makes special provisions for licensing
of agents engaged in the sales of tickets or in otherwise soliciting customers
for public service vehicles. Rules ... Special provisions regarding licensing of
agents engaged in the sales of tickets or in otherwise
soliciting customers for public service vehicles:-
(1) In this rule
engaged the plaintiffs as
commission agents to contact with Bombay
Commission Agents, who were entering into
contracts with customers for purchasing or
selling groundnut seeds ... custom prevailing in the, Bombay market,
viz. the custom of Badla. The defendants not
only agreed in general to abide by the custom
of Badla
scope
of authority of the agent.
Under the Law of Agency, as applicable in England, the
authority of an agent may be : (i) actual ... accordance with such applicable
business customs as are reasonable. The authority of the
agent may also be implied from the circumstances of the
particular case
this position.
There, the facts were that an agent delivered goods
to the customer contrary to the instructions of the
principal, who thereafter filed ... having obtained satisfaction, the
principal next filed a suit against the agent for
damages on the ground of negligence and breach
of duty
vaults; the collecting and transmitting of money and securities;
(b) acting as agents for any Government or local authority or any other person or persons ... otherwise acting as an attorney on behalf of customers, but excluding the business of a (managing agent or secretary and treasurer) of a company
agent for in that case there was absolutely no scope for
such a stipulation and the seller Company as a principal of
the agent could ... supply the goods or
petrol to designated customers and there was no question of
the agent being reimbursed, because the property supplied
belonged
undervaluation for the purpose of levy of customs duty under
Section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 [hereinafter referred ... canvassers/indenting agents.
In pursuance of the orders dated June 7, 1985 passed by
the Central Board of Excise & Customs, the Collector of
Customs
transact its business at the
Cochin Custom House under the terms of Section 202 of the
Sea Customs Act read with the Rules made thereunder ... shop. It was
functioning as shipping, clearing and forwarding agents.
The appellant served the customers. Therefore, it was a
shop within the
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territorial waters of
India by July, 198 1 the rate of customs duty was 12.5% on
the import of the goods in question and thereafter ... vessel the Master of the
vessel or his Agent informs the Port authorities and the
Customs authorities of the probable date of arrival
processing agent would be a clearing and forwarding agent as was held in
the case of Prabhat Zarda Factor (Pvt.) Ltd. v. CCE, Patna ... service provided to a client by a
clearing and forwarding agent including a
consignment agent (Emphasis supplied) in relation
to clearing and forwarding operations
