Post Impressionism - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: post impressionismPost impressionism
In the broadest sense the theory or practice of any of several groups of painters of the early 1900s or of these groups taken collectively whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo impressionism In a strict sense the term post impressionism is used to denote the effort at self expression rather than representation shown in the work of Ceacutezanne Matisse etc but it is more broadly used to include cubism the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only and futurism a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions In practice these theories and methods of the post impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one ...
Cubism
A movement or phase in post impressionism which see below...
Futurism
A movement or phase of post impressionism which see below...
Impressionability
The quality of being impressionable...
Impressionable
Liable or subject to impression capable of being molded susceptible impressible as a bad influence on impressionable youths...
Impressionableness
The quality of being impressionable...
Post-dated cheque
Post-dated cheque, are not invalid, but the banker should not pay such a cheque if presented before the date it bears. If therefore, a cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the banker knows it to be post-dated, and even if it has been presented before the date and refused payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 3(1), p. 143.Means a cheque must not be post-dated, that is, dated after the day on which it is presented for payment to the drawee branch. Post-dated cheques present for more difficulties to the banker than antedated cheques. There are practical difficulties rather than legal ones ..... But a cheque is generally post-dated because the drawer does not expect to have the funds to meet it until that date arrives. It is a mandate to the banker to the effect that it should not be paid before that...
Post office
Post office, the expression 'post office' includes every house, building, room, carriage or place used for the purposes of the Post Office, and every letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles. [(Indian) Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(h)]The Government service of the carriage of letters, first established in 1643. Regulated by statutes 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 33; 1 & 2 Vict. cc. 97, 98; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (the Post Office (Duties) Act, 1840, which established penny postage), and many other Acts, which are consolidated by the Post Office Act, 1908, as amended by subsequent Acts. Besides its monopoly in respect of letters, telegraphs and wireless telegraphy (q.v.) and telephones (q.v.), it carries on the business of a carrier of parcels, a savings bank, life assurance, the transmission of money by postal orders and money orders, and pays old age pensions. See also (English) Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920; (English) Post Office (Parcels) Act, 192...
Officiating continuously in a senior post
Officiating continuously in a senior post, the ex-pression 'officiated continuously in a senior post' in Rule 3(3)(b) of the Seniority Rules is to be constructed to mean holding a senior post on officiating basis prior to substantive appointment on such senior post. Since a person cannot be treated as officiating on a post after he has been substantively appointed on that post, the said expression cannot be construed as referring to the period of officiation subsequent to the date of substantive appointment, O.S. Singh v. Union of India, (1996) 7 SCC 37 (44). [I.P.S. (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1954]...
Permanent post
Permanent post, 'permanent post' means a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned without limit of time. Fundamental Rule 9 (30) define 'temporary post' as a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned for a limited time. G.R. Luthra v. Lt. Governor, AIR 1974 SC 1908 (1910): (1975) 3 SCC 258: (1975) 1 SCR 974.Permanent post, carries a definite rate of pay without a limit of time, Prem Bihari Lal Saxena v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1965 All 406; Makar Dhwaaj Pal v. Neera Yadav, (1994) 2 SCC 741....
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial