Appropriation/appropriate - Indian Laws - General

Word Appropriate According to Black s law Law Dictionary , word appropriation has been defined as under:- Appropriation: -The exercise of control over property; a taking of possession. Cf. Expropriation (1); Misappropriation, A legislative body s act of setting aside a sum of money for a public purpose. If the sum is earmarked for a precise or limited purpose, it is sometimes called a specific appropriation. [Cases: States 129.] 3. The sum of money so voted. 4. Torts. An invasion of privacy whereby one person takes the name or likeness of another for commercial gain. [Cases: Torts 385, 386.] 5. The transfer of a benefice, together with all its interests, to a spiritual corporation. See spiritual corporation under Corporation. Cf. Impropriation. 6. The benefice so transferred.-- appropriate, vb.--appropriable, adj.--appropriator, n. In the Major Law Lexicon , by P. Ramanatha Aiyar , fourth edition, dictionary meaning of word appropriate in terms of judgment of Hon ble Supreme Court, another Courts has been defined as under: Appropriate . To make a thing one s own; to set apart for, or assign for a particular use to the exclusion of all other uses; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; to make peculiar, as to appropriate words to ideas; to take from another to one s self, with or without violence; necessary and proper (as) appropriate words and expressions. Appropriate is said to be to allot , assign, set apart, or apply anything to the use of a particular person or thing, or for a particular purpose, (3 Cyc 565). The assembly appropriated more money than was needed , to appropriate a spot of ground for a garden. To assign for a special purpose; to prescribe a particular use for particular moneys, or for the payment of a particular demand [S. 58(d), T.P. Act]; specially suitable [Ss. 54 and 55, IPC 45 of 1860]. The word appropriate means- right for the occasion, suitable, proper, fitting... World Book Dictionary as cited in C.C.E. v. Usha Martin Industries- 1997 (8) TMI 77 - SUPREME COURT The word appropriate occurring in the Notification means- the correct or the specified rate of excise duty. Dhiren Chemical Industries - 2001 (12) TMI 3 - SUPREME COURT , [Central Excise and Salt Act, S. 5-A, Notification issued under Central Excise Rules, 1944, R.8(1)] The word appropriate is defined in Websters New Dictionary and Thesaurus (Concise Edn.) as- applicable, apposite, appurtenant, apropos apt . . In the World Book Dictionary it is defined as- right for the occasion, suitable, proper, fitting . DHIREN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES- 2001 (12) TMI 3 - SUPREME COURT