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serve served serv·ing 1 : to deliver, publish, or execute (notice or process) as required by law [no notice of any such request was ever served on the husband "National Law Journal"] 2 : to make legal service upon (the person named in a process) : inform or notify by legal service [unless the city had been served with prior notice of a defect "Gene Mustain"] 3 : to put in (a term of imprisonment) [has served five years of her sentence] ...

Issued and served

Issued and served, the expressions 'issued' and 'served' are used as interchangeable terms and in the legislative practice of our country they are sometimes used to convey the same idea. Accord-ingly, it was held that the word 'issues' was not used in the narrow sense of 'sent' but that the said expression had received, before the Indian Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1959, a clear judicial interpretation. Subba Rao, J., as he then was, dealing with the purpose which the word 'issue' was intended to serve, after referring to Niwas v. I.T.O., (1956) 30 ITR 381 (All) cited in the judgment under attack and a Bombay decision, observed at page 108: The intention would be effectuated if the wider meaning is given to the expression 'issued'. The dictionary meaning of the expression 'issued' takes in the entire process of sending notices as well as service thereof. The said word used in s. 34(1) of the Act itself was interpreted by Courts to mean 'served', Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Kundan Lal...

Serving

Serving, a member of Air Force on leave is 'serving' within the meaning of the section, AIR 1970 P&H 351 (357). (Air Force Act, 1950, s. 9)Serving, must be construed in the wider sense in which a person employed by another is said to be serving him, merely by reason of the relationship created by the employment, Ajit Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1970 P&H 351: (1970) ILR 2 Punj 69: (1970) 72 Punj LR 396: (1970) Cr LJ 1119 (FB)...

Serving under the Govt. and in the service of the Govt.,

Serving under the Govt. and in the service of the Govt., there was a distinction between 'serving under the Government' and 'in the service of the Government', while one may serve under a Government, one may not necessarily be in the service of the Government; under the latter expression one not only serves under the Government but is in the service of the Government and it imports the relationship of master and servant, K.C. Deo Bhanj v. Raghunath Misra, AIR 1959 SC 589 (594): (1959) Supp 1 SCR 952....

Serve

Serve, means to make a legal delivery of (a notice or process) of a copy of the pleading on all interested parties, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1373.Serve, to serve means 'to perform function; do what is required for, Coal Mines Provident Fund Commissioner v. Ramesh Chander Jha, AIR 1990 SC 648 (649).1. To make legal delivery of a notice or process 2. To present a person with a notice or process as required by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372...

Serving in connection with the affairs of the Union or in the State

Serving in connection with the affairs of the Union or in the State, explanation to r. 2(a) of the All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968 enlarges the meaning of the expression 'serving in connection with the affairs of the Union or in connection with the affairs of the State'. It provides that a member of the Service whose services are placed at the disposal of a company, corporation or other organisation or a local authority by the Central Government or the Government of a State, shall, for the purpose of those rules, be deemed to be a member of the Service serving in connection with the affairs of the Union or in connection with the affairs of the State, as the case may be, notwithstanding that his salary is drawn from the sources other than the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of that State. The legal function contained in Explanation to Rule 21(a), is for a limited purpose, S.S. Dhanoa v. Municipal Corporation, AIR 1981 SC 1395: (1981) 3 SCC 431: (1981) 3 SCR ...

Serve and service

Serve and service, the word 'service' in s. 2(17)(h) must necessarily mean something more than being merely subject to the orders of Government or control of the Government. To serve means 'to perform function; do what is required for'. The Commissioner appointed by Government performs the functions as envisaged in the Act and the scheme thereunder. When he is actually acting in the capacity of Provident Fund Commissioner, he does not cease to be an officer in the service ofthe Government, Coal Mines Provident Fund Commissioner v. Ramesh Chander Jha, AIR 1990 SC 648 (649). [Civil, PC, 1908, s. 2(17)(h)]...

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