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Place of business, includes a warehouse godown or other place where a dealer stores his goods and any place where the dealer keeps his books of accounts. [Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(18)]Place of business, includes--(i) in any case where a dealer carries on business through an agent by (whatever name called), the place of business of such agent;(ii) a warehouse, godown or other place where a dealer stores his goods; and(iii) a place where a dealer keeps his books of account. [Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (74 of 1956), s. 2 (dd)]Place of business, means any place where a dealer carries on business and includes:(a) a warehouse, godown or other place where a dealer stores or processes his goods;(b) any place where a dealer produces or manufactures goods;(c) any place where a dealer keeps his book of account,(d) any vehicle or vessel or any other carrier where in the goods are stored or used for transporting the goods;(e) any place of business of any agent by whatever name c...
Place of residence
Place of residence, the expression 'place of resi-dence' connotes a place where a person has his dwelling house, which need not necessarily be permanent or exclusive. A person may have more places of residence than one at a given time. A place occupied by a person with the intention of setting up a fixed, though not permanent, abode, would be deemed to be a place of residence. Sojourn for a purely temporary purpose will not constitute residence, and the place of sojourn will not be deemed a place of residence within the meaning of the Act: but where a person possesses establishment at more places than oneand spends time more or less considerable in all those places, as exigencies of his occupation, vocation or fancy demand, he would be deemed to have a place of residence at each of those places. The words of the definition in s. 2(10) read with s. 2(6) are sufficiently wide to include the case of a person who had a place of residence in India as well as a place of residence in an area ...
Place
Place, denotes an area within known boundary areas notified to be within two different boundaries cannot be same place, Bajaj Plastic Ltd. v. Collector Central Excise, (1987) 1 Bom LR 566: (1987) Mah LR 681.Place, is not a synonym for country and it is one of the rules of interpretation that surplusages are not used in enactments. The word 'place' definitely connotes a different meaning from the word 'country'. It means that where the product of one town is being described as the product of another town, Dharam Deo Gupta v. State, AIR 1958 All 865.Place, may be a large area; all that is necessary is that the place should be sufficiently so defined that the public is reasonably notified of its extent. There is not much distinction between a place and an area, and so long as it is clearly specified and well-defined in the order, there is no illegality in including an area as large as a district within the scope of an order. The public generally can be subjected to the inhabitation irresp...
Place of public worship
Place of public worship, means a place, by whatever name known, which is used as a place of public religious worship or which is dedicated generally to, or is used generally by persons professing any religion or belonging to any religious denomina-tion or any section thereof, for the performance of any religious service, or for offering prayers therein, and includes-(i) all lands and subsidiary shrines appurtenant or attached to any such place.(ii) a privately owned place of worship which is, fact, allowed by the owner thereof to be used as a place of public worship; and(iii) such land or subsidiary shrine appurtenant to such privately owned place of worship as is allowed by the owner thereof to be used as a place of public religious worship. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (d)]...
Populous place
Populous place, was defined by s. 32 of the (English) Licensing Act, 1874, as 'any area with a population of not less than 1,000 which by reason of the density of such population the county licensing committee may by order determine to be a populous place.' By s. 3 of this Act the closing hours were made different in towns and 'populous places' from those (1) in London and (2) elsewhere that in London or in towns and populous places. The above definition was repealed and substantially re-enacted by (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, but was repealed by the Licensing Act, 1921. A 'populous place' no longer exists in licensing law....
Taking out to a place outside India
Taking out to a place outside India, the expression 'taking out to a place outside India' would also mean a place in high seas. It is beyond the territorial waters in India. High seas would also mean a place outside India, if it is beyond the territorial waters of India. Therefore, if the goods were taken out to the high seas outside territorial waters of India, they will come within the ambit of expression 'taking out to a place outside India', Collector of Customs v. Sun Industries, 1988 Supp SCC 342(346). [Customs and Central Excise Duties Drawback Rule, 1971, s. 2(c)]...
time, place, or manner restriction
time, place, or manner restriction : a restriction on the time, place, or manner of expression that is justified when it is neutral as to content and serves a significant government interest and leaves open ample alternative channels of communication [an injunction excluding demonstrators from the front of the building was held to be a reasonable time, place, or manner restriction] called also time, place, and manner restriction ...
Destination, place of (carriage by air)
Destination, place of (carriage by air), the 'place of destination' will be the place of destination mentioned in the contract of carriage and, in the case of successive carriage, the ultimate place of destination set out in that contract, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1545, p. 766....
Place of birth, domicile
Place of birth, domicile, the term 'place of birth' occurs in clause (1) of Article 15 but not 'domicile'. If a comparison is made between Article 15(1) and Article 16(2) of the Constitution of India, it would appear that whereas the former refers to 'place of birth' alone, the latter refers to both 'domicile' and 'residence' apart from place of birth, Saurabh Chaudri v. Union of India, (2003) 11 SC 146 (162). [Constitution of India, Art. 15(1)]...
Place of public entertainment
Place of public entertainment, includes any place to which the public are admitted and in which an entertainment is provided or held. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (c)]Means a lodging house, boarding and lodging house or residential hostel and includes any eating house or other place in which any kind of liquor or intoxicating drug is supplied (such as taven or a shop where beer, spirit, arracact, toddy, ganja, bhang or opium is supplied) to the public for consumption in or near such place. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(l2)]...
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