1925 (10) TMI 5

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

→ Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

..... license under Section 249, Act V of 1920. 2. It is admitted that petitioner has a weaving factory containing nine looms of the sort which the weaver works with his hands and feet, known as a maggom or European loom. The Bench has found that he was liable to take out a license for using for an "industrial purpose" machinery as provided in Sub-clause (q) of Schedule V, Act V, 1920. The q .....

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

→ Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

..... called a machine must be licensed. For instance, no one has ever supposed that singer's sewing machines required license, and the literary sense of the word is too general to afford any guidance. In old English, machine was synonymous with universe, and when Hamlet concludes his letter to Ophelia, "Thine ever more most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him", he treats the word as .....

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

→ Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

..... s. The Statute itself affords no assistance by way of definition; but I observe that Section 250 refers to mechanical power and I think that this points to the right interpretation. As observed by Professor Murray in the Oxford Dictionary in recent use, the word tends to be applied especially to an apparatus so devised that the result of its operation is not dependent on the strength or manipulati .....

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

→ Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X