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Home Dictionary Name: scaleScale of Costs
Scale of Costs. By Rules made by Order in Council, dated the 12th August, 1875, a new scale of costs for the Supreme Court was provided, and these Rules were reenacted in 1883. There is a higher and a lower scale, applicable respectively to the matters specified in the Rules; but costs on the higher scale 'may be allowed . . . if on special grounds arising out of the nature and importance or the difficulty or urgency of the case, the Court or a judge shall . . so order' (Ord. LXV., r. 9). Scales of costs are also provided by the County Court Rules: the respective scales are applicable according to the amount recovered or in dispute, or the nature of the proceedings. See COSTS....
Pay and pay scale
Pay and pay scale, are conceptually different connotations. Pay is essentially a consideration for the services rendered by an employee and is the remuneration which is payable to him. Remuneration is the recurring payment for services rendered during the tenure of employment. Pay and salary are necessarily not interchangeable concepts. Their meanings vary depending upon the provision providing for them. Pay means the amount drawn monthly by a Government servant as - (i) the pay, other than special pay or pay granted in view of his personal qualifications, which has been sanctioned for a post held by him substantively or in an officiating capacity, or to which he is entitled by reasons of his position is a cadre, and (ii) overseas pay, special pay and personal pay, and (iii) any other emoluments which may be specially classed as pay by the president.' A pay scale has different stages starting with initial pay and ending with ceiling pay. Each stage in the scale is commonly referred to ...
major diatonic scale
The natural diatonic scale which has semitones between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth notes and whole tones between the other notes the scale of the major mode of which the third is major also called major scale See Scale and Diatonic...
Scaling
Adapted for removing scales as from a fish as a scaling knife adapted for removing scale as from the interior of a steam boiler as a scaling hammer bar etc...
Current official scale of rates
Current official scale of rates, the expression 'current' means 'vogue' or 'prevalent'; and 'current rate' may mean the rate obtaining at a particular time or at a future time or from time to time. The terms goes well with the present, future and recurrent, the words 'current official' scale of rates' in para IV of the agreement mean the official scale of rates current or prevalent from time to time during the currency of the agreement, Gopisetti Venkatratmam v. Vijayawada Municipality, AIR 1966 SC 353 (354, 355): (1965) 3 SCR 276. [Electricity Act, (9 of 1910), s. 21(2)]...
Industrial concern in small-scale sector
Industrial concern in small-scale sector, 'industrial concern in small-scale sector' means an industrial concern as defined in clause (c) of s. 2 of Industrial Development Bank of India Act, 1964 (18 of 1964), and which is regarded as a small-scale undertaking under s. 11B of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951). [Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 (39 of 1989), s. 2(h)]...
Becks scale
A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp gr 100 and the 30deg point to sp gr 085 From these points the scale is extended both ways all the degrees being of equal length...
Labelled or scaled
Labelled or scaled, Neither the word 'labelled' nor the word 'scaled' means that it should contain the name of manufacture, AIR 1928 Pat 213....
scale
scale : a set of graduated wage rates ;also : a wage consistent with such rates compare minimum wage ...
Beauforts scale
A scale of wind force devised by Sir F Beaufort R N in 1805 in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12...
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