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State Road, means all public roads within the State and includes:(i) all lands appurtenant thereto;(ii) all approach roads, bridges, flyovers, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriage-ways and other structures on, over, along or across such roads; and(iii) all fences, trees, posts and boundaries, two hundred meter and kilometer stones of such roads, but does not include a National Highway....
Person
Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...
Route
Route, means a line of travel which specifies the highway which maybe traversed by a motor vehicle between one terminus and another. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (38)]Under s. 2(28A) inserted by s. 2 of Act 56 of 1969 the word 'route' has been defined as meaning 'a line of travel which specifies the highway which may be traversed by a motor vehicle between one terminus and another', Mysore State Road Transport Corporation v. Mysore State Transport Appellate Tribunal, AIR 1974 SC 1940: (1975) 1 SCR 615: (1974) 2 SCC 750.A route as defined is a line of travel between two termini on a highway, but the idea of a route as a notional line that the definition suggests has not been consistently maintained in the Act. A route may mean not only the notional line of travel between one terminus and another, but also the area of the road over which the motor vehicles ply. Yet the two terms are not inter-changeable, D. Papiah v. Mysore State Transport Appellate Tribunal, AIR 1976 SC 1731: (1976) ...
Just
Just, the expression 'just' denotes equitability, fairness and reasonableness, and non arbitrary. If it is not so it cannot be just (See Helen C. Rebello v. Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, AIR 1998 SC 3191), Divisional Controller KSTRC v. Mahadeva Shetty, AIR 2003 SC 4172 (4177): (2003) 7 SCC 197. (Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 163A and Schedule II)The word 'just' as its nomenclature, denotes equit-ability, fairness and reasonableness having large peripheral field. The largeness is, of course, not arbitrary; it is restricted by the conscience which is fair, reasonable and equitable, if it exceeds; it is termed as unfair, unreasonable, inequitable not just. In Law Lexicon, 5th Edn., by T.P. Mukherjee 'Just' is described:The term just' is derived from the latin word Justus. It has various meanings and its meaning is often governed by the context. 'Just' may apply in nearly all of its senses, either to ethics or law, denoting something which is morally right and fair and some...
Trunk Roads Act, 1936
Trunk Roads Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 5), provides that the Minister of Transport shall be the highway authority for the principal roads in Great Britain which constitute the national system of routes for through traffic. Such roads which become Trunk Roads are set out in the Schedule.By s. 13 road means a highway and includes any part of a highway and any prepared road and any bridge over which a highway passes or a proposed road is intended to pass, and trunk road shall be construed accordingly...
Road
Road, (1) a way or passage (see HIGHWAYS; WAY); (2) a secure place for the anchoring of vessels.Road, includes--(i) all lands appurtenant thereto,(ii) all approach roads, bridges, flyovers, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures or, over, along or across such roads, and(iii) all fences, trees, posts and boundary, two hundred -- metre and kilometre stones of such road,but does not include a National Highway. [Rajasthan Road Development Act, 2002, s. 2(d)]...
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Turnpike-roads
Turnpike-roads, ways maintained out of tolls not paid by passengers. These did not fall within the operation of the Highway Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 50), but were regulated primarily by the local Acts relative to each particular road, which, though temporary, were, until about the middle of the present century, almost invariably renewed by the legislature from time to time as they were about to expire; and in the next place by statutes of a general description, of which the principal was the consolidating 3 Geo. 4, c. 126, applicable (with very few exceptions) to all turnpike-roads-that is, all roads maintained by tolls, and placed under the management of trustees or commissioners for a limited period of time. This Act, however, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1890, with the exception of such provisions as are applied to dis-turnpiked roads by the Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Acts of 1865 and 1870. There were at one time many thousand turnpike trusts. in 1864 they numbered...
Private road
Private road, 'private road' means any street, road, square, court alley or passage which is not a public road and includes a pathway made by the owner on premises of his own land to secure access to, or the convenient use of, such premises. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(45)]...
Road fund
Road fund. A fund established under s. 3 of the Roads Act, 1920, for dealing with moneys applicable to the improvement of roads received under the Act, and also under Part II. of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909. The Fund is administered by the Ministry of Transport in accordance with these Acts and regulations made by the Treasury....
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