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Raw silk, is thin and fine filament of silkworm. Whatever has been eaten by the silkworm, it brings out as a liquid which gets solidified on coming into contact with oxygen.The solidified material is the silk filament. The silkworm spins the silk filament around itself as a protective shell and this is called cocoon. Each such cocoon is nothing but a continuous length of the silk filament of about 500 metres.The silk filament in a continuous unbroken length is capable of being reeled out only before the moth comes out. So the pupa inside the cocoon is not allowed to undergo metamorphosis, and is destroyed by throwing the cocoon into hot water. The thread then reeled out of the cocoon on yanks either in country charkhas or filature basin is the silk yarn, and is called raw silk, State of Karnataka v. BV Aswathanarayana Setty, (1980) 2 Kant LJ 361 (DB)....
Raw material
Raw material, as commonly understood, is used in the process of manufacture. Printing machinery will certainly not come under the category of 'raw material', Re KI Kosalram, AIR 1968 Mad 113.Raw material, defined one of the valid tests could be that the ingredient should be so essential for the chemical process culminating in the emergence of the desired end product, that having regard to its importance in and indispensability for the process, it could be said that its very consumption on burning up is its quality and value as raw materials, Collector of Central Excise, New Delhi v. Ballarpur Industries Ltd., AIR 1990 SC 196.Raw material, is something from which another new or distinct commodity can be produced. When it is used in a taxing statute, it may have related meaning depending on the context in which it has been used, Tata Engineering & Locomotive Company Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1996) 6 SCC 479.The expression 'raw-material' is not a defined term. The meaning to be given to it...
Crape
A thin crimped stuff made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill Black crape is much used for mourning garments also for the dress of some clergymen...
Fangot
A quantity of wares as raw silk etc from one hundred weight...
Fibroin
A variety of gelatin the chief ingredient of raw silk extracted as a white amorphous mass...
VerbarMoche
A bale of raw silk...
Serigraph
An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk...
Raw materials
Raw materials, means goods used as the ingredient in the manufacture of other goods and includes processing materials, consumable stores and material used in the packing of the goods so manufactured but does not include fuels for the purpose of generation of electricity. [Gujarat Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(19)]Raw materials, ought to be construed in the sense of those basic materials which are required for the production of finished articles which the manu-facturer manufactures and not in the sense of unmanufactured materials or materials in their raw state, Municipal Committee, Burhanpur v. Allauddin Aolia Saheb, (1957) MP LJ 279....
Rayon or artificial silk fabrics
Rayon or artificial silk fabrics, 'rayon or Artificial Silk Fabrics' includes varieties of fabrics manu-factured either wholly or partly from rayon or artificial silk but do not include any such fabrics... (iii) if it contains cotton and less than 60 per cent by weight of rayon or artificial silk;...' Union of India v. Ahmedabad Manufacturing and Calico Printing Co. Ltd., AIR 1986 SC 121 (122): (1985) 3 SCC 693: (1985) Supp 2 SCR 537. [Central Excise and Salt Act Act, (1 of 1944), Sch. I, Item No. 22]...
Raw cashewnut
Raw cashewnut, 'raw cashewnut' is an article of food and must be classified as an essential commodity, K. Janardhan Pillai v. Union of India, AIR 1981 SC 1485: (1981) 2 SCC 45: (1981) 2 SCR 676....
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