Zero Hour - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: zero hourZero hour
Zero hour, is usually a noisy interregnum between the question hour and the beginning of the rest of the day's business in a legislature; member raise often without notice, various matters during this period, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, p. 491....
Zero
Zero, is a lowest point or lowest in order, Webster's Third New International Dictionary.It is a mathematical value, intermediate between negative and positive values, Random House Dictionary of English Language.Zero, represents the lowest point of degree of the lowest number of votes which can be possibly be obtained by a candidate, Shrimikar v. Keshri Chand, AIR 1984 Raj 14 (18). [Rajasthan Municipalities (Election of Chairman,Vice-Chairman, President and Vice-President) Rules (1959), R. 10(8)(a)(ii)]Zero, undoubtedly has a mathematical value inter-mediate between positive and negative values. Every member of the board has one vote and if a duly nominated candidate does not receive the vote of even one of the members, then he would be considered to have obtained zero vote, because votes have to be counted in terms of number, Shriniwas v. Keshri Chand, AIR 1984 Raj 14....
zero bracket amount
zero bracket amount : a deduction from gross income that was permitted for federal taxpayers and reflected in tax tables until its replacement by the standard deduction in 1986 ...
zero-coupon bond
zero-coupon bond see bond ...
Zero coupon bond
Zero coupon bond. means a bond:(a) issued by any infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector company on or after the 1st day of June, 2005;(b) in respect of which no payment and benefit is received or receivable before maturity or redemption from infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector com-pany; and(c) which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 2(48)]....
Hourly
Happening or done every hour occurring hour by hour frequent often repeated renewed hour by hour continual...
eight-hour law
eight-hour law : a law fixing the working day for specified types of employment at eight hours and frequently providing for time-and-a-half compensation for hours worked after eight hours ...
billable hour
billable hour : an hour that a lawyer spends engaged in work that can be charged to a client at the hourly rate ...
Kilowatt hour
A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour approximately equal to 134 horse power hour...
man hour
The quantity of work which one person can perform in one hour often an estimate made for the purpose of deciding whether to undertake a project and sometimes used in accounting as it will take a hundred man hours to write the program...
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