Seed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: seedOil seeds
Oil seeds, the conclusion that jeera, dhania, panmohuri, methi and postak are 'oilseeds' is correct. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary (7th Edition) edited by Arthur and Elizabeth Rose, from which the following informations regarding the seeds in question were available: Dhania (coriander seed); botanical name coriandrum sativum: Coriander oil is distilled from the coriander sativum a colourless or slightly yellowish liquid having aromatic odour. Jeera (cumin seed); Cumin oil is distilled from the cumin seed and is used for medicine, flavouring and perfumery. It is a colourless or yellowish, limpid liquid having characteristic odour of cumin. Postak (poppy seed); botanical name papover somni-ferum: Poppy oil is a very pale, golden yellow liquid with pleasant taste and odour extracted from the seeds and it is used as food oil, artist's colours, varnishes and lubrication. Methi (Fenugreek); botanical name trigonella Foenum-graecum (vide p. 164, Vol. 9 of the Encyclopedia Britannica). It ...
Seeds Adulteration Act, 1869
Seeds Adulteration Act, 1869 (English) (32 & 33 Vict. c. 112), amended as to meaning of 'dyeing' by the Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 17) (passed in consequence of Francis v. Maas, (1878) 3 QBD 341, where it was held no offence to make old seeds look like new). A thus amended the Act penalizes up to 5l. killing or dyeing seeds, the term 'to dye seeds' meaning 'to apply to seeds any process of colouring, dyeing, or sulphur smoking.' See also Seeds Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 54), requiring delivery to the purchaser of particulars specifying (inter alia) that the seeds sold have been tested as required by the Act....
Edible oil seed
Edible oil seed, the phrase 'edible oil-seed' mean only an oil seed which is edible as an oil-seed. Cotton-seed, not being edible, falls outside theclass of 'edible oil-seed', Girdhar Mal v. Dev Raj, AIR 1963 SC 1587 (1590). [Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946, ss. 5, 3, 2]...
Seed
Seed, in the Webster's Third International Diction-ary where coriander seed is described as 'the ripened dried fruit of coriander used for flavouring esp. of pickles, curries, confectioneries, and liquors, State of Orissa v. Dinabandhu Sahu & Sons, AIR 1976 SC 1561 (1564): (1976) 4 SCC 431: (1976) 3 SCR 966.Seed money, start up money for a business venture, Black's Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1362.Seed, means a type of living embryo or propagule capable of regeneration and giving rise to a plant which is true to such type. [The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001, s. 2(x)]...
Seeds
Seeds, pulses are clearly seeds of agricultural or horticultural crops, AIR 1992 Bom 79 (81). [Plants, Fruits and Seeds (Regulation of Import into India) Order 1989, Cl. 2(1)]...
Seed
A ripened ovule consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments or coverings as an apple seed a currant seed By germination it produces a new plant...
cotton seed
The seed of the cotton plant...
Adulteration
Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
Nicker nut
A rounded seed rather smaller than a nutmeg having a hard smooth shell and a yellowish or bluish color The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical woody climbers of the genus Caeligsalpinia Caeligsalpinia Bonduc has yellowish seeds Caeligsalpinia Bonducella bluish gray...
Nux vomica
The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons...
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