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Reference standard, means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of the Central Government for the verification of any secondary standard. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s.2(t)]...
Obscene
Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913).Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity was established in England three hundred years ago when Sir Charles Sedley exposed his person to the public gaze on the balcony of a tavern. Obscenity in books, however, was punishable only before the spiritual courts because it was so held down to 1708 in which year Queen v. Read, 11 Mod 205 QB, was decided, In 1727 in the case against one Curl it was ruled for the first time that it was a Common Law offence, Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 881 (887): (1965) 1 SCR 65. (Indian Penal Code, s. 292)The concept of obscenity would differ from country to country dependin...
Working standard
Working standard, means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of Government for the verification ofany standard weight or measure, other than a national prototype or national reference or secondary standard. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(ze)]...
burden of proof
burden of proof :the responsibility of producing sufficient evidence in support of a fact or issue and favorably persuading the trier of fact (as a judge or jury) regarding that fact or issue [the burden of proof is sometimes upon the defendant to show his incompetency "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] compare standard of proof NOTE: The legal concept of the burden of proof encompasses both the burdens of production and persuasion. Burden of proof is often used to refer to one or the other. Burden of proof and burden of persuasion are also sometimes used to refer to the standard of proof. ...
Fatuous persons
Fatuous persons, idiots.Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to 'liability in tort', Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692.Means negligence, breach of statutory duty or other act or omission, Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. [HL(E), (2000) 3 WLR 1547: (2002) UKHL 43.Relates to the conduct of the defendant - in other words, as it relates to the plainiff's cause of action, Rowe v. Turner Hopkins & Partners, (1980) 2 NZLR 550; See also Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn., (2001) LR (QB) 167 (CA)....
standard
standard 1 : something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model, example, or point of reference [the of the reasonable person] 2 : something established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality 3 : the basis of value in a monetary system ...
candlepower
luminous intensity illuminating power as of a lamp or gas flame measured in candelas referring to the light of a standard candle...
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English)
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English), provides, with cer-tain exceptions, that all sales of corn (i.e., wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, and the bran and meal therefrom) shall be by weight and in terms of and by reference to the one hundred weight of 112 imperial standard pounds, otherwise transactions are null and void. The Act also applies to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seeds of grass, clover, vetches, Swedes, field turnips, rape, filed cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax and sainfoin. By s. 5 ibid. the price and value under any Act, award, or instrument of an imperial bushel shall have effect as if the price or value were calculated on that of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty of barley and thirty nine of oats....
Value
Value, a relative term. The value of a thing may refer to a certain standard with which the thing can be measured or compared. The factors of comparison should be capable of precise definition.The word 'value,' when used without adjunct, always means in political economy, value in exchange; or, as it has been called by Adam Smith and his successors, exchangeable value, a phrase which no amount of authority that can be quoted for it can make other than bad English. Mr. De Quincey substitutes the term 'exchange value,' which is unexceptionable, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 528, 578.The word 'value,' it is to be observed, has more than one meaning, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called 'value in use,' the other 'value in exchange.' The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those whic...
Wheat
Wheat. See CORN; QUOTA. The (English) Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 24), was passed to secure to registered growers of wheat grown in the United Kingdom a standard price and a market, and to provide payments by millers and importers of flour by reference to a quota of home-grown wheat and to provide for the purchase by the Flour Millers Corporation representing such millers of unsold stocks of such wheat up to 12' per cent. of the anticipated home-grown supply at the fair market price in the locality....
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