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Food, Pan masala, gutka are held to be food within the meaning of s. 2(v) of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, Godawal Pan Masala Products Ltd. v. Union of India, (2004) 7 SCC 68 (101): AIR 2004 SC 4057.Food. In the Sale of Food and Drugs Act (see ADULTERATION) the word includes 'every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food,' and also 'flavouring matters and condiments.'-(English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 51), s. 26; (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 71), s. 72; and Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), s. 34. For power to make regulations as to the importation of good, see AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL MARKETING; (English) Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 32). See generally, ADULTERATION, also (English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927.Means ...
Double waste
Double waste. When a tenant, bound to repair, suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he is said to commit double waste....
Bridge
Bridge [g'fnra, Gk.; pons, Lat.; bric, Sax.], a building erected across a river, ditch, valley, or other place, for the common benefit of travellers. The' Statute of Bridges' (22 Hen. 8, c. 5), (which see, with other statutes, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways (Bridges)'), provides for the rating of the inhabitants of a county or borough for the repair of bridges not repairable by any person ratione tenur'. As to the offence of pulling down, throwing down, or destroying a bridge, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 29 and 33.The management of county bridges is transferred from justices to county councils by s. 3, para Viii., of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888; and by s. 6 of the same Act the county councils may purchase bridges not being county bridges, and may erect new bridges. And see (English) Pub. Health Act, 1936, s. 343. The construction and repair of railway bridges over or under a public highway is mainly regulated by the (English) Rail...
Bote
Bote [fr. bot, A.S.; beton, to repair, synonymous with estovers, Fr.; esroffer, to furnish], necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. The owner of an estate for life or for years is entitled, even if he is impeachable for waste and unless expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers or botes, i.e., necessary wood, such as house-bote, plough-bote, cart-bote, and hay-bote or hedge-bote. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or burn in the house, and sometimes termed fire-bote; plough-bote and cart-bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry; and hay-bote or hedge-bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences. The word also signifies reparation for any damage or injury done, as man-bote, which was a compensation or amends for a man slain, etc., 2 Bl. Com. 35; Jac. Law Dict.A compensation or profit; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Service station
a business where automobiles may be serviced and repaired usually also having a gasoline vending apparatus in which case it is also called a gas station or gasoline station Facilities for repair of automobiles but without a gasoline dispensing function are commonly called repair shops...
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
body shop
an establishment where the frame or outer body of a vehicle may be repaired or painted contrasted with a mechanic who repairs the motor and other working components...
loss
loss 1 : physical, emotional, or esp. economic harm or damage sustained: as a : decrease in value, capital, or amount compare gain b : an amount by which the cost of something (as goods or services) exceeds the selling price compare profit c : something unintentionally destroyed or placed beyond recovery d : the amount of an insured's financial detriment due to the occurrence of a stipulated event (as death, injury, destruction, or damage) in such a manner as to create liability in the insurer under the terms of the policy NOTE: As a general rule, economic losses are deductible from adjusted gross income under section 165 of the Internal Revenue Code. There are, however, numerous exceptions and limitations. actual loss : the identifiable and calculable monetary detriment that is suffered or will be suffered as a result of an act or event actual total loss : a loss in marine insurance in which the property (as a vessel or cargo) cannot be repaired or recovered compare constru...
Ship's husband
Ship's husband, a peculiar agent appointed by the owner of a ship to look after the repairs, equip-ment, management, and other concerns of the ship. His duties are: (1) To see to the proper outfit of the vessel, the repairs, tackle and furniture necessary for a seaworthy ship. (2) To have a proper master, mate, and crew for the ship, so that in this respect it shall be seaworthy. (3) To see to the due furnishing of provisions and stores. (4) To see to the regularity of clearance from the Custom-house of the registry. (5) To settle contracts, and provide for payment of the furnishings requisite. (6) To enter into charter-parties, or engage the vessel for general freight, under usual conditions; and to settle for freights and adjust averages with the merchant. (7) To preserve the proper certificates, surveys, and documents, in case of disputes with insures of freighters, and to keep regular books of the ship, Story's Agency, 31. See Maclachlan on Shipping. He must be registered under the...
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process, means any process for--(i) making altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, packing, oiling, washing, cleaning, breaking up, demolishing, or otherwise treating or adapting any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal, or(ii) pumping oil, water, sewage or any other substance; or(iii) generating, transforming or transmitting power; or(iv) composing types for printing, printing by letter press, lithography, photogravure or other similar process or book binding; or(v) constructing, reconstructing, repairing, refitting, finishing or breaking up ships or vessels; or(vi) preserving or storing any article in cold storage. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (k)]It means any process for, or incidental to, making, finishing or packing or otherwise treating any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal as beedi or cigar or both. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, ...
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