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Neptunicentric

As seen from Neptune or having Neptune as a center as Neptunicentric longitude or force...


Cyclops

One of a race of giants sons of Neptune and Amphitrite having but one eye and that in the middle of the forehead They were fabled to inhabit Sicily and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan under Mt Etna...


Hippocampus

A fabulous monster with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish Hippocampus brevirostris seen in Pompeian paintings attached to the chariot of Neptune...


Neptune

The son of Saturn and Ops the god of the waters especially of the sea He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter...


Nereid

A sea nymph one of the daughters of Nereus who were attendants upon Neptune and were represented as riding on sea horses sometimes with the human form entire and sometimes with the tail of a fish...


Pluto

The son of Saturn and Rhea brother of Jupiter and Neptune the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World...


Proteus

A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will Hence one who easily changes his appearance or principles...


Sea god

A marine deity a fabulous being supposed to live in or have dominion over the sea or some particular sea or part of the sea as Neptune...


Affairs of a company have been completely wound up

Affairs of a company have been completely wound up, The phrase 'the affairs of a company have been completely wound up' significant. It shows that the expressions 'winding up of a company' and 'winding up of the affairs of a company' convey the same sense, for we think that the phrase 'the affairs of a company' means the business affairs of the company, The Neptune Assurance Company Ltd. v. Union of India (1973) 2 SCR 940: AIR 1973 SC 602: (1973) 1 SCC 310. [General Insurance (Emergency Provisions) Act (17 of 1971) s. 15(a)]...


Company

Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled a Joint Stock Company.A company has its origin either (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with which, as authorizing an undertaking of a public nature such as a railway, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), is necessarily incorporated; or (3) in registration under the Companies Acts, 1862 and subsequent Acts, now consolidated into the (English) Companies Act, 1925 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23).By s. 13 of the Act of 1925 (1) on the registration of the memorandum of a company the registrar shall certify under his hand that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the company is limited. (2) From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificat...


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