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Professional crime, in Europe, the terms 'organised crime' and 'professional crime' are largely inter-changeable. As compared to American standards, the European criminal organizations are small-scale and short-lived. Such crimes are defined as involving a system of specifically defined relation-ship with mutual obligation and privileges and association of a small group of criminals for the ex-ecution of the intended crime, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal, (2001) 9 SCC 1 (7)....
Profession
Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798.A profession ordinarily is an occupation requiring intellectual skill, often coupled with manual skill. Thus a teacher uses purely intellectual skill while a painter uses both. In any event, they are not engaged in an occupation in which employers and employees co-operates in the production or sale of commodities or arrangement for their production or sale or distribution and their services cannot be described as material services, Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, AIR 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735; see also Sodan Singh v. NDNC, (1989) 4 SCC 155.Calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, physic, and law are called the learned professions.Includes business, Pioneer Motors v. Municipal Council Ngarcoil, AIR 1967 SC 684: 1961 (3) SCR 609.Profession,...
Profit motive
Professional institution, means organisations which import advanced learning in a particular field on profession such as law, medicine or engineering for attachment of special knowledge as distinguished from mere skill, Kannammal Educational Trust v. Union of Madras, AIR 1996 Mad 303. [See T.N. Private College (Regulations) Act, (19 of 1976), s. 3]...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'), showing that the holders have attained some definite proficiency.The English Universities are those of Oxford, Cambridge (incorporated by 13 Eliz. c. 29, by the two names of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, with the direction that they shall be called and named by none other name for evermore), Durham, London, Victoria of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and East Midland University Nottingham, the graduates of which (see University of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the Uni...
Arbitration
Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to decide between them.Means a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties who are usually agreed to by the disputing parties and whose decision is binding, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 100.Means any arbitration whether or not administered by permanent arbitral institution. [The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 2(a)]An arbitrator is a disinterested person, to whose judgment and decision matters in dispute are referred, Termes de la Ley.The civilians make a difference between arbiter and arbitrator, though both found their power in the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to judge according to the customs of the law: whereas the latter is at liberty to use his own discretion, and accommodate the difference in that manner which appears most just and equitable.An ar...
Educational institutions
Educational institutions, the words, 'educational institutions' are of very wide import and would include a university also, S. Azeez Basha v. Union of India, AIR 1968 SC 662 (670): (1968) 1 SCR 833. [Constitution of India, Art. 30(1)]A school, seminary, college, university or other educational facility though not necessarily a chartered institution, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 532Means institutions that impart education, P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 2005 SC 3226.Imparting higher education, i.e. graduate level and above and in particular specialized education such as technical or professional, constitutes a separate class, P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 2005 SC 3226....
Incorporated Law Society
Incorporated Law Society, now termed the Law Society, was founded by Mr. Bryan Holme in 1825, and incorporated in 1831 by Royal Charter; this was surrendered for a new Charter in 1845, by which, as amended by Supplemental Charters in 1872, 1903, and 1909, the Society now remains constituted. The Society was incorporated 'to facilitate the acquisition of legal knowledge, and for better and more conveniently discharging the professional duties of the members of the Society,' under the full title of 'The Society of Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors, and others not being Barristers practicing in the Courts of Law and Equity of the United Kingdom'; since the charter of 1903 it has been officially (as before them commonly) called 'The Law Society.'The Society first instituted lectures for students in 1833, and was made registrar of attorneys and solicitors in 1843 by the (English) Solicitors Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 73), s. 21.On the decay of the Inns of Chancery, which in their later aspect ...
Business
Business, 'business' is a word of wide import. It has no definite meaning. Its perceptions differ from private to public sector or from institutional financing to commercial banking, Mahesh Chandra v. Regional Manager Uttar Pradesh Financial Corpn., AIR 1993 SC 935 (939): (1993) 2 SCC 279. [State Financial Corporation Act, (63 of 1951), s. 24]--Business would undoubtedly be property, unless there is something to the contrary in the enactment, J.K. Trust Bombay v. CIT, (1958) SCR 65: 1957 SCJ 845: AIR 1957 SC 846.Business includes the activities carried on by any public body, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 20, 4th Edn., Para 546, p. 357. The term 'business' includes every trade, occupation and profession. The word 'business' has no technical meaning, but is to be read with reference to the subject and intent of the Act in which it occurs. The term 'business' means an affair requiring attention and labour as the chief concern; mercantile pursuits, that one does for livelihood, occupati...
Dentist
Dentist. The (English) Medical Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 90), s. 48, enabled Her Majesty, by charter, to grant to the Royal College of Surgeons of England power to institute examinations, etc., for dentists, and the Dentists Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 33), provides for the registration of dentists. The (English) Dentists Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 21), provides that no person, unless registered under the Act of 1878, shall practise or hold himself out, whether directly or by implication, as practising or as being prepared to practise dentistry under a penalty not exceeding 100l. Certain persons are, however, allowed to make extractions where no registered person is available. The Act establishes a Dental Board, who may admit, in addition to those admissible under s. 6 of the principal Act, any person of good character over 23 years of age on 28th July, 1921, who (1) had for any five years since July, 1914, been practising dentistry in the United Kingdom, or, if a chemist, was in ...
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