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Home Dictionary Name: yieldYield strength
Yield strength, means the stress corresponding to a permanent strain of 0.2 per cent of the original Inage length in a tensile lest. For practical purpose it may be taken as a stress at which elongation first occurs in the lest piece without the increase ofload in a tensile lest. [Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004, R. 2(xlii)]...
yield
yield : to produce as return from an expenditure or investment : furnish as profit or interest [an account that s 6 percent] vi 1 : to give place or precedence (as to one having a superior right or claim) 2 : to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly [ to the senator from Maine] n 1 : agricultural production esp. per acre of crop 2 : the return on a financial investment usually expressed as a percentage of cost [the bond was 8 percent] ...
Surrender
Surrender [fr. sursum redditio], an assurance restor-ing or yielding up an estate, the operative verbs being 'surrender and yield up.' The term is usually applied to the giving up of a lease before the expiration of it: it generally means the giving up of a lesser estate to a greater; a release is the giving up of a greater to a less interest, enlarging the latter.The effect of a surrender is to pass and merge the estate of the surrender or to, and into, that of the surrenderee.By the combined operation of s. 3 of the Statute of Frauds, and the (English) Real Property Act, 1845, s. 3, now replaced by ss. 51 to 55 of the (English) Law of Property Act 1925, every express surrender must be in writing, and every express surrender of a more than three years' term must be by deed. As to surrenders of leases by mortgagors or mortgagees, in possession, see s. 100, (English) L.P. Act, 1925. But there may be an implied surrender or, as it is called in the Statute of Frauds, a surrender 'by act a...
return
return 1 a : to give (an official account or report) to a superior (as by a list or statement) [ the names of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty days "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the grand jury ed six indictments] [ed a verdict of not guilty] 2 : to bring in or produce (as earnings or profit) : yield re·turn·able adj n 1 a : the delivery of a court order (as a writ) to the proper officer or court b : proof of service 2 : return day 3 : an account or formal report (as of an action performed or duty discharged or of facts and statistics) [census s] ;esp : a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information usually used in pl. 4 a : a report of the results of balloting [election s] b : an official declaration of the election of a candidate [each house shall be the judge of the elections, s,...
revenue
revenue often attrib 1 : the total income produced by a given source [a property expected to yield a large annual ] 2 : the gross income returned by an investment 3 : the yield of sources of income (as taxes) that a political unit (as a nation or state) collects and receives into the treasury for public use 4 : a government department concerned with the collection of national revenue ...
submit
submit sub·mit·ted sub·mit·ting vt 1 : to yield or subject to control or authority [to himself to the jurisdiction of the tribal court "Sheppard v. Sheppard, 655 P.2d 895 (1982)"] 2 a : to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision ;specif : to commit to a trier of fact or law for decision after the close of trial or argument [the trial court could properly both counts to the jury "Rorie Sherman"] b : to deliver formally 3 : to put forward as an opinion or contention vi 1 : to yield oneself [parties to a contract may agree in advance to to the jurisdiction of a given court "National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent, 375 U.S. 311 (1964)"] 2 : to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion of another ...
Banana plant
Banana plant, A banana plant is more in the nature of a seasonal crop lasting for one or one and a quarter years. Once the plant yield fruit, it becomes useless and does not yield any further fruit. Further, its stem is not 'woody' but 'fleshy' or 'herbacious'. A banana plant cannot be regarded as a fruit-tree, Mir Fakir Mohammed v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1978 SC 1072: (1978) 3 SCR 9: (1978) 2 SCC 36 (38). [West Bengal Estate Accuasation Act,1954 s. 2 (p)]...
International Law
International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the slow growth of modern times, under the combined influence of Christianity, intercourse, commerce and war.II. Private Law (Conflict of Laws): It is plain that the laws of one country can have no intrinsic force, proprio vigore, except within the territorial limits and jurisdiction of that country. They can bind only its own subjects and others who are within its jurisdictional limits; and the latter only while they remain therein. No other nation, or its subjects, is bound to yield the slightest obedience to those laws. Whatever extra-territorial force they are to have is the result not of any original power to extend them abroad, but of that respect which, from motives of public policy, other nations are disposed to yield to them, giving them effect, as the phrase is, sub mutu' vicissitudinis obtentu, with a wise and liberal regard to common convenience and ...
Tax
Tax [fr. tasg, Wel.; taxe, Fr. and Dut.], an impost; a tribute imposed on the subject; an excise; tallage.A monetary charge imposed by government on persons, entities or properly to yield public revenue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1469.Some general principles of taxation have been said to be:-(1) The subjects of every State ought to contribute to the support of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.(2) The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quality to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.(3) Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be co...
Concession
Concession, the common dictionary meaning of the word 'concession' is 'the act of yielding or conceding as to a demand or argument, something conceded; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, 'a thing yielded', 'a grant', Indian Aluminium Co. Ltd. v. Thane Municipal Corpn., 1992 Supp (1) SCC 480: AIR 1992 SC 53 (57). [Maharashtra Municipalities (Octroi) Rules (1968), R. 4(2)]1. The voluntary yielding to a demand for the sake of a settlement 2. International Law. A contract in which a country transfers some rights to a foreign enterprise, which then engages in an activity (such as mining) contingent on State approval and subject to the terms of the contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Is a thing that is conceded, a gesture made in recognition of demand or prevailing standard, a reduction in price for certain category of person, Arun Kumar v. Union of India, 2006 (12) JT 121 [As per Concise Oxford English Dictionary]...
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