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College [fr. colligo, Lat., to bring to], a corporation, company, or society of men, having certain privileges and endowed with certain revenues, founded by royal license. An assemblage of several collages is called a University.'College' means a college maintained by, or admitted to the privileges of, the University. [Mizoram University Act, (8 of 2000), s. 2(e); (58 of 1994), s. 2(f)]An assembly of people, established by law to perform some special function or to promote some common purpose, vsu. of an educational, political, ecclesiastical, or scientific nature, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 258.Means a college or teaching institutions other than a University established or maintained by a person or group of persons from amongst a minority community. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, 2004 (2 of 2005) s. 2(b)...
Commercial purpose
Commercial purpose, 'Commercial' denotes 'pertaining to commerce'; it means 'connected with, or engaged in commerce; mercantile; having profit as the main aim' whereas the word 'commerce' means 'financial transactions especially buying and selling of merchandise, on a large scale', Laxmi Engineering Works v. P.S.G. Industrial Institute, (1995) 3 SCC 583: AIR 1995 SC 1428 (1435). [Consumer Protection Act (68 of 1986), s. 2(d)]Means a hydrocarbon mixture consisting predominantly of propane, propylene or any mixture of them, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 20, para 669, p. 535.Observation of the National Commission that commercial purpose would mean 'profit-making activity on a large scale', Kalpavruksha Charitable Trust v. Toshniwal Brothers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd., (2000) 1 SCC 512....
Lists
Lists, means lists prepared by the Government of India from time to time for purposes of making provision for the reservation of appointments or posts in favour of backward classes of citizens which, in the opinion of that Government, are not adequately represented in the services under the Government of India and any local or other authority within the territory of India or under the control of the Government of India. [National Commission for backward classes, 1993 (27 of 1993), s. 2(c)]...
Minority Educational Institution
Minority Educational Institution, means college or institution (other than a University) established or maintained by a person or group of persons from amongst the minorities. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(g)]...
Qualification
Qualification, means a degree or any other qualification awarded by a university. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(i)]Qualification, that which makes any person fit to do a certain act; also, abatement, diminution.An annual Act used to be passed indemnifying persons who had omitted to qualify themselves for certain offices and employments, and to extend the time limited for those purposes. See 26 & 27 Vict. c. 107. But by 29 & 30 Vict. c. 22, it is rendered unnecessary to make and subscribe declarations theretofore required as a qualification for offices and employments....
Scheduled University
Scheduled University, means a University specified in the schedule. [National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, 2004, s. 2(j)]...
Technical education
Technical education, has the meaning assigned to it in clause (g) of s. 2 of the All India Council for Technical Education Act, 1987 (52 of 1987). [National Commission for Minority Educational Institution Act, 2004, s. 2(k)]Technical education, includes medical education, Nachane Ashwini Shivram v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1998 Bom 1. [See also Constitution of India, Art. 371(2)(c), List III, Entry 25]...
Backward classes
Backward classes, It is necessary to satisfy two conditions to attract clause (4) of Article 16, namely,(i) a class of citizens is backward, i.e., socially and educationally, in the sense explained in Balaji's case ([1963] Supp 1 SCR 439); and(ii) the said class is not adequately represented in the services under the State. It is held in Balaji's case that backwardness under Article 15(4) must be social and political and that social backwardness was in the ultimate analysis the result of poverty to a very large extent, Triloki Nath Tikku v. State of Jammu & Kashmir, AIR 1967 SC 1283: (1967) 2 SCR 265. [Constitution of India, Art. 16(4)]Backward classes, means socially and educationally backward classes within the territory of India, Constitution of India, Article 340.Backward classes, are classes slow in development, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 108.Backward classes means such backward classes of citizens other than the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, as may be specified by...
Letters of marque
Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by the Secretaries of State, with the approbation of the Sovereign and Council; and usually in time of war, etc., ex Merc. 173. The words marque and reprisal are used as synonymous terms, although the latter is, strictly, taking in return; the former passing the frontiers in order to such taking, Du Cange, tit. 'Marcha.'These letters are grantable by the law of nations, wherever the subjects of one state are oppressed and injured by those of another, and justice is denied by that state to which the oppressor belongs. In this case letters of marque and reprisal may be obtained in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of the offending state, until satisfaction be made, wherever they happen to be found; and, in fact, this custom seems dictated by nature. The necessity, however, is obvious of calling in the sovereign power to determine when ...
Government
Government, 'the Government', shall include both the Central Government and any State Government. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(23)]That form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed; the state itself.The structure of principles and rules determining how a State or organisation is regulated; the sovereign proper in a nation or state; an organisation through which a body of people exercise political authority; the machinery by which foreign prover is exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.It means, in relation to any major port, the Central Government and, in relation to any other port, the State Government. [Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948), s. 2 (d)]The expression 'Government' in s. 21(12)(a), IPC, 1860 must either mean the Central Government or the Government of a State, R.S. Nayak v. A.R. Antulay, AIR 1984 SC 684: (1984) 2 SCC 183: (1984) 2 SCR 495.Includes Legislative, Executive and Judiciar...
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