Reclamation - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Reclamation, means in the case of submerged or overflowed land, the rescuing of it from being submerged. The rendering of it fit for cultivation is not the original meaning in regard to the sub-merged land. That would be its meaning in regard to the reclamation of unarable land, Shamrao Pandurang v. Secretary of State, (1901) 25 Bom 32.Means the act or an instance of improving the value of economically useless land by physically changing the land, such as irrigating a desert, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1277....
reclamation
reclamation 1 : the act or process of reclaiming [the of goods delivered to an insolvent buyer] 2 : a right to reclaim (as under commercial law) ...
Reclamation
The act or process of reclaiming...
Definition
Definition, A definition is an explicit statement of the full connotation of a term, Punjab Land and Reclamation Corpn. Ltd. v. Presiding Officer, (1990) 3 SCC 682 (717): (1990) 3 SCR 111....
Development Commissioners
Development Commissioners, means the Develop-ment Commissioner appointed for one or more Special Economic Zones under sub-s. (1) and s. 11 [Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) s. 2(h)]Eight persons so named can be appointed by the king, who also nominates the chairman, under s. 3 of the (English) Development and Road Improve-ment Funds Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 47), as amended by the (English) Act of 1910 (10 Edw. 7 and 1 Geo. 5, c. 7); 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 72; 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 21. The Commissioners are appointed for the purposes of recommendation to the Treasury in regard to advances which the Treasury is empowered to make out of a fund to be called the Development Fund created and provided for by the (English) Act of 1909, for any of the following purposes:--(a) Aiding and developing agricultural and rural industries by promoting scientific research, instruc-tion and experiments in the science, methods and practice of agriculture (including the provision of farm institutes), ...
Improvement of land
Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...
Interlocutory order
Interlocutory order, it has to be construed in con-tradiction to or in contrast with final order. It means not a final order, but an intermediate order. It is made between the commencement of an action and the entry of the judgment, V.C. Shukla v. C.B.I., AIR 1980 SC 962 (976). (Order XXXIX, Rule 6, CPC, 1908)The term 'interlocutory order' in S. 397(2) of the 1973 Code (Cr. P.C.) has been used in a restricted sense and not in any broad or artistic sense. It merely denotes orders of a purely interim or temporary nature which do not decide or touch the important rights or the liabilities of the parties. Any order which substantially affects the right of the accused, or decides certain rights of the parties cannot be said to be an interlocutory order so as to bar a revision to the High Court against that order, because that would be against the very object which formed the basis for insertion of this particular provision in S. 397 of the 1973 Code, Amar Nath v. State of Haryana, AIR 1977 ...
Means
Means, the word 'means' used in O. XXXIII, R. 1, Civil Procedure Code, covers all realisable assets within the applicant's reach, Tej Dat Singh v. Yuvraj Datt, 1947 AWR (CC) 275: 1947 OA (CC) 275. (See Civil Procedure Code, 1908)Means, When a statute says that a word or phrase shall 'mean' not merely that is shall include certain things or acts, the definition is a hard-and-fast definition, and no other meaning can be assigned to the expression than is put down in definition, Punjab Land Develop and Reclamation Corpn. Ltd. v. Presiding Officer Labour Court, (1990) 3 SCC 682: (1990) 3 SCR 111....
Per incuriam decision
Per incuriam decision, means through inadvertence. It happens when the Supreme Court acts in ignorance of a previous decision of its own or when a High Court acts in ignorance of a decision of the Supreme Court, Punjab Land Development and Reclamation Corporation Ltd. v. Presiding Officer, Labour Court, (1990) 3 SCC 682....
Retrenchment
Retrenchment, in its ordinary connotation is discharge of labour as surplus though the business or work itself is continued, S.M. Nilajkar v. Telecom District Manager, (2003) 4 SCC 27.Means the termination by the employer of the service of a workman for any reason whatsoever, otherwise than as a punishment inflicted by way of disciplinary action but does not include--(a) voluntary retirement of the workman; or(b) retirement of the workman on reaching the age of superannuation if the contract of employment between the employer and the workman concerned contains a stipulation in that behalf; or(bb) termination of the service of the workman as a result of the non-renewal of the contract of employment between the employer and the workman concerned on its expiry or of such contract being terminated under a stipulation in that behalf contained therein; or(c) termination of the service of a workman on the ground of continued ill-health. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2 (oo)]T...
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