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Home Dictionary Name: small holdings Page: 2 Page 2 of about 36 results (0.003 seconds)Development Commissioners
Development Commissioners, means the Develop-ment Commissioner appointed for one or more Special Economic Zones under sub-s. (1) and s. 11 [Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) s. 2(h)]Eight persons so named can be appointed by the king, who also nominates the chairman, under s. 3 of the (English) Development and Road Improve-ment Funds Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 47), as amended by the (English) Act of 1910 (10 Edw. 7 and 1 Geo. 5, c. 7); 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 72; 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 21. The Commissioners are appointed for the purposes of recommendation to the Treasury in regard to advances which the Treasury is empowered to make out of a fund to be called the Development Fund created and provided for by the (English) Act of 1909, for any of the following purposes:--(a) Aiding and developing agricultural and rural industries by promoting scientific research, instruc-tion and experiments in the science, methods and practice of agriculture (including the provision of farm institutes), ...
Cultivation
Cultivation, plants sprouted by natural growth, do not amount to cultivation, Alakh Ram v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2004) 1 SCC 766. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, s. 8(b)]Includes horticulture and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry including keeping or breeding livestock, poultry or bees, and growing fruit, vegetables and the like, Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61(1) (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1, p. 3.Cultivation, are deemed to include horticulture and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry, or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables, and the like, Agricultural Credits Act, 1928, s. 5(7) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 551, p. 295....
Creation of a new smallholding
Creation of a new smallholding, must be construed as references to any letting of land by a small holdings authority or by the minister where (1) the land is held by it or him for the purposes of smallholdings and the letting is a letting of the land as a smallholding; (2) immediately before the letting the land or part of it is being used otherwise than as land held and let as mentioned in (1); and (3) Agriculture Act, 1970, s. 37(3) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 89, p. 49....
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Grapnel
A small anchor with four or five flukes or claws used to hold boats or small vessels hence any instrument designed to grapple or hold a grappling iron a grab written also grapline and crapnel...
Inkstand
A small vessel for holding ink to dip the pen into also a device for holding ink and writing materials...
mortarboard
A small square board with a handle beneath for holding mortar a hawk used by masons to hold or carry mortar...
pyramid
pyramid 1 : a group of holding companies superimposed on one another to give those in control of the top holding company control over all of the companies with a small investment 2 : the series of operations involved in pyramiding on an exchange 3 : a pyramid scheme vi : to speculate (as on a security or commodity exchange) by using paper profits as a margin for additional transactions vt 1 : to use (as profits) in speculative pyramiding 2 : to increase the impact of (as a tax assessed at the production level) on the ultimate consumer by treating as a cost subject to markup adj : of, relating to, or being an illegal scheme in which participants give money or other valuables in exchange for the opportunity to receive payment for recruiting others to participate in the scheme ...
Egg glass
A small sandglass running about three minutes for marking time in boiling eggs also a small glass for holding an egg at table...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
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