Packing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: packingJury-packing
Jury-packing, means the act or an instance of contriving to have a jury composed of persons who are predisposed toward one side or the other. Also termed packing a jury, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862....
Packed parcels
Packed parcels, the name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones (each bearing a different address) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor (a carrier), who unites them into one for his own profit at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together. The charging by a railway company of a higher rate for 'packed' than other parcels has been determined frequently to be illegal, see G.W. Ry. Co. v. Sutton, (1869) LR 4 HL 226....
Packing
Packing. False packing of hay and straw in the metropolis is penal under the (English) Hay and Straw Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 114), which inflicts a penalty of 10l. It only applies to the County of London. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Hay.'...
pack
pack : to influence the composition of (as a political agency) so as to bring about a desired result [ a jury] ...
Pack horse
See under 2d Pack...
Packing
The act or process of one who packs...
Pack saddle
See under 2d Pack...
Pack of wool
Pack of wool, a horse load, which consists of 17 stone and 2 pounds, or 240 pounds weight, Fleta, I. lib. 2, c. xii....
Manufacture
Manufacture, implies a change but every change is not manufacture. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation, a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Hindustan Poles Corporation v. Commissioner of Central Excise, (2006) 4 SCC 85: (2006) 4 JT 185: (2006) 3 SCALE 601: (2006) 4 SLT 445: (2006) 3 SCJ 645: (2006) 6 SCJ D 230: (2006) 145 STC 625: (2006) 196 ELT 400.Manufacture, implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the result of treatment, labour and manipulation. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation; a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Union of India v. Delhi Cloth and General Mills, AIR 1963 SC 791.Implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the result of treatment, labour and manipulation. But something more is necessary and there must be transfo...
Paper
Paper, includes vellum parchment or any other material or which an instrument may be written, Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1999, s. 2(xxvi).Paper. As to the paper on which proceedings in the Supreme Court must be printed, see PRINTING.It includes vellum, parchment or any other material on which an instrument may be written. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (18)]The word 'paper' admittedly not having been defined either in the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly or generally understood. The said word which is derived from the name of reedy plant papyrus and grows abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made ...
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