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Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning standing as a sign or token expressive or suggestive as a significant word or sound a significant look...
Label and significant characteristics test - securities
Label and significant characteristics test - securities. The rule that an instrument will be governed by the securities laws if it is labeled a stock and has the significant characteristics typically associated with shares of stock, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 878....
Significance
The quality or state of being significant...
Significantly
In a significant manner...
Causam nobis significes quare
Causam nobis significes quare, a writ to a mayor of a town, etc., who was by the king's writ demanded to give seisin of lands to the king's grantee; on his delaying to do it, requiring him to show cause why he so delayed the performance of his duty....
substantial
substantial 1 a : of or relating to substance b : not illusory : having merit [failed to raise a constitutional claim] c : having importance or significance : material [a step had not been taken toward commission of the crime "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 2 : considerable in quantity : significantly great [would be a abuse of the provisions of this chapter "U.S. Code"] compare de minimis sub·stan·ti·al·i·ty [-stan-chē-a-lə-tē] n sub·stan·tial·ly adv ...
kibbutz
an Israeli communal2 form of agricultural settlement Originally it was predominantly agricultural and practiced a very high level of sharing including collective rearing of children More recently by 1998 industries have taken over a significant role in the Kibbutz economy and the level of sharing has dropped significantly...
parity bit
The bit within a data structure which is assigned a value of 1 or 0 so as to make the parity7 of the data structure odd or even Data structures may or may not have parity bits dpending on whether the system does or does not perform parity checking The most commonly used parity bit is the eigth higher order bit of a byte which is used when data transmission uses only the 7 lower order bits of each byte as significant data some memory systems use a ninth bit as a parity bit for each eight bits one byte of significant data in memory...
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...
Development consent
Development consent, for public and private pro-jects which are likely to have significant effects on the environment should be granted only offer prior assessment of the likely significant environmental effects of these projects has been carried out whereas this assessment must be conducted on the basis of the appropriate information supplied by the developer, which may be supplemented by the authorities and by the people who may be concerned by the project in question, Regina v. North Yorks C.C., Ex parte Brown [HL(E)], (1999) 2 WLR 452.The decision of the competent authority or authorities which entitles the developer to proceed with the project, Reg. v. North Yorks C.C., Ex parte Brown [HL(E)], (2000) 1 AC LR 397....
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