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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] ...
Cadre
Cadre, In service jurisprudence, the term 'cadre' has a definite legal connotation. In the legal sense, the word 'cadre' is not synonymous with 'service'. Fundamental Rule 9(4) defines the word 'cadre' to mean the strength of a service or part of a service sanctioned as a separate unit, Chakradhar Paswan v. State of Bihar, (1988) 2 SCC 214: AIR 1988 SC 959: (1988) 3 SCR 180 [F.R. 9(4)].Includes both permanent and temporary posts, G.R. Luthra v. Lt. Governor, Delhi, (1975) 1 SCR 974: AIR 1974 SC 1908: (1975) 3 SCC 258. [Delhi Higher Judicial Service Rules, 1970, R. 6 (3)]In the service jurisprudence the expression 'cadre' means the unit of strength of a service or a part of it as determined by the employer, State of Maharashtra v. Purshottam, (1996) 9 SCC 266 (269).Cadre, would ordinarily mean the strength of a service or a part of the service so determined by the Government constituting the post therein, Shiv Dutt Judiya v. Ganga Divi, (2002) 3 SCC 182....
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...
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]...
Enfeeble
To make feeble to deprive of strength to reduce the strength or force of to weaken to debilitate...
VerbarJujutsu
The Japanese art of self defense without weapons now widely used as a system of physical training It depends for its efficiency largely upon the principle of making clever use of an opponents strength weight and movements to disable or injure him and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance dislocate or break a joint etc It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy...
Samson
An Israelite of Bible record see Judges xiii distinguished for his great strength hence a man of extraordinary physical strength...
Leader of the opposition
Leader of the opposition, relation to either House of Parliament, means that member of the Council of States or the House of the People, as the case may be, who is, for the time being, the Leader in that House of the party in opposition to the Government having the greatest numerical strength and recognised as such by the Chairman of the Council of States or the Speaker of the House of the People, as the case may be.Explanation.--Where there are two or more parties in opposition to the Government, in the Council of States or in the House of the People having the same numerical strength, the Chairman of the Council of States or the Speaker of the House of the People, as the case may be, shall, having regard to the status of the parties, recognise any one of the Leaders of such parties as the Leader of the Opposition for the purposes of this s. and such recognition shall be final and conclusive. Salary and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977 (33 of 1977), s. 2....
Proof
Proof, does not mean proof to rigid mathematical demonstration, because that is impossible; it must mean such evidence as would induce a reasonable man to come to a particular conclusion, Hawkins v. Powells Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd., (1911) 1 KB 988: 1911 WN 53.Proof, evidence, testimony, convincing token means of conviction. Also standard strength of spirituous liquids.See BURDEN OR PROOF; EVIDENCE; BANK-RUPTCY; WINDING-UP.The word 'proof' need be understood in the sense in which it is defined in the Evidence Act because proof depends upon the admissibility of evidence. A fact is said to be proved when, after considering the matters before it, the court either believes it to exist, or considers its existence so probable that a prudent man ought, under the circumstances of the particular case, to act upon the supposition that it exists. This is the definition given for the word 'proved' in the Evidence Act. What is required is production of such materials on which the court can reaso...
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