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Wires, Overhead

Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....


Barbed-wire

Barbed-wire. By the (English) Barbed Wire Act,1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32), s. 2, 'barbed wire' means any wire with spikes or jagged projections; and the expression 'nuisance to a highway,' as applied to it, means barbed wire which may probably be injurious to persons or animals lawfully using such highway. A local authority can require the removal of barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but on lands not adjoining a highway a person is in general under no liability for the use of such wire....


Electrical resistance wires

Electrical resistance wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high resistivity, keeping in view the low resistivity of Tungsten wire it cannot be regarded as electrical resistance wire falling under Item 73(23), Union of India v. Kalpana Industries Ltd., 1995 Supp (6) SCC 712 (714). [Customs Tariff Act, 1934, Sch. I, Item 73(23)]...


overhead

overhead : business expenses (as rent or insurance) not chargeable to a particular part of the work or product ...


Overhead line

Overhead line, means an electric line which is placed above the ground and in the open air but does not include live rails of a traction system. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(48)]...


hot wire

to start a car by using a wire instead of a key as when stealing the car the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key...


Office wire

Copper wire with a strong but light insulation used in wiring houses etc...


Barbed wire

Barbed wire, means wire with spikes or jugged projections, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 491, p. 365....


Wire rods

Wire rods, properzi rods are a species of 'wire rods', Indian Aluminium Cables Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1201 (1205): (1985) 3 SCC 284: (1985)Supp 1 SCR 731. [Central Excise and Sales Act (1 of 1944), Sch. I, item 27(a)(ii)]...


wire fraud

wire fraud see fraud ...


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