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Keeping a brothel

place was being used as a brothel and that the person alleged was so keeping it, Krishnamurthy v. Public Prosecutor, (1967) 1 SCR 586: AIR 1967 SC 567 (568). [Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls … Keeping a brothel, It may be true that a place used once for the purpose of prostitution may not be a brothel, but it is a question of fact

Apartment

for such other type of independent use as may be prescribed, and with a direct exit to a public street, road or highway, or to a common area leading to such street, road or highway, and includes

British museum

to recover for a libel in a pamphlet bought by the defendants and placed in the library for public use.

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Impressment

The act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service compulsion to serve as the impressment of provisions or of sailors

requisition

requisition 1 : the taking of property by a public authority for a public use : the exercise of the power of eminent domain 2 : a formal demand made by one international

Eminent domain and police powers-distinction

destroyed without compensation being given, whereas under the power of eminent domain, the property may be appropriated to public use on payment of compensation only, Deputy Commissioner and Collector v. Durganath Sarma, AIR 1968 SC 394 (399): (1968)

Specification

it when the period of exclusive privilege has expired. See LETTERS-PATENT. As to indexes of specifications for the public use, see s. 46 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907 (as amended by the Patents and Designs Act

Well known trade mark

to any goods or services, means a mark which has become so to the substantial segment of the public which uses such goods or receives such services that the use of such mark in relation to other

Water supply and sanitary fittings

term mean such pipes or materials as are used in lavatories, urinals or bathrooms of private houses or public buildings. The use of the word 'fittings' suggests that the expression is intended to refer to articles or

Encroachment

intrusion of another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 547. Means unauthorised occupation of Government land or public land by way of putting temporary, semi-permanent or permanent structure for residential use or commercial use or any

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