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Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Condition of service
Condition of service, includes transfer of the employees, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief v. Subhash Chandra Yadav, (1988) 2 SCC 351: AIR 1988 SC 876. [Cantonment Board Service Rules (1937) R. 5C]The expression 'conditions of service' is an expression of wide import. As pointed by the Supreme Court in Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Hon'ble the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, (1955) 2 SCR 1331, the dismissal of an official is a matter which falls within 'conditions of service' of public servants. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in North West Frontier Province v. Suraj Narain Anand, (1948) LR 75 IA 343, took the view that a right of dismissal is a condition of service within the meaning of the words under s. 243 of the Government of India Act, 1935. Lord Thankerton speaking for the Board observed therein: 'apart from consideration whether the context indicates a special significance to the expression 'conditions of service' their Lordships are unable in the absence of any su...
Air traffic service
Air traffic service, 'air traffic service' includes flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, air traffic control service, area control service, approach control service and airport control service. [Airports Authority of India Act, (55 of 1994), s. 2(d)]...
Telecommunication service
Telecommunication service, means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data services, audio tax services, video tax services, radio paging and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or other electromagnetic means but shall not include broadcasting service:Provided that the Central Government may notify other service to be telecommunication service in-cluding broadcasting services. [Telecom Regula-tory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997), s. 2(k)]Means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data service, audio tax services, video tax services, radio paying and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, rad...
Officiating service and substantive service
Officiating service and substantive service, officiat-ing service means service rendered as a non-permanent holder. Substantive service therefore means service as a permanent holder of an office, P.C. Kunhikrishnan Nambiar v. State of Kerala, AIR 1965 Ker 84 (87). [IAS (Appointment by Promo-tion), Regulations, 1955, Reg. 4]...
Service imams and service tenure
Service imams and service tenure, the expression 'service' in connection with religious institutions has acquired a special and significant meaning and the well understood meaning given to the expressions 'service inams' and 'service tenure' over decades of years cannot be ignored....the proviso s. 3(1) is inapplicable to lands held by religious institutions and therefore the land are liable to full assessment.....The expression 'service tenure' cannot also be interpreted by referring to s. 44-B of the Madras Act, 1927 where that expression is in fact not used at all, Government of Tamil Nadu v. Ahobila Matam, AIR 1987 SC 245: (1987) 1 SCC 38: (1987) 1 SCR 232....
Class II service
Class II service, the words 'Class II service' in Rule 8 (2) of the Haryana Service of Engineers Class I P.W.D. (Irrigation Branch) Rules,1964 must bear the same meaning as the expression 'Class II service' as defined in Rule 2 (5). The artificial definition of 'Class II service' introduced by amendment of Rule 2 (5) in 1975 was obviously to bring persons who were not Assistant Engineers i.e. members of Class II service within the zone of consideration for purposes of promotion the post of Executive Engineer under Rule 6 (b) of Class I Rules, Ashok Gulati v. B.S. Jain, 1986 Supp SCC 597: (1987) 1 SCR 603: AIR 1987 SC 424 (431)....
Judicial service
Judicial service, the expression 'judicial service' can be defined as inclusive of a wide variety of offices connected with the administration of justice in one way or the other, Syed T.A. Naoshbandi v. State of J&K, (2003) 9 SCC 592 (604).The expression 'Judicial service' is defined in Article 236 (b) and it means service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of district Judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge, State of West Bengal v. Nripendranath Bagchi, AIR 1966 SC 447 (450): (1966) 1 SCR 771.The expression 'Judicial Service' means a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of District Judge and other Civil Judicial posts inferior to the District Judge and the ex-pression 'District Judge' includes among others an Additional District Judge and an Additional Sessions Judge, State of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616 (1618): (1969) 3 SCC 505, See also Chandra Mohan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, ...
Qualifying service
Qualifying service, 'qualifying service' under rules means 'service qualifying for pension', Hans Raj v. State of Punjab, AIR 1985 SC 69 (74): (1985) 1 SCC 134: (1985) 1 SCR 1040. [Punjab Civil Service (Pre-mature Retirement Rule), 1975, R. 2(3)]Means service rendered while on duty or otherwise which shall be taken into account for the purpose of pensions and gratuities admissible, Union of India v. S. Dharmalingam, AIR 1994 SC 592: (1994) 1 SCC 179: (1994) 1 SCJ 58: (1994) SCW 238: (1994) 1 Serv LJ (SC) 169: (1994) 26 ATC 575: (1994) 68 Fac LR 140: (1994) 1 UJ (SC) 45: (1994) 1 Lab LN 11....
Service of notice/notice
Service of notice/notice, according to Art. 158 of the First Schedule to the Indian Limitation Act, the period of limitation for an application to set aside an award under the Arbitration Act, 1940, begins to run from 'the date of service of the notice of the filing of the award. Notice does not necessarily mean 'communication in writing. 'Notice' accord-ing to the Oxford Concise Dictionary, means 'intimation, intelligence, warning' and has this meaning in expressions like 'give notice, have notice' and it also means 'formal intimation of something, or instructions to do something' and has such a meaning in expressions like 'notice to quit, till further notice'. Further, 'service', according to Webster's New International Diction-ary, II Edition, Unabridged, means 'act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law'. Oral communica-tion will therefore amount to service too, when no particular mode of service is prescribed. When the Legi...
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