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Punctually

Punctually. Payment 'punctually' means payment on the day fixed for payment, Leeds and Hanley Theatre of Varieties v. Broadbent, (1898) 1 Ch 343. Payment 'duly' does not necessarily mean 'punctually', Starkey v. Barton, (1909) 1 Ch 284....


Production

Production, has a wider connotation than the word 'manufacture'. While every manufacture can be characterised as production, every production need not amount to manufacture, Commissioner of Income Tax v. NV Budharaga & Company, 1993 (70) Taxman 312: AIR 1993 SC 2529: 1993 Tax LR 1117: 1993 (2004) ITR 412: AIR 1993 SCW 3317.Means the separation of opium, poppy straw, coca leaves or cannabis from the plants from which they are obtained. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xxii)]In relation to a feature film, includes any of the activities in respect of the making thereof. [Cine-Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981 (5 of 1981), s. 2(i)]The word 'production' has a wider connotation than the word 'manufacture'. While every manufacture can be characterised as production, every production need not amount to manufacture. The word 'production' or 'produce' when used in juxtaposition with the word 'manufacture' takes in bri...


Producer

Producer, in relation to a cinematograph film or sound recording, means a person who takes the initiative and responsibility for making the work. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (uu)]In relation to a feature film, means the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of such film (including the raising of finances and engaging cine-workers for the making of such film) are undertaken. [Cine-workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulations of employment) Act, 1981 (5 of 1981), s. 2(h)]In relation to goods, means any person who,--(i) if such goods are agricultural goods, produces the goods and includes the person who processes or packages such goods;(ii) if such goods are natural goods, exploits the goods;(iii) if such goods are handicraft or industrial goods, makes or manufacture the goods, and includes any person who trades or deals in such production, exploitation, making or manufacturing, as the case may be, of the goods. [Geographical Indications of Goods (Registr...


Plant

Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 Pat LJR 868.Plant, has frequently been used in fiscal and other legislation. It is one of a fairly large category of words as to which no statutory definition is provided ('trade', office even 'income' are others), so that it is left to the court to interpret them. It naturally happens that as case follows case, and one extension leads to another, the meaning of the word gradually diverges from its natural or dictionary meaning. This is certainly true for plant, I.R.C. v. Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd., (1982) 1 WLR 322: (1982) 2 All ER 230: 55 TC 252 (HL).Plant, in the relevant sense, although admitted not a term of art, and therefore part of the general English tongue, is not, in this sense, an ordinary word, but one of imprecise application, an...


Licence

Licence [fr. licentia, Lat.], a permission given by one man to another to do some act which without such permission it would be unlawful for him to do. It is a personal right, and is not transferable, but dies with the man to whom it is given. It can as a rule be revoked by the licensor unless the licensee has paid money for it (Odgers on the Common Law, pp. 25, 574). As to the nature and effect of the licence granted to the purchaser of a ticket for a theatre or other similar entertainment, see Hurst v. Picture Theatres, (1915) 1 KB 1, and the authorities there referred to, and Allen & Sons v. King, (1916) 2 AC 54. It may be either written or verbal; when written, the paper containing the authority is often called a licence. A licence amounting to or coupled with an interest in an incorporeal hereditament must be under seal [see Wood v. Leadbitter, (1845) 13 M&W 838], or it may be revocable, but see Lowe v. Adams, (1901) 1 Ch 598.A licence is necessary before doing many acts, as to ma...


Chamberiain

Chamberiain [fr. Chambellan, Fr., custos cubiculi, cubicularius, Lat.], a person who has the management or direction of a chamber or chambers. It is variously used in our laws, statutes, and chronicles. Among the most important are (1) The Lord Great Chamberlain, an hereditary officer of the Crown, whose chief duties are performed at a Coronation, and who can appoint a deputy subject to the approval of the king (see CENSOR). (2) The Lord Chamberlain of the Household, an officer appointed by the sovereign, on the nomination of the Prime Minister; he has the oversight of all officers belonging to the king's household, and by the (English) Civil List Act, 1781 (22 Geo. 3, c. 82), s. 13, the care of the royal furniture, pictures and plate. He has also by the Theatres Act, 1843 (see THEATRE), the control of the London Theatres.The places in the House of Lords of 'the great Chamberleyn' and 'the King's Chamberleye' respectively are fixed by 31 Hen. 8, c. 10. (3) The Chamberlain of London kee...


Barnstormer

An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking hence an inferior actor or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities...


Goodwill

Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...


Admittance

Admittance, giving possession of a copyhold estate now abolished by the (English) L. P. Act, 1922. See COPYHOLDS; formerly it was of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the former tenant. (3) Upon descent, where the heir became tenant on his ancestor's death. Land formerly copyhold now being freehold vests in the person having the best right to be admitted, see (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Schedule (8) as amended, and (English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 202 and 1st Schedule, Part II., (English) S. L. Act, 1925, 2nd Schedule, and see re King's Theatre, (1929) 1 Ch 483....


Histrionic

Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer befitting a theatre theatrical...



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