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Betel leaves, the leaf of an Asian ever green climbing plant, which is chewed and used as a stimulant. Oxford Dictionary. Betel leaves are not vegetables, Ram Bux v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1963 SC 351 (352). (Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954, Sch. 2, Item 2)...
Bhatha land
Bhatha land, The expression 'bhatha land' means land which forms part of the bed of a river on which vegetables, melon, cucumber, etc., can be grown during the lean period after the rainy season is over when the level of the water in the river is quite low. The cultivation of this land is possible only till the next rainy season and when the river swells during the rainy season, the said land again gets submerged under the river water, State of Gujarat v. V.D. Chaturbhai, (1980) 3 SCC 318 (320): (1980) 2 SCR 1182....
Colorado beetle
Colorado beetle. A insect indigenous to Colorado, one of the United States of America, so destructive to vegetables that the (English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 68), was passed to prevent its introduction into Great Britain by means of orders (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Agriculture') prohibiting or regulating the landing of potatoes, etc., likely to introduce it, and giving powers to destroy crops on which it may be found, and compensation to persons whose crops may be destroyed accordingly....
Vegetable processing
Vegetable processing, the use of the word process-ing is also significant. Processing of vegetable products industry are normally understood in the sense they relate processing of vegetables which even after processing retain its character as vegetable, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, (1992) 1 SCC 418: AIR 1992 SC 224 (228)....
Market garden
Market garden. A garden on which vegetables and fruit are grown for sale. The (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908, which repealed the (English) Market Gardens Compensation Act, 1895, has itself been repealed and replaced by the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, which consolidated the law relating to Agricultural Holdings (see that title). S. 57 of this last Act defines a 'market garden' as meaning 'a holding cultivated wholly or mainly for the purpose of the trade or business of market gardening.' Market garden includes part of private premises so treated, Saunders Jacob v. Yates, (1933) 2 KB 240. Schedule III. gives the special improvements for which a market gardener can claim compensation; and see special provisions in ss. 48 and 49. See HOLDING...
Market or bazar
Market or bazar, means any place, by whatever name called, where persons assemble for the sale of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, live stock or any other article of food or merchandise, declared and licensed by the municipality as a market. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(32)]...
Plant material
Plant material, means any material used for pro-pagation and raising of fruit plants and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, suckers, roots, seeds and cuttings. [The Orissa Fruit Nurseries (Regula-tion) Act, 1997, s. 2(f)]Means the material used for propagation and raising of horticultural plant, and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, sucker, root seed, cutting, seedlings, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, grafts, goodies, other vegetatively propagated material of food crops including vegetables, fruits and flowers. [The West Bengal Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2001, s. 2(f)]...
Sugarcane
Sugarcane, in Webster's dictionary 'sugar-cane' has been defined as 'a grass extensively grown in tropical and warm regions for its sugar' and in Oxford dictionary it is defined as 'a fall perennial grass cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical countries and forming the chief source of unmanu-factured sugar'. Therefore it cannot be said that sugar-cane falls within the definition of the words 'green vegetables', Motipur Zamindary Co. (Pvt.) Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1962 SC 660 (662): 1962 Supp (1) SCR 498....
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an arrest for crime can be effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:-No tradesmen, artificers, workmen, labourers, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary callings [barbers are not within the enactment: Palmer v. Snow, (1900) 1 QB 725] upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted).The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday).The (English) Shops (Sunday...
Vegetable product
Vegetable product, means product of or made of or out of vegetables, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, AIR 1992 SC 228.Vegetable product, must be construed neither in a technical sense nor from the botanical point of view. It should be understood as understood in common parlance. 'Vegetable products' are not defined in the Act, but is a phrase of every day use and so must be construed in its popular sense, if the popular sense meaning is given to vegetable products, it is impossible to say that latex is a vegetable product, Harrisons Malayalam Limited v. Kerala State Pollution Control Board, AIR 1992 Ker 168; See also Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977, Sch. I, Item 15....
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