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Merged territories, shall mean the territories which by virtue of an order made under s. 290A of the Government of India Act, 1935, were immediately before the commencement of the Constitution being administered as if they formed part of a Governor's Province or as if they were a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(33)]...
Person
Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...
Titles (Ecclesiastical)
Titles (Ecclesiastical). By the (English) Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act, 1851, the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a pretended province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory in England or Ireland, not being the see, province, or diocese of an archbishop or bishop, recognized by law, was prohibited under penalties; but this Act (which was passed after great public excitement, in consequence of the division of England into Roman Catholic dioceses by Pope Pius IX., under Cardinal Wiseman, as Archbishop of Westminster) was never enforced, and has been repealed by the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1871....
Federal Government
Federal Government. When two or more sovereign or independent states mutually agree not to exercise certain powers incident to their several sovereignties, but to delegate the exercise of those powers to some person or body chosen by them jointly, there is said to be a federal union of those states, and the person or body to whom the exercise of such powers is delegated is called the Federal Government. The Swiss Confederation, and the United States of North America, are instances of Federal Governments.A (English) Federal Council of Australasia Act (48 & 49 Vict. c. 60), passed in 1885 (see AUSTRALASIA), is now superseded by the federating (English) Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (63 & 64 Vict. c. 12) (see AUSTRALIA), which has repealed it.An effective federation of the British North American Colonies was provided in 1867 by (English) the British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3) (see BRITISH AMERICA), and in 1909 of the Colonies of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Tra...
British India
British India, 'British India' shall mean, as respects the period before the commencement of Part III of the Government of India Act, 1935, all territories and places within His Majesty's dominions which were for the time being governed by His Majesty through the Governor General of India or through any Governor or Officer subordinate to the Governor General of India, and as respects any period after that date and before the date of the establishment of the Dominion of India means all territories for the time being comprised within the Governors' Provinces and the Chief Commissioners' Provinces, except that a reference to British India in an Indian law passed or made before the commencement of Part III of the Government of India Act, 1935, shall not include a reference to Berar. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (5)]...
Sayar
Sayar, 'sayar' income is dealt with in s. 39(1)(c) of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950. Sayar is not defined in the Act but in s. 3(26) of the Act the word 'sayar' is to have the meaning assigned to it in the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939. In the 1939 Tenancy Act sayar includes whatever is to be paid or delivered by a lessee or licensee on account of right of gathering produce, forest rights, fisheries and the use of water for irrigation from artificial sources, Ganga Devi v. State of U.P., AIR 1972 SC 931 (933): (1972) 3 SCC 126: (1972) 3 SCR 431. (United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939)...
Dewan, Duam
Dewan, Duam, place of assembly; Native Minister of the Revenue Department; and Chief Justice in Civil causes, within his jurisdiction; receiver-general of a province. This term is also used to designate the principal revenue servant under a European collector and even of a Zemindar. By this title the East India Company were receivers-general of the revenues of Bengal under a grant from the Great Mogul, Indian....
Kings-at-Arms
Kings-at-Arms. The principal herald of England was of old designated king of the heralds, a title which seems to have been exchanged for king-at-arms about the reign of Henry IV. The kings-at-arms at present existing in England are three: Garter, Clarencieux, and Norroy, besides Bath, who is not a member of the college. Scotland is placed under an officer called Lyon King-at-Arms, and Ireland is the province of one named Ulster. See HERALD....
Indian law
Indian law, 'Indian law' shall mean any Act, Ordin-ance, Regulation, rule (order, bye-law or other instrument) which before the commencement of the Constitution had the force of law in any Province of India or part thereof, or thereafter, has the force of law in any Part A State or Part C State or part thereof, but does not include any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order in Council, rule or other instrument made under such Act. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(29)]...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
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