Phase Displacement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: phase displacementPhase displacement
A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier An inductance would cause a lag a capacity would cause an advance in phase...
Phase rule
A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium discovered by Prof J Willard Gibbs It may be stated thus The degree of variableness number of degrees of freedom of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases plus two Thus if the components be salt and water and the phases salt ice saturated solution and vapor the system is invariant that is there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in equilibrium If only three phases be considered the system is univariant that is the fixing of one condition as temperature determines the others...
Displaced debtor
Displaced debtor, S. 2(9) of the Displaced Persons (Debts Adjustment) Act 70 of 1951 defines a 'displaced debtor' as meaning 'a displaced person from whom a debt is due or is being claimed', Sukh Lal v. State Bank of India, AIR 1967 SC 543: (1967) 1 SCR 317....
Displaced person
Displaced person, According to the definition of the term in East Punjab Act XXXVI of 1949, a 'displaced person' means 'a landholder in the territories now comprised in the Province of Punjab in Pakistan or a person of the Punjab extraction who holds land in the (West Pakistan) and who has since the last day of March 1947, abandoned or has been made to abandon his land in the said territories on account of civil disturbances or the fear of such distur-bances, or the partition of the country', Munshi Ram v. Financial Commissioner, (1979) 1 SCC 471: AIR 1979 SC 588: (1979) 2 SCR 846.Displaced person means any person who, on account of civil disturbances or of the fear of such disturbances in any area now forming part of Bangladesh, has, after the 14th day of April, 1957 but before the 25th day of March, 1971, left, or has been displaced from, his place of residence in such area and who has since then been residing in India. [Pharmacy Act, 1948, s. 32B(1)(c) Expl. (i)]...
Phase splitter
A device by which a single phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase It is used in starting single phase induction motors...
Phasing
Pertaining to phase or differences of phase...
Displacement
The act of displacing or the state of being displaced a putting out of place...
Displaced from land, in consequence of the com-pulsory acquisition
Displaced from land, in consequence of the com-pulsory acquisition, A person is displaced from land in consequence of the compulsory acquisition of his interest if, and only if, he gives up possession (1) on being required to do so by the acquiring authority, (2) on completion of the acquisition, or (3) where the acquiring authority permits him to remain in possession of the land under a tenancy or licence of a kind not making him a tenant as defined in the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1986 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 399, p. 217....
Displaced Person and refugee
Displaced Person and refugee, the expression 'dis-placed person' or the word 'refugee' has been used in the relevant enactments with reference to a person who has migrated to India as a result of disturbances or fear of disturbances or the partition of the country. Therefore, if a person had died before the disturbances took place or he had never migrated to India as a result of the disturbances and he died before such migration he could not come within the meaning of the expression 'displaced person' or the word 'refugee' under the relevant statutory enactment's, Chief Settlement Commissioner v. Om Prakash, AIR 1969 SC 33: (1968) 3 SCR 655. [Punjab (Refugees Registration of Land Claims) Act, 1948, (12 of 1948)]...
Phase angle
The angle expressing phase relation...
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