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Home Dictionary Name: teaInstant tea
Instant tea, the term 'instant tea' gives a meaning that it is a 'tea', which can be prepared/used instantaneously. Merely because the product is known as 'instant tea', it does not cease to be known commercially as 'tea'. Whether tea is consumed as hot beverage or a cold beverage depending upon one's liking and taste, it does not make any difference in deciding whether it is a tea falling within the definition of s. 3(n) of the Act. Preparation of tea and the process of manufacture of 'instant tea' powder cannot take away 'instant tea' out of definition of 'tea' under the Act, CCE v. Tata Tea Ltd., AIR 2002 SC 2046 (2047). [Tea Act, 1953, ss. 3(n) and 25]...
Tea
Tea, means tea plant and includes tea leaves, Goodricke Group Ltd. v. State of West Bengal, 1995 Supp (1) SCC 707. [Tea Act, 1953, s. 3(n)]The Sale of Food (Weights and Measures) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 63), makes it an offence to sell tea otherwise than by net weight and in multiples of ounces and pounds. Tea was first taxed in 1660 (12 Car. 2, c. 23) as a beverage at 8d. a gallon, and afterwards in the leaf at 5s. per lb. in 1688 (1 W. & M. Sess. 2, c. 6...
Adulteration
Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
Bohea
Bohea tea an inferior kind of black tea See under Tea...
caffein
A white bitter crystallizable substance found in coffee and tea It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves and with guaranine from guarana It is responsible for most of the stimulating effect of coffee or tea...
Congou
Black tea of higher grade finer leaf and less dusty than the present bohea Also called English breakfast tea See Tea...
Caddy
A small box can or chest to keep tea in also called tea caddy...
Cha
Tea the Chinese Mandarin name used generally in early works of travel and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia...
VerbarMate
The Paraguay tea being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly Ilex Paraguensis The infusion has a pleasant odor with an agreeable bitter taste and is much used for tea in South America...
Oolong
A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea...
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