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total incorporation : a doctrine in constitutional law: the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause embraces all the guarantees in the Bill of Rights and applies them to cases under state law compare selective incorporation NOTE: The total incorporation doctrine has never been adopted by a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court. The majority opinions of the Supreme Court have instead adhered to a fundamental fairness standard or applied selective incorporation in determining whether a state has violated the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. ...
incorporate
incorporate -rat·ed -rat·ing vt 1 : to unite with something else to form a whole [ the agreement into the divorce] 2 : to form (as a business) into a legal corporation 3 : to include (rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights) within the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment see also selective incorporation, total incorporation vi : to form a legal corporation in·cor·po·ra·tion [in-kȯr-pə-rā-shən] n incorporate by reference : to make (the terms of a contemporaneous or earlier document) part of another document (as a codicil) by specific reference in that document see also republish ...
selective incorporation
selective incorporation : a theory or doctrine of constitutional law that those rights guaranteed by the first eight amendments to the U.S. Constitution that are fundamental to and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty are incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause compare total incorporation ...
Constructive total loss
Constructive total loss, a term used in the law of marine insurance to denote a loss which entitles the assured to claim the whole amount of his insurance, on giving to the assurers notice of abandonment. Generally there is a constructive total loss when the subject-matter assured has not actually perished or lost its form or species, but has, by one of the perils insured against, been reduced to such a state or placed in such a position as to make its total destruction, though not inevitable, yet highly imminent, or its ultimate arrival under the terms of the policy, though not utterly hopeless, yet exceedingly doubtful. In such a case the assured, by giving notice within a reasonable time to the assurers of abandonment, i.e., the relinquishment of all his right to whatever may be saved, is entitled to recover against them as for a total loss.If notice is not given, the loss is treated as a partial loss unless the ship in fact has become a total loss or if there would be no possibilit...
Gross total income
Gross total income, in view of s. 47(viii), the com-pensation which become payable to the appellant as a result of the acquisition of its agricultural land in 1962, was totally exempt from s. 45. Con-sequently, it did not amount to 'income' within the scope of section 2(24)(vi) as there was no capital gain within the meaning of s. 45. It was also not to be included while computing the total income of the appellant as defined in s. 2(45) of the Act. Thus, the amount of compensation received by the appellant could not have formed part of the 'gross total income' within the meaning of section 109(iv) of the Act, Income Tax Act, 1961 ss. 2(24)(vi), 2(45), 45, 47(viii) and ss. 109(iv) & (i); Delhi Farming & Construction (P) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax Delhi, (2003) 5 SCC 36; Also Caradamom Marketing Co. (Trav.) Ltd. v. CIT, (1986) 158 ITR 621 (Ker)....
Total disablement
Total disablement, means such disablement whether of a temporary or permanent nature as incapacities a workman for all work which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Mohd. Saleem Khan, (1992) 2 Civ LJ 46. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. 2(1)(l)]The expression 'total disablement' has been defined in s. 2(1) of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 as follows: (1) 'total disablement' means such disablement, whether of a temporary or permanent nature, as incapacitates workman for all work which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement, Pratap Narain Singh Deo v. Shrinivas Sabata, AIR 1976 SC 222: (1976) 1 SCC 289: (1976) 2 SCR 872....
Total income
Total income, the expression 'total income' is defined in s. 2(45) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as meaning the total amount of income referred to in s. 5 computed in the manner laid down in this Act, Cambay Electric Supply Industrial Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1978 SC 1099: (1978) 2 SCC 644: (1978) 3 SCR 660....
articles of incorporation
articles of incorporation :a document by which a corporation is formed that sets forth basic information (as the corporation's name, purpose, directors, and stock) usu. as required by statute see also certificate of incorporation compare bylaws charter NOTE: In most states a corporation is created upon the filing of the articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. ...
certificate of incorporation
certificate of incorporation 1 : a certificate issued by a state's secretary of state that shows acceptance of a corporation's articles of incorporation 2 : articles of incorporation ...
Incorporative
Incorporating or tending to incorporate as the incorporative languages as of the Basques North American Indians etc which run a whole phrase into one word...
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