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Esplees

The full profits or products which ground or land yields as the hay of the meadows the feed of the pasture

Gainful

Profitable advantageous lucrative

Fructuous

Fruitful productive profitable

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Business

SC 928 (934): 1960 SCJ 980: (1959) 37 ITR 171: (1959) Supp 2 SCR 660. S. 2(5) Excess Profit Tax Act, 1940. Business includes any activity carried on by a corporation or association and 'place of business'

Occupation

Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481. It does not necessarily indicate the idea of profit. A man may have an occupation from which he does not get any profit, and never intends to

Charitable purpose

object of general public utility without the additive words 'not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit', Additional Commissioner of Income Tax v. Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers Association, Surat, (1980) 2 SCR 77: (1980)

Dealer, auction

Foodgrains Dealers Licensing Order, (1958), Cl. 2(a)] The supply of medical stores to the Government institutions without any profit motive, on the basis of 'no loss, no profit', and unless it was found that the transactions had

Easement

certain other land not his own. [Easement Act, 1882 (5 of 1882), s. 4] Easement, a privilege without profit which the owner of one neighbouring tenement hath of another, existing in respect of their several tenements, by

Uses

consisted of three parts:-(1) That the feoffee to uses should suffer the cestui que use to take the profits; and (2) upon the request of the cestui que use, or notice of his will, would convey the

Rent

Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first,

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