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oil silk

Silk treated with oil to make it water tight it is used to make raincoats...


Raw silk

Raw silk, is thin and fine filament of silkworm. Whatever has been eaten by the silkworm, it brings out as a liquid which gets solidified on coming into contact with oxygen.The solidified material is the silk filament. The silkworm spins the silk filament around itself as a protective shell and this is called cocoon. Each such cocoon is nothing but a continuous length of the silk filament of about 500 metres.The silk filament in a continuous unbroken length is capable of being reeled out only before the moth comes out. So the pupa inside the cocoon is not allowed to undergo metamorphosis, and is destroyed by throwing the cocoon into hot water. The thread then reeled out of the cocoon on yanks either in country charkhas or filature basin is the silk yarn, and is called raw silk, State of Karnataka v. BV Aswathanarayana Setty, (1980) 2 Kant LJ 361 (DB)....


Oil vanaspati

Oil vanaspati, vanaspati, is essentially an oil al-though it is a different kind of oil than that oil (be it rapeseed oil, cotton-seed oil, ground-nut oil, soya bean oil or any other oil) which forms its basic ingredient. Oil will remain oil if it retains its essential properties and merely because it has been subjected to certain processes would not convert it into a different substance. The word 'oil' is not defined in the Act and therefore, its dictionary meaning may well be pressed into service for interpreting the term 'oil mill'. According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966 Edn.) the word 'oil' has different connotations in different situations but in the context of item 5 aforesaid the meaning to be given to would be: Any of various substances that typically are unctuous viscous combustible liquids or solids easily liquefiable on warming and are not miscible with water but are soluble in ether, naphtha, and often alcohol and other organic solvents, that leave ...


Rayon or artificial silk fabrics

Rayon or artificial silk fabrics, 'rayon or Artificial Silk Fabrics' includes varieties of fabrics manu-factured either wholly or partly from rayon or artificial silk but do not include any such fabrics... (iii) if it contains cotton and less than 60 per cent by weight of rayon or artificial silk;...' Union of India v. Ahmedabad Manufacturing and Calico Printing Co. Ltd., AIR 1986 SC 121 (122): (1985) 3 SCC 693: (1985) Supp 2 SCR 537. [Central Excise and Salt Act Act, (1 of 1944), Sch. I, Item No. 22]...


Vanaspati and oil

Vanaspati and oil, Vanaspati, is essentially an oil although it is a different kind of oil than than oil (be it rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, ground-nut oil, soya-been oil or any other oil) which forms its basic ingredient. Oil will remain oil if it retains its essential properties and merely because it has been subjected to certain processes would not convert it into a different substance. In other words, although certain additions have been made to and opera-tions carried out on oil, it will still be classified as oil essential characteristics have undergone a change so that it would be a misnomer to call it oil as understood in ordinary parlance, Champaklal H. Thakkar v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1980 SC 1889 (1891): (1980) 4 SCC 329. (Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Sch. II, Item 5)...


Silk

Silk, means natural or real silk, or something of which natural or real silk is a component, AIR 1958 Ker 149 (151)....


Oil seeds

Oil seeds, the conclusion that jeera, dhania, panmohuri, methi and postak are 'oilseeds' is correct. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary (7th Edition) edited by Arthur and Elizabeth Rose, from which the following informations regarding the seeds in question were available: Dhania (coriander seed); botanical name coriandrum sativum: Coriander oil is distilled from the coriander sativum a colourless or slightly yellowish liquid having aromatic odour. Jeera (cumin seed); Cumin oil is distilled from the cumin seed and is used for medicine, flavouring and perfumery. It is a colourless or yellowish, limpid liquid having characteristic odour of cumin. Postak (poppy seed); botanical name papover somni-ferum: Poppy oil is a very pale, golden yellow liquid with pleasant taste and odour extracted from the seeds and it is used as food oil, artist's colours, varnishes and lubrication. Methi (Fenugreek); botanical name trigonella Foenum-graecum (vide p. 164, Vol. 9 of the Encyclopedia Britannica). It ...


Groundnut oil

Groundnut oil, the processing consists in the non-oily content of the raw oil being separated and removed, rendering the oily content of the oil 100 per cent. For this reason refined oil continues to be groundnut oil within the meaning of rules 5(1)(k) and 18(2) of the Madras General Sales Tax (Turnover and Assessment) Rules, 1939 notwith-standing that such oil does not possess the characteristic colour, or taste, odour, etc. of the raw groundnut oil, Tungabhadra Industries Ltd. v. Commercial Tax Officer, AIR 1961 SC 412: (1961) 2 SCR 14. [Madras General Sale Tax (Turnover and Assessment, Rules (1939), R. 18(2), s. (1) (k)]...


Edible oil seed

Edible oil seed, the phrase 'edible oil-seed' mean only an oil seed which is edible as an oil-seed. Cotton-seed, not being edible, falls outside theclass of 'edible oil-seed', Girdhar Mal v. Dev Raj, AIR 1963 SC 1587 (1590). [Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946, ss. 5, 3, 2]...


Hydrogenated groundnut oil

Hydrogenated groundnut oil, Hydrogenated oil continues to be 'groundnut oil' notwithstanding the processing which is merely for the purpose of rendering the oil more stable thus improving its keeping qualities for those who desire to consume groundnut oil, Tungabadhra Industries Ltd. v. CCE, AIR 1961 SC 412: (1961) 2 SCR 14....


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