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syndicalism [French syndicalisme, from (chambre) syndicale trade union, from chambre chamber + syndicale, feminine of syndical of or relating to a syndic or to a committee that assumes the powers of a syndic, from syndic government office] : a doctrine or practice promoting the revolutionary seizure of government and industry see also criminal syndicalism ...
syndicate
syndicate [French syndicat the office or jurisdiction of a syndic] 1 : a group organized to carry out a particular transaction or enterprise 2 : an association of organized criminals [sin-di-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to form or manage as or through a syndicate [a syndicated tax shelter] vi : to unite to form a syndicate syn·di·ca·tion [sin-di-kā-shən] n ...
syndicator
syndicator : one that syndicates ;esp : one that organizes investment in limited partnerships by different parties ...
Organised crime syndicate
Organised crime syndicate, means a group of two or more persons who, acting either singly or collectively, as a syndicate or gang indulge in activities of organised crime. [The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999, s. 2(f)]...
Syndicate
Syndicate. A body of persons taking part jointly in some venture or undertaking; commercially, a body of persons associated temporarily for the purpose of buying a private business or other property and selling it at a profit-usually to a limited company. Private companies formed to carryout and complete some pending operation or transaction, or some contemplated operation or transaction, are commonly called Syndicates, Palmer's Co. Prec., pt. I....
criminal syndicalism
criminal syndicalism : advocacy of unlawful means (as acts of violence) to bring about a change in industry or government compare sabotage, sedition ...
syndic
syndic [French, government officer, from Late Latin syndicus, from Greek syndikos court assistant, advocate, from syn- together with + dikē right, judgment] in the civil law of Louisiana : a trustee of property owned by an insolvent or bankrupt debtor ...
Syndic
Syndic, an advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator, an assignee, Civ. Law. See In the Goods of Eliz. Darke (deceased), (1860) 29 LJ (Prob M & A) 71....
Organised crime
Organised crime, in Europe, the terms 'organised crime' and 'professional crime' are largely inter-changeable. As compared to American standards, the European criminal orgainsations are small-scale and short-lived. Such crimes are defined as involving system of specifically defined relation-ship with mutual obligation and privileges and association of a small group of criminals for the execution of the intended crime. The eruption of organised crime in India is of recent origin and is at the initial stage. It is the need of the hour to control such criminal activities which tempt the persons involved to amass huge profit. Such crimes have not only a legal facet but have a social and economic aspect which is required to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1.Means any continuing unlawful activity...
Amalgamation
Amalgamation, in amalgamation two or more companies are fused into one by merger or by taking over by another. Reconstruction or 'amalgamation' has no precise legal meaning. The amalgamation is a blending of two or more existing undertakings into one undertaking, the share-holders of each blending company become substantially the shareholders in the company which is to carry on the blended undertakings. There may be amalgamation either by the transfer of two or more undertakings to a new company, or by the transfer of one or more undertakings to an existing company. Strictly 'amalgamation' does not cover the mere acquisition by a company of the share capital of other company which remains in existence and continues its undertaking but the context in which the term is used may show that it is intended to include such an acquisition, Saraswati Industrial Syndicate Ltd. v. C.I.T., 1990 Supp SCC 675 (679).Amalgamation, in an amalgamation two or more companies are fused into one by merger o...
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