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Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...
Person interested
Person interested, includes a person engaged in, or in promoting, research in the same field as that to which the invention relates. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2(t)]The definition of the 'person interested' must be liberally construed so as to include a body, local authority, or a company for whose benefit the land is acquired and who is bound under an agreement to pay the compensation, Himalaya Tiles and Merbles (P) Ltd. v. Francis Victor Countinho, AIR 1980 SC 1118 (1120): (1980) 3 SCC 233: (1980) 3 SCR 235. [Land Acquisition Act, 1844, s. 18]The expression 'person interested' included all persons claiming an interest in compensation to be made on account of the acquisition of land under this Act; and a person shall be deemed to be interested in land if he is interested in an easement affecting the land, General Government Servants Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. v. Wahaz Uddin, AIR 1981 SC 866 (867, 868): (1981) 2 SCC 352: (1981) 3 SCR 46.A person claiming interest in the ...
Person aggrieved
Person aggrieved, does not include a mere busy-body, but refers to one who has a genuine grievance on account of some order prejudicially affecting his interests, K.C. Pazhanimala v. State of Kerala, AIR 1969 Ker 154: (1968) ILR 2 Ker 422; P.S.R. Sadanatham v. Arunachalam, (1980) SCC (Cr) 649; V.D. Kumarappan v. Secy, Home Department, AIR 1960 Ker 378; Ashok Autoservice of Belim v. Union of India, AIR 1968 Goa 67; Ebrahim Aboobaker v. Custodian General of Evacuee Property, AIR 1952 SC 319; Custodian of Evacuees Property v. Ahad Noga, AIR 1957 J&K 50.If a person is a member of a society and is wrongfully excluded, then he is a 'person aggrieved', Chapadgaon Vividh Karyakan Seva Sahakari Society, Chapadgaon v. Collector of Ahmednagar, (1989) 3 Bom CR 641 [Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, s. 144]; Adi Pherozshab Gandhi v. H.M. Seervai, AIR 1971 SC 385; Mohammed Sharfuddin v. R.P. Singh, AIR 1957 Pat 235; Northern Plastics Ltd. v. Hindustan Photo Film Mfg. Co. Ltd., (1997) 4 S...
Any person
Any person, the effect of the 1994 amendment on s. 147 is unambiguous. Where earlier, the words 'any person' could be held not to include the owner of the goods or his authorised representative travelling in the goods vehicle, Parliament has now made it clear that such a construction is no longer possible. The scope of this rationale does not, however, extend to cover the class of cases where gratuitous passengers for whom no insurance policy was envisaged, and for whom no insurance premium was paid, employed the goods vehicle as a medium of conveyance, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Baljit Kaur, (2004) 2 SCC 1 (5): AIR 2004 SC 1340. [Motor Vehicles Act, s. 147(1)(b) (as amended in 1994)]The expression 'any person' can be restricted to those on the managerial or administrative staff only. One cannot arbitrarily cut down the amplitude of an expression used by the legislature, Central Bank of India v. Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 12 (23): (1960) 1 SCR 200. (Banking Regulation Act, 1949, s. 10)Th...
Young person
Young person. In the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), this expression (s. 107) ' means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years and is under seventeen years.'A young person within the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42), is a person who is under the age of eighteen years (s. 5). See CHILD-REN.Means a person under the age of twenty years. [Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 (93 of 1956), s. 2 (c)]Means a person who has completed fourteen years of age but has not completed eighteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employ-ment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2(q)]Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2(d)]Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951), s. 3(J)]...
Accused person, a person accused of an offence
Accused person, 'a person accused of an offence', the expression, 'accused person' in s. 24 and the expression 'a person accused of any offence' have the same connotation, and describe the person against whom evidence is sought to be led in a criminal proceeding. The expression 'accused of any offence' is descriptive of the person against whom evidence relating to information alleged to be given by him is made provable by s. 27 of the Evidence Act. It does not predicate a formal accusation against him at the time of making the statement sought to be proved, as a condition of its applicability, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Deoman Upadhyaya, AIR 1960 SC 1125 (1129, 1132): (1960) 1 SCR 14. [Evidence Act, (1 of 1872), ss. 24, 25, 27]...
Any person aggrieved
Any person aggrieved, the words 'any person aggrieved' in s. 24 of the Act can only mean a person whose properties have been declared to be evacuee properties by the Custodian, or a person who moved the Custodian to get the properties so declared or any other such aggrieved person. The words 'any person aggrieved' in the context cannot include any Custodian as defined in the Act, Md. Sharfuddin v. R.P. Singh, AIR 1961 SC 1312 (1314): (1962) 1 SCR 239. (Administration of Evacuee Property, Act, 1950 s. 24)...
Juristic person
Juristic person, is not roped in any defined circle, with the changing thoughts, changing needs of the society, fresh juristic personalities were created from time to time, (Analytical and Historical Jurisprudence, 3rd Edn., p. 357).Juristic person, the very words 'juristic person' connote recognition of an entity to be in law a person which otherwise it is not. In other words, it is not an individual natural person but an artifi-cially created person which is to be recognised to be in law as such, Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee v. Som Nath Dass, (2000) 4 SCC 146: AIR 2000 SC 1421 (1427)....
Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...
Personal effects
Personal effects, generally include such tangible property as is worn or carried about the person, or to designate articles associated with the person. Personal effects are used to designate articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor, or such tangible property as attends the person, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 31, p. 277.In the unabridged edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, at page 1075, the expression is given the following meaning: Personal effects, privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual. In Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, at page 1301, the expression is assigned the following meaning: Personal effects, articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor. In Cyclopedic Law Dictionary, Third Edition, at page 832, the expression 'personal effects' witho...
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