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Water user

Water user, means and includes any individual or body corporate or a society, using water for agriculture, domestic, power, non-domestic commercial, industrial or any other purpose from a government source of irrigation. [Rajasthan Farmers' Participation in Management of Irrigation System Act, 2000, s. 2(x)]...

Osrabandi

Osrabandi, means and includes a system of distribu-tion of water allocation to one or more group of water users in proportion of command area of such group/groups indicating duration of such water allocation in a cycle of irrigation. [Rajasthan Farmers' Participation in Management of Irrigation System Act, 2000, s. 2(q)]...

Warabandi

Warabandi, means and includes a system of distribution of water allocation to water users by turn, according to an approved schedule indicating the day, duration and the time of supply. [Rajasthan Farmers Participation in Management of Irrigation System Act, 2000, s. 2(u)]...

Well

Well, means a well sunk for the search of extraction of ground water by any user, and includes as open well, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tube well, filter point, collector well or infiltration gallery, but does not include a well sunk by the Central Government for carrying out any scientific investigation or exploration work for the survey the assessment of ground water resources. [West Bengal Ground Water Resources (Management Control and Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...

Lost grant

Lost grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant, which had been 'lost', Braja Kishore Jagdev v. Lingraj Samantaray, (2000) 6 SCC 540.Lost grant, is a presumption which arises in cases of immemorial user. It has its origin from the long possession and exercise of right by user of an easement with the acquiescence of the owner that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant which had been lost, Konda Lakshmana Bapuji v. Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, (2002) 3 SCC 258.Lost grant, the doctrine has no application to the case of inhabitants of particular localities seeking to establish rights of user to some piece of land or water. Since the right originated in grant, its owners, whether original or by devolution, had to be such persons as were capable of being the recipients of a grant, and a right exercisable by the inhabitants of a village from time t...

User

User, means:(i) an individual, or(ii) an institution, organization or establishment, whether or not owned, maintained and managed by the State Government or the Central Govern-ment, or(iii) a company, including a Government Company, as defined in the Companies Act, 1956, or(iv) an industry, major, medium or minor,owning or using, on personal or community basis, ground water resources for domestic, agriculture, or industrial purpose or for any other purpose. [West Bengal Ground Water Resources (Manage-ment Control and Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(i)]...

Way

Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...

Boiler Explosions Act

Boiler Explosions Act, 1882 (English) (45 & 46Vict. c. 22), whereby detailed notice of an explosion from any boiler, i.e. (s. 3), 'any closed vessel used for generating steam, or for heating water, or for heating other liquids, or into which steam is admitted for heating, steaming, boiling, or other similar purposes,' must be sent within 24 hours by the 'owner or user,' or their agent, to the Board of Trade, who have power to order an inquiry with respect to the explosion. Boilers used exclusively for domestic purposes, and boilers used in the service of his Majesty or on board certificated steamships, were exempted from the Act, and so were some boiler explosions in mines, but an amending 'Boiler Explosions Act, 1890,' repeals these exemptions, except those for Crown and domestic boilers. A pipe may be a 'boiler' within this Act, R. v. Commissioners, (1891) 1 QB 703; but a boiler used for heating business premises in within the exception, Smith v. Muller, (1894) 1 QB 192....

Family

Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2(h)]. A group consisting of parents and their children; a group of person connected by blood by affinity, or by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 620.In relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (v)]In relation to an operator, means his wife and dependant children and includes his dependent parents. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (g)]Means:(i) In the case of a male-subscriber the wife or wives, parents, children, minor brothers, unmarried sisters, deceased son's widow and children and where no parent of the subscriber is alive, a paternal grandparent: Provided that if a subscriber proves that his wife has be...

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