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Free trade throughout the territory of India

Free trade throughout the territory of India, Article 301 Constitution of India mandates free trade, commerce and intercourse throughout the territory of India. Interstate trade has, therefore, to be free from trade barriers. The mobility of goods throughout the territory of India has to be free. Free trade throughout the territory of India would be one with no tariffs and no restrictions or disadvantages of any kind of importing or exporting from the different States. Free trade means complete freedom of interstate trade without any restrictions on the movement of goods between the States, State of Bihar v. Harihar Prasad, AIR 1989 SC 1119 (1125): (1989) 2 SCC 192: (1989) 1 SCR 796. [Constitution of India Art. 301]...


Throughout

Throughout, means where a codicil revokes the appointment of an executor and substitutes another person in his stead and goes on to declare that the Will shall be construed as though the name of such other person had throughout the Will been used instead of that of the person whose executorship was revoked, that generally will not revoke personal benefits given by the Will to the person whose executorship is revoked, Freeman (in re:), (1910) 1 Ch. 681....


Per

A prefix used to signify through throughout by for or as an intensive as perhaps by hap or chance perennial that lasts throughout the year perforce through or by force perfoliate perforate perspicuous evident throughout or very evident perplex literally to entangle very much...


Amnesty International

Amnesty International, means an international non-governmental organization founded in the early 1960s to protect human rights throughout the world. Its mission is to 'secure throughout the world the observance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights'. Amnesty Int. L Statute, Article 1....


Bishop

Bishop [fr. 'plokopoV, Gk. Biscop, Sax.], an overseer or superintendent. The chief of the clergy in his diocese or jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by the king's cong' d' 'lire, or license to elect the person named by the king, accompanied, by virtue of 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, by a letter-missive, addressed to the dean and chapter; and if they fail to make election in twelve days, the king, by letters-patent, may nominate whom he pleases. A bishop is said to be installed, and there are four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be opposed on doctrinal grounds: see Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1902 KB 503, under title CONFIRMATION OF BISHOPS; (3) consecration, similar to institution; (4) installation, answering to induction. The bishop are the lords spiritual in Parliament: see HOUSE OF LORDS....


Local Government

Local Government. That part of the government of the country which, by delegation from the Imperial Government, is conducted the bodies appointed or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL; PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH COUNCIL.Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The Act established county councils throughout England and Wales, and has been amended and extended by many other Acts.Transfer of Imperial Powers to County Councils.--The (English) Local Government (Transfer of Powers) Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 15), though permissive only, extended general, tentative, unsued and almost unknown powers of decentralization which had previously been entrusted to the Local Government Board by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. The (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 7...


Money

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...


Money Bill

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...


Permanent workman

Permanent workman, to be a permanent workman within the definition it is not necessary that the workman should be engaged throughout the year. What is necessary is that the work on which he is engaged is of a permanent nature and lasts throughout the year, Jaswant Sugar Mills v. Badri Prasad, AIR 1967 SC 513 (514). [Industrial Employment Standing (Orders) Act, 1946, s. 2(1)]...


bankruptcy court

bankruptcy court : a court that is a unit of a federal District Court and has original jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases NOTE: Bankruptcy courts were created by Congress as part of the 1898 Bankruptcy Act. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to establish “uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.” ...


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