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Home Dictionary Name: transportation Page: 2Commercial air transport services
Commercial air transport services, means services for the carriage by air of passengers and cargo for hire or reward (or valuable consideration); see the Civil Aviation Act, 1982, s. 63(2) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1065, p. 509....
Deportation
Deportation, transportation; exile in to a remote part of the kingdom, with prohibition to change the place of residence. The (English) Penal Servitude Acts, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 99), and 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 3), substituted terms of penal servitude for transportation sentences for less than fourteen years, and the latter Act abolished transportation entirely. See TRANSPORTATION. Exile, an abjuration, which is a deportation for ever into a oreign land, was anciently with us a civil death. Compare the power of making an expulsion order or deportation order under Order of the Secretary of State, under the (English) Aliens Restriction Acts, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 12), and 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 92). See ALIEN, and Re Goldfarb, (1936) 52 TLR 254....
Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, means any motor vehicle as defined in clause (28) of s. 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988) constructed or adapted for use for transportation of goods or any motor vehicle not so constructed or adapted when used for the transportation of goods and includes a trailer attached to such vehicle and any means of transportation including an animal to carry goods from one point to another point, [The West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(16)]...
Handling
Handling, in relation to any hazardous substance, means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage transportation by vehicle, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer or the like of such hazardous substance. [National Environment Tribunal Act, 1995 (27 of 1995), s. 2 (e).Means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation by vehicle, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer or the like of such hazardous substance, Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2(c).Means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer or the like of such substance. Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), s. 2(d)...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Permit
Permit, a licence. An instrument granted by the officers of excise, certifying that the excise duties on certain goods have been paid, and permitting their removal from some specified place to another.Means a permit issued by a State or Regional Transport Authority or an authority prescribed in this behalf under this Act authorising the use of a motor vehicle as a transport vehicle. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (31)]The word 'permit' is to be understood indicative of a formal consent, grant or authorization or to giving of express licence, Ram Singh Pritam Singh v. Chief Commissioner, AIR 1968 P&H 470.Means giving a passing consent or just, not hindering permit has been used in certain contexts as meaning 'to resign' 'to suffer' and not to prohibit etc., Ram Singh Pritam Singh v. Chief Commissioner, Union Territory, Chandigarh, AIR 1968 Punj 470.Means one or two things: either to give leave for an act which without that leave could not be legally done, or to abstain fro...
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
Rigorous imprisonment for life
Rigorous imprisonment for life, means if a portion of the period of transportation for life is to be treated as sentence of rigorous imprisonment for the same term, naturally, the entire transportation period is to be treated as 'rigorous imprisonment for life', Mohd. Munna v. Union of India, (2005) 7 SCC 417....
Multimodal transport operator
Multimodal transport operator, means any person who--(i) concludes a multimodal transport contract on his own behalf or through another person acting on his behalf.(ii) acts as principal, and not as an agent either of the consignor or of the carrier participating in the multimodal transportation, and who assumes responsibility for the performance of the said contract; and(iii) is registered under sub-s. (3) of s. 4. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (m)]...
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