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Natural vegetation, natural vegetation means self-sown or planted; land not cultivated. Uncultivated or undomesticated plants or animals, Bhavani Tea and Produce Co. Ltd. v. State of Kerala, (1991) 2 SCC 463 (481)...
Kermes
The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect Kermes ilices formerly Coccus ilicis allied to the cochineal insect and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean also the dye obtained from them They are round about the size of a pea contain coloring matter analogous to carmine and are used in dyeing They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature and were used in medicine...
Vegetable
Vegetable, 'Vegetables' understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless we say that agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of that industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, (1992) 1 SCC 418: AIR 1992 SC 224.The word 'vegetables' does not include Pan (betel leaves). Therefore betel leaves are taxable under the provisions of the Act, Ram Bux Chaturbhuj v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1963 SC 351 (352). [Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954 (29 of 1954), s. 4]Vegetable, cannot be given the comprehensive meaning as it bears in natural history, and it must be construed in popular sense to denote such classes of vegetable matter which are grown in kitchen gardens or in a farm and are used for table, State of West Bengal v. Washi Ahmed, AIR 1977 SC 1638: (1977) 2 SCC 246: 1977 SCC (Tax) 278: (1977) 3 SCR 149: (1977) 2 SCJ 222: 39 STC 378: (1977) 1 SCWR 604: (1977) UJ (SC) 268: (1977) Tax LR 2042: (1977) UPTC 296; Ramavtar v. Assistan...
Waste lands
Waste lands, the expression 'waste lands' has a well-defined legal connotation. It means lands which are desolate, abandoned, and not fit ordinarily for use for building purposes. In Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edn., Vol. 2, p. 2510, the meaning of the word 'waste' is given as: 1. Waste or desert land, uninhabited or sparsely inhabited and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region; 2. A piece of land not cultivated or used for any purpose, and producing little or no herbage or wood. In legal use, a piece of such land not in any man's occupation but lying common. 3. A devastated region. In the sequence in which the expression 'waste lands' appears in the two relevant sections, it cannot but have its ordinary etymological meaning as given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary i.e., land lying desolate or useless, without trees or grass or vegetation, not capable of any use. In Rajanand Brahma Shah v. State of Uttar Pradesh, ((1967) 1 SCR 373: AIR 1967 SC 1081: (1967) 2 SCJ 8...
Wasteland
Wasteland, the definition of 'wasteland' is an inclusive definition and only exception is incultivated land included in the holding of such proprietors, Gaon Sabha v. Nathi, (2004) 12 SCC 555. [Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, s. 7(1) Expl. (1)Q, 7(r)]Means lands which are desolate, abandoned, and not fit ordinarily for building purposes; land lying desolate or useless without tress or grass or vegetation not capable of any use, grasslands or hilly tracks were not wastelands. They were productive lands in the sense that grass grew naturally and so they were not desolate, abandoned or barren wastelands with no vegetation, State of Gujarat v. Gujarat Revenue Tribunal, (1980) 1 SCR 233....
Habitat
Habitat, 'habitat' includes land, water or vegetation which is the natural home of any wild animal. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(15)...
Forest land
Forest land, without evidence to show that forest land had been cleared and prepared or earmarked for agricultural purposes, it must be treated as prima facie non-agricultural land, Controller of Estate Duty v. V. Venugopala Varma Rajah, AIR 1977 SC 121: (1976) 4 SCC 3: (1977) 1 SCR 346.The term 'forest land', occurring in s. 2, will not only include 'forest' as understood in the dictionary sense, but also any area recorded as forest in the Government record irrespective of the ownership, T.N. Godavarman v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 1228 (1230). [Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, s. 2]See also W.L. Wadhera v. Union of India, (2002) 9 SCC 108: AIR 2002 SC 1913.The expression 'forest land' should be given an extended meaning to cover a track of land covered with trees, shrubs, vegetation and undergrowth under mingled with trees with pastures, be it of natural growth or man made forestation. Samatha v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1997 SC 3297 (3380). [Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, s....
Complete feedingstuffs
Complete feedingstuffs, means mixtures or products of vegetable or animal origin in their natural state, fresh or preserved, or products derived from the industrial processing thereof, or organic or inorganic substances whether or not containing additives, for oral animal feeding in the form of complete feedingstuffs or supplementary feedingstuffs, Art. 2(g) of EC Council Directive 70/524 (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 1023, p. 642....
Accession
Accession [fr. accedo, Lat.], addition, arriving at, the commencement of a sovereign's reign; also the absolute or conditional acceptance by a nation of a treaty already concluded between other countries. The accession of a sovereign takes place immediately upon the death of the preceding monarch. See BILL OF RIGHTS.Accession, means property by. The doctrine of property arising from accession is grounded on the right of occupancy, and derived from the Roman Law; thus if any given corporeal substance receive an accession, either by natural or artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals, the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into utensils, the original owner of the thing was entitled by his right of possession to the property of it under its improved state; but if the thing itself by such operation was changed into a different species, as by making wine, oil, or bread out of another's grapes, olives, or wheat (specificatio, Lat.), it...
Protooumlrganism
An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom...
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