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Usual common form, means the articles of association sometimes provide that the transfer of shares should be in writing, and in the 'usual common form'. This expression means that everything which is material to the transfer must be in the usual common form. It does not mean that the transfer is bad if the ifs are not properly dotted, and the it's are not properly crossed, Letheby and Christopher, Ltd., (1904) 1 Ch 815....
Coherer
Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves so called by Sir O J Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere or weld together a condition easily destroyed by tapping A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts between terminal wires or plugs called conductor plugs...
diabetes
Any of several diseases which is attended with a persistent excessive discharge of urine when used without qualification the term usually refers to diabetes mellitus The most common form is diabetes mellitus in which the urine is not only increased in quantity but contains saccharine matter and the condition if untreated is generally fatal...
Paper
Paper, includes vellum parchment or any other material or which an instrument may be written, Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1999, s. 2(xxvi).Paper. As to the paper on which proceedings in the Supreme Court must be printed, see PRINTING.It includes vellum, parchment or any other material on which an instrument may be written. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (18)]The word 'paper' admittedly not having been defined either in the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly or generally understood. The said word which is derived from the name of reedy plant papyrus and grows abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made ...
paranoia
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect systematized delusion and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called ldquocranksrdquo Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration and many have hallucinations esp of sight and hearing...
union
union 1 : an act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one ;esp : the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and individual units 2 : something that is made one : something formed by a combining or coalition of its members: as a : a confederation of independent individuals (as nations or persons) for some common purpose b : a political unit constituting an organic whole formed usually from previously independent units (as England and Scotland in 1707) which have surrendered their principal powers to the government of the whole or to a newly created government (as the U.S. in 1789) c : labor union ...
Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...
Guinea pig
A small Brazilian rodent Cavia porcellus or Cavia cobaya about seven inches in length and usually of a white color with spots of orange and black Called also cavy It is the domesticated form of the wild cavy often kept as a pet and used commonly as an experimental animal in laboratory research...
Silicon
A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon It always occurs combined in nature and is artificially obtained in the free state usually as a dark brown amorphous powder or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster Its oxide is silica or common quartz and in this form or as silicates it is next to oxygen the most abundant element of the earths crust Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom as carbon is of the organic world Symbol Si Atomic weight 28 Called also silicium...
Syndicate
Syndicate. A body of persons taking part jointly in some venture or undertaking; commercially, a body of persons associated temporarily for the purpose of buying a private business or other property and selling it at a profit-usually to a limited company. Private companies formed to carryout and complete some pending operation or transaction, or some contemplated operation or transaction, are commonly called Syndicates, Palmer's Co. Prec., pt. I....
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