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Sewage, means night-soil and other contents of latrines, urinals, cesspools or drains, and polluted water from sinks, bath-rooms, stables, cattle sheds and other like places and includes trade effluents and discharges from factories of all kinds. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(49)]...
Sewer
Sewer, a trench or channel through which water or sewage flows.The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith, and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall name. They are a Court of record, and may proceed b jury, or upon their own view, and may make orders for the removal of annoyances, or the conservation of the sewers within their commission according to the customs of Romney Marsh, or otherwise. They may also assess necessary ra...
methanogen
A type of archaebacteria found in anaerobic environments such as animal intestinal tracts or sediments or sewage and capable of producing methane a source of natural gas...
Plumbing
The art of casting and working in lead and applying it to building purposes especially the business of furnishing fitting and repairing pipes for conducting water sewage etc...
Sewage
The contents of a sewer or drain refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers...
Filth
Filth, 'filth' includes offensive matter and sewage. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(15)]...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Improvement of land
Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process, means any process for--(i) making altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, packing, oiling, washing, cleaning, breaking up, demolishing, or otherwise treating or adapting any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal, or(ii) pumping oil, water, sewage or any other substance; or(iii) generating, transforming or transmitting power; or(iv) composing types for printing, printing by letter press, lithography, photogravure or other similar process or book binding; or(v) constructing, reconstructing, repairing, refitting, finishing or breaking up ships or vessels; or(vi) preserving or storing any article in cold storage. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (k)]It means any process for, or incidental to, making, finishing or packing or otherwise treating any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal as beedi or cigar or both. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, ...
Negligence
Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform in the particular circumstance of each case. A very convenient classification has been formulated corresponding to the degree of negligence entailing liability measured by the degree of care undertaken or required in each case, i.e., (1) ordinary, which is the want of ordinary diligence; (2) slight, the want of great diligence; and (3) gross, the want of slight diligence. A smaller degree of negligence will render a person liable for injury to infants than in the case of adults, see Cooke v. Midland Great Western Railway, 1909 AC 229; and Glasgow Corporation v. Taylor, (1922) 1 AC 44. There is also a peculiar duty to take precaution in the case of dangerous Articles, see Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins, 1909 AC 640. This case should be distinguished from the principle in Fletche...
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