From time to time - Indian Laws - General

Meaning of words from time to time In Words and Phrases , Volume 17 A, 1974, from time to time has been enumerated in various contexts- The phrase from time to time means as occasion may arise, at intervals, now and then occasionally. Florey v. Meeker, 240 P. 2d 1177,1190,194 Or. 257. xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx In constitutional amendment, authorizing Legislature to alter salaries of named county officers from time to time , the quoted phrase does not mean from term to term . Almon v. Morgan County, 16 So.2d 511,514,245 Ala. 241. xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx The phrase from time to time , as used in the Constitution, authorizing the Legislature to increase the number of judges of the Supreme Court from time to time, means occasionally; that is, as occasion requires, and therefore the words cannot be held to mean that the Legislature may not decrease the number of judges after an increase thereof. State v. McBride, 70 P.25,27,29 Wash. 335. xxx xxx xxx xxx The Century Dictionary defines the phrase from time to time to mean occasionally ; and the Universal Dictionary defines from time to time to mean, at intervals; now and then. The phrase is used in such meaning in Acts1898, c. 123, para 95, which directs the police commissioners of Baltimore, at the request of the park commissioners, to detail from time to time members of regular police force for preservation of order in the parks. Upshur v. City of Baltimore, 51 A. 953, 955, 94 Md. 743. xxx xxx xxx xxx The county board of supervisors had no authority to alter an election precinct in September, under statute providing that board may, from time to time, change the boundaries of precincts and providing that changes might be made at regular or special meeting in July, since the two provisions were in pari materia and should be construed together in the light of all the provisions of the statute, the words from time to time meaning at times to recur, and not at any time. Laws 1885, p. 193 para 29, Laws 1871-72, p. 380, para 30, S.H.A. ch. 46, para 29, 30. County Board of Union County v. Short, 77 Ill App. 448. In The Law Lexicon, The Encyclopedic Law Dictionary: (2nd edition, 1997, page 764), the words have been conferred the following meaning:- From time to time as occasion may arise . The words from time to time mean that an adjournment may be made as and when the occasion requires and they will not mean adjournment from one fixed day to another fixed day. The words from time to time are words which are constantly introduced where it is intended to protect a person who is empowered to act from the risk of having completely discharged his duty when he has once acted, and therefore, not being able to act again in the same direction. The meaning of the words from time to time is that after once acting the donee of the power may act again; and either independently of, or by adding to, or taking from, or reversing altogether, his previous act. In Blacks Law Dictionary: (5th edition page 601), it has been defined as follows:- From time to time Occasionally, at intervals, now and then. In Stroud s Judicial Dictionary: (5th edition volume 2 page 1053), it has been stated as follows:- From time to time as occasion may arise (as per William, J., Bryan v. Arthur, 11 A. E 117). [STATE OF RAJASTHAN AND OTHERS VERSUS M/S. BASANT AGROTECH (INDIA) LTD. AND OTHERS- 2014 (4) TMI 64 - SUPREME COURT]