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Reconnaissance operation

Reconnaissance operation, means any preliminary geo-scientific survey undertaken for the purpose of searching or locating mineral deposits. [Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002, s. 2(4)] Means any operations undertaken

Indecent prints or books

other stipendiary magistrates, or any two justices of the peace, to issue special warrants to constables for the searching of houses, etc., in which obscene books, pictures, etc., are suspected to be kept, on complaint on oath

Mine

2(L)(iv)(vi)] The expression 'mine', according to Clause (b) of s. 3, means any excavation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining minerals, Gujarat Pottery Works Pvt. Ltd. v. B.P., AIR 1967 SC 964 (967). [Mines and

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Petroleum

Crown the property in petroleum and natural gas within Great Britain and makes provision with respect to the searching and boring for petroleum. It prohibits the boring for petroleum in the United Kingdom unless on behalf of

Power of Attorney

original power of attorney if it relates to unregistered land and the obtaining of office copies and the searching of the file, see s. 48 of the (English) Act of 1881 and s. 125 of the 1925

Registration of charges on land

and for the protection of purchasers for value of the land in case of non-registration; and for allowing searches of the registers on payment of fees. See LAND CHARGES.

Under Chamberlains of the Exchequer

Chamberlains of the Exchequer, two officers who cleaved the tallies and read them. See TALLY. They also made searches for records in the treasury, and had the custody of Domesday Book. Abolished, Jac. Law Dict.

Wardmote

and beer be honest and suffer no disorders, nor permit gaming, etc., that they sell in lawful measures; searches are to be made for beggars, vagrants, and idle persons, etc., who shall be punished.

Jerquer

A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods

pearler

A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls a pearl diver

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