Distribution - Indian Laws - General

Word distribution In Black s Law dictionary, the word distribution has been defined thus: The giving out or division among a number, sharing or parcelling out, allotting, dispensing, apportioning. Webster s Third International dictionary at page 660 defines distribution thus: the position, placement, or arrangement (as of a mass or the members of a group); the disposition or arrangement in rational groups or classes: CLASSIFICATION the accurate distribution of several rare zoological specimens; delivery or conveyance (as of newspapers or goods) to the members of a group (the distribution of telephone directories to consumers) in charge of company sales and distribution; a device, mechanism, or system by which something is distributed (as from a main source); the marketing or merchandising of commodities. In Family Word Finder published by Readers Digest the word distribution has been defined at page 237 thus: dissemination, scattering, spreading, circulation, grouping, organisation, apportionment, allotment, allocation, division. In the Sanjeev Coke Manufacturing Co. s case - 1982 (12) TMI 220 - SUPREME COURT , Reddy,J., observed thus: To distribute , even in its simple dictionary meaning, is to allot, to divide into classes or into groups and distribution embraces arrangement, classification, placement, disposition, apportionment, the way in which items, a quantity, or the like, is divided or apportioned; the system of dispersing goods throughout a community. STATE OF TAMIL NADU, ETC, ETC VERSUS L. ABU KAVUR BAI AND ORS. ETC. - 1983 (10) TMI 269 - SUPREME COURT