1961 SC 954 (962). [Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act 1957, s. 5(b)]...

Modify

To change somewhat the form or qualities of to change a part of something while leaving most parts unchanged to alter somewhat as to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose to modify the terms of a contract...

Modifiability

Capability of being modified state or quality of being modifiable...

Modifier

One who or that which modifies...

Modifiable

Capable of being modified liable to modification...

modified adjusted gross income

modified adjusted gross income There are different definitions for different purposes. It is usually the adjusted gross income with various items added back in. ...

Modification

Modification, includes additions, omissions and amendments and related expressions shall be construed accordingly. An 'addition' or 'omission', not amounting to or requiring an amendment will be a modification, Aon Trust Corpn. v. KPMG, (2005) 1 WLR (Ch). [See (English) Pension Schemes Act, 1993, s. 181; (English) Pension Act, 1995, ss. 56(2)(a), 60, 67, 75]Modification, the term usually applied to the decree of the Teind Court, awarding a suitable stipend to the minister of a parish, Bell's Scots LawDict.The court must give the widest effect to the meaning of the word 'modification' used in Article 370(1) and in that sense it includes an amendment. There is no reason to limit the word 'modifications' as used in Article 370(1) only to such modifications as do not make any 'radical transformation', Puranlal Lakhanpal v. President of India, AIR 1961 SC 1519 (1520): (1962) 1 SCR 688. [Constitution of India, Art. 370 (1) (d)]Modify' and 'modification' have been defined in s. 2(29) of the C...

Shall have regard to the provisions of this Act

Shall have regard to the provisions of this Act, words 'shall have regard to the provisions of this Act' merely mean that 'where the new Act has slightly modified or clarified the previous provisions, these modifications and clarifications should be applied', Karam Singh Sobti v. Pratap Chand, AIR 1964 SC 1305: (1964) 4 SCR 647.The expression 'shall have regard to the provisions of this Act' merely means that where the new Act had slightly modified or classified the previous provisions these modifications and clarifications should be applied. These words did not take away what was provided by sub-s. (2) of s. 57 and ordinarily the old Act would apply to pending proceedings, S. Kartar Singh v. Chamanlal, AIR 1969 SC 1288: (1969) 1 SCC 760: (1970) 1 SCR 9....

Regulated by usage

Regulated by usage, the phrase 'regulated by usage' in s. 6(9) of the Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951, must be construed along with the phrase 'succession to this office' and when so construed that part of the definition would only apply where the ordinary rules of succession under the Hindu law are modified by usage and succession has to be deter-mined in accordance with the modified rules, Sambudamurthi Mudaliar v. State of Madras, AIR 1971 SC 2363: (1970) 1 SCC 4: (1970) 2 SCR 424....

Modification

The act of modifying or the state of being modified a change as the modification of an opinion or of a machine...

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