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Habitat, 'habitat' includes land, water or vegetation which is the natural home of any wild animal. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(15)...
Animal article
Animal article, 'animal article' means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used, and ivory imported into India and an article made there form. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(2)]...
Animal
Animal, 'Animal' means any living creature other than a human being. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2(a)]Animal includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians fish, other chordates and invertebrates and also includes their young and eggs. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(a)]In common parlance animal is understood as a quadruped creature but fish is also an animal but of a different kind. Prawn is included in the definition of fish as given in the Maritime Zones of India (Regulation of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act and has all the essential attributes of an animal viz. life, sensation and voluntary motion. It is therefore not possible to accept the contention that prawn is not a livestock, I.T.C. v. Person in charge, Agricultural Market Committee, (2004) 2 SCC 794 (799): AIR 2004 SC 1796. [Maritime Zones of India (Regulations of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act, 1981, ss. 2(b), 3 & 12]The word 'animal' denotes any living creature, other ...
Sanctuary
Sanctuary, privilege of, existed in England from a period commencing soon after the conversion of the Saxons to Christianity. Its effect was that a person accused of any crime except treason or sacrilege might by flying to any church or churchyard, or even to certain other places in Westminster, Wells, Norwich, or York, or in London to Whitefriars or the Savoy, within forty days, on confession and taking oath of abjuration of the realm (see ABJURATION), escape to a foreign country, under the disability of not being able to return without the royal licence. If arrested during the forty days, he might put in the plea of Sanctuary. The privilege extended to civil as well as criminal process, but was attended by attainder of blood and forfeiture of goods.Sanctuary and abjuration were abolished in 1625 by 21 Jac.1, c. 21, after having been restricted by 26 Hen. 8, c. 13, 27 Hen. 8, c. 19, and 39 Hen. 8, c. 12.Means an area declared as a sanctuary by notification under the provisions of Chap...
Zoo
Zoo, means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile, where captive animals are kept for exhibi-tion to the public and includes a circus and rescue centres but does not include an establishment of a licensed dealer in captive animals. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(39)]...
Wildlife vegetation
Wildlife vegetation, wildlife, includes any animal, bees, butterflies, crustacea, fish and moths and aquatic or land vegetation, Essar Oil Ltd. v. Halar Utkarsh Samiti, (2004) 2 SCC 392 (406): AIR 2004 SC, 1834. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(37), (15)]...
Weapon
Weapon, All specified articles, including knives, are to be regarded as 'weapon' capable of being used as 'weapons of offence' fall within the class of object which may be prohibited, Emperor v. Abdul Latif, AIR 1947 Bom 438: (1947) 49 Bom LR 340.Includes ammunition, bows and arrows, explosives, firearms, hooks, knives, nets, poison, snares and traps and any instrument or apparatus capable of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(35)...
Vegetables
Vegetables, as understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless, agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of the Industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, AIR 1992 SC 228.The word 'vegetables' in taxing statutes is to be understood as in common parlance, Vegetables in item 6 does not include betel leaves, Ramavatar Budhaiprasad v. Asst. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1961 SC 1325 (1327): (1962) 1 SCR 279. [C.F. and Bezar Sales Tax Act, (21 of 1947), Sch. II, Item 6]The word 'vegetables' should be understood as denoting the class of vegetables which are grown in kitchen garden or in a farm and are used for the tables. There can be no dispute that both chillies and lemons are grown in kitchen gardens or at any rate in farms and they are used for the tables, Mangulu Sahu Ramahari Sahu v. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1974 SC 390: (1972) 4 SCC 423. [Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947, s. 6]The word 'vegetables' is not defined in the Act and it ...
Territorial waters
Territorial waters. This expression is used with regard to that portion of the sea, upto a limited distance, which is immediately adjacent to the shores of any country, and over which the sovereignty and exclusive jurisdiction of that country extends. The generally recognized limit is three miles, which was the range of canon in the seventeenth century (see Grotius). Territorial waters are considered as territory to the extent that fishing in such waters is reserved for the exclusive benefit of the subjects of the adjacent country. See the Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 73), passed in consequence of the decision in R. v. Keyn, (1876) 2 Ex D 63.Territorial waters shall have the same meaning as in s. 3 of the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976). [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2 (30A)]...
Taxidermy
Taxidermy, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the curing, preparation or preservation or mounting of trophies. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (3 of 1972), s. 2(30)]...
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