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A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel called also waist anchor See the Note under Anchor...
Sheet cable
The cable belonging to the sheet anchor...
Anchor
Anchor. The (English) Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), consolidating, with small amendments, three Acts of 1864, 1871 and 1874, provides that unproved anchors are not to be sold or bought for a British ship, and regulates the made of testing by testing establishments licensed by the Board of Trade. See also (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 290, 538-40. As to recovering the value of an anchor which has been slipped to avoid a collision, see The Port Victoria, 1902, P. 25....
Sheet and sheetings
Sheet and sheetings, the Indian Standards Institution also defines 'sheets' as a piece of plastic 'sheeting' produced as an individual piece rather than in a continuous length or cut as an individual piece from a continuous length, Collector of Customs v. K. Mohan & Co., AIR 1989 SC 2250: (1989) Supp 2 SCC 337: (1989) Supp 1 SCR 231....
Charge-sheet
Charge-sheet, a paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in each case. It is under the care of the inspector on duty. Unless the accuser is willing to sign the charge-sheet, the accused will generally not be detained.--The expression 'charge-sheet' is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the Code, described as a 'charge-sheet', Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ss. 170, 169 and 173 (2)]Military law. A four part charging instrument containing (1) information about the accused and the witness, (2) the charges and specifications, (3) the preferring of charges and their referral to a summary. Special or general court-martial for trial, and (4) for a summary court-martial, the trial record, Black's...
Sheet
Sheet, a sheet, is basically a very thin and broad piece of any substance normally of a regular shape, Chheda Industries v. Collector of Customs, AIR 1997 SC 2080 (2082): (1997) 6 SCC 88. [Customs Tariff Act, 1975, Schedule I, Chap Note 1(n) and Heading 43.13]Means a film roll of indefinite length and not in the form of individual cut pieces can be more appropriately described as 'sheeting' rather than 'sheets', Collector of Customs v. K. Mohan & Co., (1989) Supp 2 SCC 337....
Balance sheet total
Balance sheet total, means in relation to a company's financial year (1) where in the company's accounts format 1 of the Balance Sheet formats is adopted, the aggregate of the amounts shown in the Balance Sheet under the heading corresponding to items A to D in that format, and (2) where format 2 is adopted, the aggregate of the amounts shown under the general heading 'Assets', Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 7(1), 4th Edn., Para 860, p. 631....
Final report, charge-sheet
Final report, charge-sheet, the expressions 'charge-sheet' or 'final-report' are not used in the Code, but it is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the code, described as a 'charge-sheet'. In case of reports sent under s. 169, i.e., where there is no sufficiency of evidence to justify forwarding of a case to a Magistrate, it is termed variously i.e., referred charge, final report or summary, Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal PC, 1973, ss. 169, 170 and 173(2)]...
Sheetful
Enough to fill a sheet as much as a sheet can hold...
Balance sheet date
Balance sheet date, means the date as at which the Balance Sheet is prepared, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 7(1), 4th Edn., Para 75, p. 60....
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