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any biological resource or technological applica-tion, that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof to make or modify products or processes for any use. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(m)]

Legislative power and judicial power

duty. This view of the distinction between the obligation to apply and enforce rules and a discretion to modify rules or make new rules was at one time applied uncompromisingly in describing functions as legislative or judical,

Modificatory

Tending or serving to modify modifying

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Henry VIII Clause

Act into full operation or otherwise by Order to remove any difficulty, and at times giving power to modify the provisions of other Acts also, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Brojo Nath, AIR 1986 SC

Limitation, words of

Limitation, words of, those which operate by reference to, or in connection with, other words, and extend or modify an estate given by such other words, as 'heirs,' 'heirs of the body.' See 1 Smith's Real and

Machinery

other mechanical contrivances, by the combined movement and inter-dependent operation of their respective parts generate power, or evoke, modify, apply or direct natural forces with the object in each case of effecting so definite and specific a

Major port

Basu, Vol. 5, p. 213. [Constitution of India, Art. 364(2)(a)] The President is empowered to exclude, restrict or modify the laws made by Parliament or a State Legislature or the existing laws in their application to major

Open contract

the meaning admits the implications of law without special conditions, or except so far as such conditions may modify these implications, as a contract to sell land without mentioning the day for completion of the purchase, or

Restrictive Covenant

more of the official arbitrators under the Acquisition of Land (Assess-ment of Compensation) Act, 1919, to discharge or modify the covenants under the conditions imposed by the Act.

Summons

(or a master) to settle matters of detail in the procedure of a suit; as, for directions; to modify pleadings when inconvenient, to require security for costs, to change the venue, etc. There is an appeal from

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