1980 (9) TMI 246

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....a, showed that the ratio of the content of hair and cotton in hairbelting was 50: 50. The claim was overruled on the ground that the particular item would fall under item 81 of the First Schedule to the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959, as "parts and accessories of machinery" and as such taxable, and that it will not fall under item 4 of the Third Schedule exempt from tax. Item 4 of the Third Schedule at the relevant time read as follows: "All varieties of textiles (other than durries, carpets, druggets and pure silk cloth) made wholly or partly of cotton, staple fibre, rayon, artificial silk or wool including handkerchiefs, towels, napkins, dusters, cotton velvets and velveteen, tapes, niwars and laces and hosiery cloth in lengths." ....

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....or bed-sheet or it may be used as tapestry or upholstery or as duster for cleaning or as towel for drying the body. A textile may have diverse uses and it is not the use which determines its character as textile." Rejecting the contention that a scientific or technical meaning for the word "textile" shall be given in preference to its popular meaning, the Supreme Court further observed:   "It has only one meaning, namely, a woven fabric and that is the meaning which it bears in ordinary parlance. It is true that our minds are conditioned by old and antiquated notions of what are textiles and, therefore, it may sound a little strange to regard 'dryer felts' as 'textiles'. But it must be remembered that the concept of 'textiles' is....