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Home Dictionary Name: stoneStone-breaking
Stone-breaking, the word 'stone' as popularly understood in ordinary parlance particularly when is it coupled with the word 'breaking' or 'crushing' would exclude manganese. When we speak of stone-breaking or stone-crushing normally we refer to stone in the sense of 'piece of rock' and that would exclude manganese. Employment in stone-braking or stone-crushing in tis sense would refer to quarry operations...............' (AIR 1960 SC 1068), Labour Inspector (Central) Hyderabad v. Chittapore Stone Crushing Co., AIR 1972 SC 1177 (1180): (1972) 3 SCC 605. (Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Sch. Part I, Item 8]...
Rocking stone
A stone often of great size and weight resting upon another stone and so exactly poised that it can be rocked or slightly moved with but little force...
Dowle stones
Dowle stones, stones dividing lands, etc....
Dry stone
Constructed of uncemented stone...
Gravel stone
A pebble or small fragment of stone a calculus...
Ro setta stone
A stone found at Rosetta in Egypt bearing a trilingual inscription by aid of which with other inscriptions a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt...
Black stone lawyer
Black stone lawyer, means a lawyer with a broad knowledge of blackletter principles; A self-educated lawyer (especially in antebellum America) whose legal training consists primarily of reading Blackstone's Commentaries, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 163....
Jewellery
Jewellery, the terms 'jewel' and 'jewellery', refer to articles of value used for adornment, especially those made from gold, silver or precious stones. The terms are, therefore wide enough to cover not merely precious stones or articles of adornment made with the use of precious stones, but also other articles of value made from gold, silver, platinum or precious metals. Ordinarily speaking, when a person talks about jewellery, the includes orna-ments which are made of gold, silver or any other precious metal also irrespective of whether these articles have precious stones embedded in them or not, CWT v. Binapani Chakravarty, AIR 1995 SC 1380 (1382): (1995) Supp 2 SCC 262. [Wealth Tax Act (27 of 1957), s. 5(1) (viii)]...
Quarry
Quarry. As any place, not being a mine in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals, quarries are comprised in the list of non-textile factories and workshops given in Part II. of Sched. VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. See FACTORY. They are also subjected to inspection under the Metalliferous Mines Acts by the Quarries Act, 1894. As to the fencing of Quarries, see Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887; A.G. v. Roe, (1915) 1 Ch 235. The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Board of Trade by 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 50. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Mines and Quarries.'As a noun the term 'quarry' has been defined as the spot where rock is quarried....an excavation or other place from which stone is taken by cutting, blasting or the like. It is open excavation usually for obtaining building stone, slate or limestone, Labour Inspector v. Chittapur Stone Quarrying Co. (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 1177: (1972) 3 SCC 605: (1973) 1 SCR 83....
Flagstone
A flat stone used in paving or any rock which will split into such stones See Flag a stone...
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