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Passive flight

Flight such as gliding and soaring accomplished without the use of motive power...


Passive balloon

One unprovided with motive power...


Chaff-cutting machines

Chaff-cutting machines are required, for prevention of accidents, if worked by any motive power other than manual labour, to have their feeding mouths so contrived as to prevent the hand of the person feeding them from being drawn between the rollers to the knives. [(English) Chaff-Cutting Machines (Accidents) Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 60)]...


Involve

Involve, The word 'involve' does not necessitate the bringing out of the profit motive of an activity expressly in the deed of trust, Sole Trustee Loka Sikshana Trust v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1976 SC 10 (24): (1976) 1 SCC 254.The word 'involve' according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary means 'to enwrap in anything, to enfold or envelop; to contain or imply'. The activity for profit must, therefore, be intertwined or wrapped up with or implied in the purpose of the trust or institution or in other words it must be an integral part of such purpose, Additional Commissioner of Income Tax v. Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers' Association, AIR 1980 SC 387 (400): (1980) 2 SCC 31....


Crypto-terrorisn

Crypto-terrorisn, terrorism with mysterious origins, instigated by writing with underlying motives. [M.A. Jinnah - The Divisive Genius Who Engineered India's Vivisection in Legally Speaking, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 3]. Also See Constitutionally Inscribed Social justice and Operationally Opposite Agenda in Practice in Legally Speaking, p. 70 (72). (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...


Motor spirit

Motor spirit is defined by s. 84 of the (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, as:-Any inflammable hydrocarbon (including any mixture of hydrocarbons and any liquid containing hyrdocarbon), which is capable of being used for providing reasonably efficient motive power for a motor car.Means any hydrocarbon oil (excluding crude mineral oil) used as fuel in spark ignition engines which conforms to such specifications, as the Central Government may, in consultation with the Bureau of Indian Standards, notify from time to time. [The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(z)]...


Volt

Volt, means a unit of electro-motive force and is the electric pressure which, when steadily applied to a conductor, the resistance of which is one ohm, will produce a current of one ampere. [Indian Electri-city Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (au)]...


Smoke, Consumption of

Smoke, Consumption of, prescribed in the Metro-polis by the Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), ss. 147 et seq, see LONDON; in Scotland, by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 73; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 17; and 28 & 29 Vict. c. 102; for loco-motives on railways by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 114, as amended by the Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119), s. 19; see London County Council v. G.E.R., (1906) 2 KB 312; and in towns generally by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 91, as amended by the Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926, replaced by the P.H. Act, 1936, ss. 101-106....


Reward

Reward, a recompense for anything done.Something of value, usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321.By the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826, s. 28, the Courts may order the sheriff of the county, in which certain offences have been committed, to pay the person active in or towards the apprehension of persons charged with felonies a reasonable sum to compensate for expense, exertion, and loss of time, and by s. 30, if a man be killed in attempting to take such offenders the Court may order compensation to his wife or relatives. See Archbold, Crim. Pleading, etc., 25th Edn., pp. 276 et seq.Corruptly taking a reward for helping to the recovery of stolen property without exercising all due diligence to cause the offender to be brought to trial is punishable by penal servitude up to seven years. [(English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 34, and cf. ...


Recital

Recital, is evidence as against the parties to the instrument and those claiming under them and in an action on the instrument itself, the recitals operate as an estoppel, though would not be so on a collateral matter, Ram Charan Das v. Girja Nandini Devi, AIR 1966 SC 323: (1965) 1 SCWR 837: (1966) 1 SCJ 61.The rehearsal or making mention in a deed or writing of something which has been done before, 1 Lilly Abr. 416. As to how far the recitals govern the construction of a deed the rule is as follows:-If the recitals are clear and the operative part is ambiguous, the recitals govern the construction. If the recitals are ambiguous, and the operative part is clear, the operative part must prevail. If both the recitals and the operative part are clear, but they are inconsistent with each other, the operative part is to be preferred [Ex parte Dawes, (1886) 17 QBD 286, per Lord Esher, M.R.]. As between the parties to a deed and for its purposes only and subject to the intention of the partie...



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