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Approved Committee, means an Approved Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 13. [Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005), s. 2(b)]...
Appointed day
Appointed day. A day fixed by an Act of Parliament for some purpose of the statute; see, e.g., the Local Government Act, 1894, s. 84; Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, s. 5.In relation to a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal, means the date on which such Tribunal is established under sub-s. (1) of s. 3 or, as the case maybe, sub-s. (1) of s. 8. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (13 of 1985), s. 2 (c)]In relation to a Tribunal, means the date with effect from which it is established, by notification, under s. 4. [Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), s. 3 (c)]In relation to any provision of this Act, means the day on which that provision comes into force. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), s. 2 (b)]Means the date on which the Corporation is established under s. 3. [Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956), s. 2 (1)]Means the date on which these rules shall come into force. [Supreme Court Rules, 1966, s. 2 (1) (c)]Means the day following i...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
Additional Judge
Additional Judge, A person appointed as an additional judge under sub-section (3) of sec. 222 of the Govt. of India Act, 1935. [High Court Judges (Conditions of Service) Act, (28 of 1954), s. 2(d)]...
Fire
Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...
Window cleaning
Window cleaning. In urban districts, by s. 171 of the Public Health Act, 1875, incorporating s. 28 and other sections of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847:-Every occupier of any house or other building or other person who orders or permits any person in his service to stand on the sill of any window in order to clean paint, or perform any other operation on the outside of such window, or upon any house or other building . . . unless such window be in the sunk or basement story.Is, if the offence be in any street and to the obstruction, annoyance or danger of the residents, liable to fine up to forty shillings or to imprison-ment up to fourteen days, and any constable of the district is directed to take him into custody without warrant and forthwith convey him before a justice of the peace if the offence shall have been committed within his view.As to requirements in buildings in the Metropolis, see London Building Acts, and see LIGHT....
Title to lands, Documents of
Title to lands, Documents of. As to dealing with title-deeds as mere personal chattels, see Swanley Coal Co. v. Denton, (1906) 2 KB 873. Properly speak-ing, however, they are not chattels; Coke calls them 'the sinewes of the land' (Co. Litt.6 a), and they are so closely connected with it that they will pass, on a conveyance of the land, without being expressly mentioned; the property in the deeds passes out of the vendor to the purchaser simply by the grant of the land itself, Williams on Personal Property. Sec. 45 (1) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, provides that a vendor shall be entitled to retain documents of title where (a) he retains any part of the land to which the documents relate, or (b) the document consists of a trust instrument or other instrument creating a trust which is still subsisting or in instrument relating to the appointment or discharge of a trustee of a subsisting trust. As a rule the estate owner (q.v.) is entitled to possession of the documents rel...
Reward
Reward, a recompense for anything done.Something of value, usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321.By the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826, s. 28, the Courts may order the sheriff of the county, in which certain offences have been committed, to pay the person active in or towards the apprehension of persons charged with felonies a reasonable sum to compensate for expense, exertion, and loss of time, and by s. 30, if a man be killed in attempting to take such offenders the Court may order compensation to his wife or relatives. See Archbold, Crim. Pleading, etc., 25th Edn., pp. 276 et seq.Corruptly taking a reward for helping to the recovery of stolen property without exercising all due diligence to cause the offender to be brought to trial is punishable by penal servitude up to seven years. [(English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 34, and cf. ...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421.The act of receiving something; a written acknow-ledgment that something has been received, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.A stamp duty first imposed in 1783 was progressively ad valorem, until 1853, when the uniform 1d. rate was imposed; this was increased to 2d. by the Finance Act, 1920.For the purposes of the Stamp Act, 1891, the expression 'receipt' is defined (s. 101) as including--(1) Any note, memorandum, or writing whereby any money amounting to two pounds or upwards, or any bill of exchange or promissory note for money amounting to two pounds or upwards, is acknow-ledged or expressed to have been received or deposited or paid, or whereby any debt or demand, or any part of a debt or demand, of the amount of two pounds or upwards, is acknowledged to have been settled, satisfied, or discharged, or which signifie...
Prior or previous
Prior or previous, may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it, Graphite India Ltd. v. Durgapur Projects Ltd., (1999) 7 SCC 645.The word 'prior' or 'previous' may be implied if the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it but there are no such compelling circumstances justifying reading any such implication into s. 29(1). On the other hand, the indications are all to the contrary. On a perusal of the several, different sections of the very Act, that the Parliament has not been unmindful of the need to clearly express its intention by using the expression 'previous permission' whenever it was thought that 'previous permission' was necessary. In s. 27(1) and 30, it is to be seen that the expression 'permission' is qualified by the word 'previous' and in ss. 8(1), 8(2) and 31, the expression 'general or special permission' is qualified by the word 'previous', whereas in s.s 13(2), 19(1), 19(4), 20, 21...
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