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May make such enquiry and pass such order thereon

May make such enquiry and pass such order thereon, The expression 'may make such enquiry and pass such order thereon' does not confer any absolute discretion on the Commissioner. In exercise of the power the Commissioner must bring to bear an unbiased mind, consider impartially the objections raised by the aggrieved party, and decide the dispute according to procedure consistent with the principles of natural justice: he cannot permit his judgment to be influenced by matters not disclosed to the assessee, nor by dictation of another authority, Sirpur Paper Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner of Wealth Tax, AIR 1970 SC 1520: (1970) 1 SCC 795: (1971) 1 SCR 304...


Marshalling

Marshalling, the act of arranging or of putting into proper order.The doctrine of marshalling assets and securities depends upon the principle that a person, having two funds out of which to satisfy his demands, shall not, by his election, prejudice a person who has only one such fund. If, therefore, one who has a claim upon two funds resorts to the only fund upon which another has a claim, the latter stands in his place for so much against the fund to which otherwise he could not have access: the object being that every claimant shall be satisfied as far as, by any arrangement consistent with the nature of the several claims, the property which they seek to affect can be applied in satisfaction of such claims.In the administration of the estate of deceased persons, marshalling consists of arranging the assets so as to give effect to the priority of debts, as to legal assets on the one hand, and to the order of assets on the other. now that all the assets are liable to be applied for t...


Machinery

Machinery. As to the riotous destruction of machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 11, as amended. As to the fencing of machinery in factories, see FACTORY.Chimneys which are merely solid structure built upon the ground whose part do not move at all cannot be considered to be 'machinery', Municipal Council v. M/s. Birla Jute Manufacturing Company Ltd., AIR 1983 MP 161 (166). [M.P. Nagriya Statewar Sampati Kar Adhiniyam, (14 of 1964), s. 5(ii)]The air cooling plant is also liable to be classified as machinery, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Blue Stars Ltd., AIR 1995 Bom 38 (40). [Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, (3 of 1888), Sch. H, Item 50]Includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transformed, transmitted or applied. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (j)]The word 'machinery' when used in ordinary language prima facie, means some mechanical contrivances which, by themselves or in com...


Inquiries

Inquiries. Under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921 (11 Geo. 5, c. 7), upon resolution by both Houses of Parliament, His Majesty or a Secretary of State may appoint a tribunal with all the powers of the High Court, or in Scotland the Court of Session, to inquire into a definite matter of urgent public importance under various statutes. Departmental inquiries may or must in certain circumstances be instituted, e.g., inquiries under the Factory, Local Government, Merchant Shipping (Wreck Inquiries), Housing, Town and Country Planning, Road Traffic and other Acts.The term 'inquiries', as used in Item 94 of List I and Item 45 of List III, without any limitations upon their nature or specification of their character or objects, is wide enough to embrace every kind of inquiry, State of Karnataka v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 68: (1978) 2 SCR 1: (1977) 4 SCC 608....


Freemasons

Freemasons, members of the body of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England-the oldest and most famous of all secret societies. Its objects, of course, are unknown except to the members, but are believed to be of a charitable nature. Lodges of Freemasons are excepted from the operation of the Unlawful Societies Act, 1799, and the Seditious Meetings Act, 1817, if registered annually: see ss. 5-7 of the Act of 1799 and s. 26 of the Act, 1817....


Equitable claims and defences at Common Law

Equitable claims and defences at Common Law; The (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (ss 83-86), enabled any defendant to plead the facts which would entitle him, if judgment were obtained against him, to relief in Equity from such judgment on equitable grounds, by way of defence, and also enabled the plaintiff to avoid such defence by a replication upon equitable grounds. A plea on equitable grounds was good at Law only where an absolute and unconditional injunction wold be granted in Equity.The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 36, and follow-ing sections, reproducing s. 24 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, has combined the jurisdiction of the Courts of Common Law and Equity so that legal and equitable remedies may be granted in the same Court but without affecting the nature of the rights. The object is to avoid multiplicity of actions and it does not confer a new jurisdiction (The James Westall, 1905, P., p. 51), and if there is any conflict or variance between the rules...


Praxinoscope

An instrument similar to the phenakistoscope for presenting to view or projecting upon a screen images the natural motions of real objects...


Light

That agent force or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight objects are rendered visible or luminous...


Know nothing

A member of a secret political organization in the United States the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office...


Docimacy

The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature quality etc of objects as of metals or ores of medicines or of facts pertaining to physiology...



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