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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)]...
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)]...
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....
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)]...
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...
Wires, Overhead
Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....
Telephone connection
Telephone connection, means a telephone sub-scriber is usually connected by way of a loop (two or four wire line) to a local telephone exchange or end (central) office. End offices are in turn inter-connected via a hierarchy of switching centres. The connection medium between centres is called a trance, which consists physically of cable, coaxial cable, or microwave radio links', New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15 Edn., Vol. 28, p. 511 [See also Telegraph Act, (13 of 1885), s. 3]; N. Krishna Devaraya v. Union of India, AIR 1996 Kant 189.Means an apparatus, system or process for the transmission of sound or speech to a distant point; and the word 'connection' means 'the act of connecting or the state of being connected'. The expression 'telephone connection' would mean in common parlance 'connecting two telephone apparatus' so as to enable the caller to avail the speech transmission facility with a desired person, New Webster's Dictionary'.The words 'telephone connection' would mean conne...
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