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Heavy package

Heavy package, s. 2(a) 'heavy package' means a package or other object weighing not less than one metric ton, which is equal to one thousand kilograms or 2204.6 standard pounds or 26.8 standard maunds. [Marking of Heavy Packages Act, 1951 (39 of 1951), s. 2(a)]...


False package

False package, means any package which does not conform to the provisions of this Act or any rule or order made thereunder in relation to such package. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(f)]...


Commodity in packaged form

Commodity in packaged form, means commodity packaged, whether in any bottle, tin, wrapper or otherwise, in units suitable for sale, whether wholesale or retail. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, (60 of 1976), s. 2(b)]...


Package or parcel

Package or parcel, means the singular and not the plural, and it contemplates each individual 'parcel' or 'package', Radha Krishna Nathani v. Union of India, AIR 1957 Pat 231: (1957) Pat LR 63....


appointment package

appointment package The letter and documents that tell an applicant of the date of the immigrant visa interview. It includes forms that the applicant must complete before the interview and instructions for how to get everything ready for the interview. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


pre-packaged bankruptcy

pre-packaged bankruptcy : a bankruptcy plan that has been negotiated between the debtor and creditors prior to the debtor's filing for bankruptcy ...


packaged

Enclosed in a package2 or protective covering as packaged cereals...


Package

Package, include a wrapper, box, carton, tin or other container. [Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, s. 2(i)]Includes a box, carton, tin or other container. [Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (60 of 1986), s. 2(e)]Includes any case, box container covering folder, receptacle, vessel, casket, bottle, wrapper, label, band, ticket, reel, frame, capsule, cap, lid, stopper and cork. [Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 (48 of 1999), s. 2(1)(i)]Includes any case, box, container, covering, folder, receptacle, vessel, casket, bottle, wrapper, label, band, ticket, reel, frame, capsule, cap, lid, stopper and cork. [Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), s. 2(1)(q)]Means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper or other thing in which an insecticide is placed or packed. [Insecticides Act, 1968...


Package, Seavage, Bailage, and Portage

Package, Seavage, Bailage, and Portage, duties anciently charged in the port of London on the goods imported and exported by aliens, or by denizens being the sons of aliens.The Act 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 66, authorized the Lords of the Treasury to purchase these duties from the city. This was done at an expense of about 1,40,000l., and the duties were abolished, McCull. Com. Dict...


Allowance

Allowance [fr. locare, Lat.; allocare, allogare, It.; alogar, Prov.; louer, allouer, Fr., to place or assign], a deduction, an average payment, a portion.Also in selling goods, or in paying duties upon them, certain deductions are made from their weights, depending on the nature of the packages in which they are inclosed, and which are regulated in most instances by the custom of merchants, and the rules laid down by public offices. These allowances, as they are termed are distinguished by the epithets draft, tare, tret, and cloff.Draft is a deduction from the original or gross weight of goods, and is substracted before the tare is taken off.Tare is an allowance for the weight of the bag, box, cask, or other package in which goods are weighed.Real, or open tare, is the actual weight of the package.Customary tare is, as its name implies, an established allowance for the weight of the package.Computed tare is an estimated allowance agreed upon at the time.Average tare is when a few packa...


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