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Home Dictionary Name: telegraphicTelegraph line
Telegraph line, 'telegraph line' means a wire or wires used for the purpose of an appliance or apparatus for receiving telegraphic or other communications by means of electricity. The wires of the aerial as well as of the apparatus are used for the purpose of the apparatus receiving communications. If so, it follows that the receiving apparatus employs 'telegraph lines' within the meaning of s. 3(4) of the Telegraph Act, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (161): (1962) 3 SCR 146. [Telegraph Act, 1885, s. 3(1) 2(4)]Means a wire or wires used for the purpose of a telegraph, with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same, and any appliances and apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of fixing or insulating the same. [Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885), s. 3 (4)]Telegraph line, is comprehensive to take in the wires used for the purpose of the apparatus of the post and telegraph wireless station, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan...
Telegraphs
Telegraphs. See the Telegraph (Construction) Acts, 1863 to 1925, by which provisions are made for transferring telegraphs to the Postmaster-General. Telegraph means a wire or wires used for the purpose of telegraphic communication, with any casing, coating, tube, or pipe inclosing the same, and any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of telegraphic communication, and any apparatus for transmitting messages or other communications by mans of electric signals (Acts of 1863, s. 3, and 1869, s. 3). This definition includes telephones. The destruction or removal of an electric telegraph or the obstruction of message is a misdemeanour by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 37, 38 and as to offences in regard to telephones, see Post Office Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 15). See WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. As to the monopoly possessed by Government by means of the exclusive privileges given by the Acts to the Postmaster-General, see Postmaster-General v. National Telephone Co., 1909, AC 269...
Radio set - telegraph
Radio set - telegraph, a radio set receiving communications should equally be a telegraph within the meaning of the said section, for a radio set receives communications by means of electricity, State of Bihar v. Mangal Sau, AIR 1963 SC 445 (446). [Telegraph Act, 1885 s. 3(i)]...
Any dispute concerning any telegraph line, appliance or apparatus
Any dispute concerning any telegraph line, appliance or apparatus, is of wide amplitude and will take within its sweep all kinds of disputes which relate to the functioning and working of any telegraph line, apparatus or appliance, Union of India v. M/s Usha Spinning and Weaving Mills Ltd., AIR 1982 Del 111....
Telegraph
Telegraph, means any appliance, instrument, material or apparatus used or capable of use for transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, visual or other electro-magnetic emissions, Radio waves or Hertzian waves, galvanic, electric or magnetic means. [Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885), s. 3 (1)]...
Electro telegraphic
Pertaining to the electric telegraph or by means of it...
Message
Message, means any communication sent by telegraph, or given to a telegraph officer to be sent by telegraph or to be delivered. [Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885), s. 3(3)]...
Post office
Post office, the expression 'post office' includes every house, building, room, carriage or place used for the purposes of the Post Office, and every letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles. [(Indian) Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(h)]The Government service of the carriage of letters, first established in 1643. Regulated by statutes 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 33; 1 & 2 Vict. cc. 97, 98; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96 (the Post Office (Duties) Act, 1840, which established penny postage), and many other Acts, which are consolidated by the Post Office Act, 1908, as amended by subsequent Acts. Besides its monopoly in respect of letters, telegraphs and wireless telegraphy (q.v.) and telephones (q.v.), it carries on the business of a carrier of parcels, a savings bank, life assurance, the transmission of money by postal orders and money orders, and pays old age pensions. See also (English) Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1920; (English) Post Office (Parcels) Act, 192...
Tree
Tree. Overhanging branches may be cut by an adjoining owner without notice to the owner of the tree, provided that the adjoining owner does not go upon the land of the owner of the tree, Lemmon v. Webb, 1895 AC 1. No right can be acquired by prescription for trees to overhang: per Lord Macnaghten, ibid.; and an action lies for damage to crops by overhanging trees, Smith v. Giddy, (1904) 1 KB 448.By the highway Act, 1835, ss. 64-66, no tree may be planted within 15 feet of the centre of a highway. See Stillwell v. New Windsor Corpn., (1932) 2 Ch 155 (highway authority removing trees transplanted on ancient highway).Power to plant trees is given to all highway authorities by the Roads Improvement Act, 1925, and also the removal of trees on adjacent land which obstruct the view at corners.As to the power to lop trees overhanging any street or public road in order to prevent interference with a telegraphic line, see the Telegraph (Construction) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 33). See TELEGRAPHS; ...
Wireless telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy, defined in the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 24), s. 7, and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo.5, c. 67), s. 1, as meaning 'any system of communication by telegraph as defined in the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1904, without the aid of any wire connecting the points from and at which the messages or other communications are sent and received,' it being also provided that nothing in the Act shall prevent any person from making or using electrical apparatus for actuating machinery or for any purpose other than the transmission, including the reception as well as the sending, of messages. The Act of 1924 prohibits the establishment of any wireless telegraph station, or the establishment or working of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, in any place or onboard any British ship, except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Postmaster-General. Search-warrants may be issued by order of the Postmaster-General, the Admiralty, Army Council, Air Co...
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