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Secondary standard

Secondary standard, means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of the Central or State Government for the verification of any working standard. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976) s. 2(x)]...

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)]...

Reference standard

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)]...

Includes

Includes, as (i) to have as contents or part of contents; be made up of or contain; (ii) to add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group or a category (iii) to contain as a secondary or minor ingredient or element, (Collins Dictionary of English Language).Is used in an interpretation clause, it must be construed as comprehending not only such things as they signify according to their nature and import but also those thing which the interpretation clause declares that they shall include, Scientific Engg. House (P) Ltd. v. C.I.T., (1986) 1 SCC 11: 1986 SCC (Tax) 143.The word 'includes' has different meanings in different contexts. Standard Dictionaries assign more than one meaning to the word 'include'. Webster's Dictionary defines the word 'include' as synonymous with 'comprise' or 'contain'. The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'include' as (i) comprise or contain in as a part of a whole; (ii) treat or regard as so included. The Collins Dictionary of Engl...

Bias

Bias [adopted from Fr. biais, oblique]. The law will not suppose a possibility of bias in a judge, who is already sworn to administer impartial justice, and whose authority greatly depends upon that presumption and idea, 3 Bl. Com. 361. See R. v. Cork Justices, (1910) 2 Ir. R. 271.The word 'bias' in popular English parlance stands included within the attributes and broader purview of the word 'malice', which in common acceptation mean and imply 'spite' or 'ill-will'.Mere general statements will not be sufficient for the purposes of indication of ill-will. There must be cogent evidence available on record to come to the conclusion as to whether in fact there was existing a bias which resulted in the miscarriage of justice, Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam Ltd. v. Girja Shankar, AIR 2001 SC 24. [Constitution of India, Arts. 226, 14]Bias may be defined as a pre-conceived opinion or a pre-disposition or pre-determination to decide a case or an issue in a particular manner, so much so that such pr...

Slime

Slime, is the term used in milling practice to describe a suspension, in water of the fully divided fraction of pulverized ore; also solid, whether suspended or after setting out to drying, Handbook of Mineral Dressing (at p. 1504); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a material of extremely fine-particle size encountered in ore treatment (ASG Gloss), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a mudlike substance formed of ore in an almost impalpable powder, mixed with water: usually plural (Standard 1964) National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means a product of wet grinding containing valuable ore in particles so fine, as to be carried in suspension by water; chiefly used in the plural (Webster 3d); see also National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2004) 6 SCC 281.Means in metallurgy, ore reduced ...

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