Legal glossary
“enemy firm”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Enemy Property Act, 1968 · s. 2
"enemy firm" means a person or country who or which was an enemy,[3] [an enemy subject including his legal heir and successor whether or not a citizen of India or the citizen of a country which is not an enemy or the enemy, enemy subject or his legal heir and successor who has changed his nationality] or[4] [an enemy firm, including its succeeding firm whether or not partners or members of such succeeding firm are citizen of India or the citizen of a country which is not an enemy or such firm which has changed its nationality], as the case may be, under the Defence of India Act, 1962 (51 of 1962), and the Defence of India Rules, 1962 5[or the Defence of India Act, 1971 (42 of 1971) and the Defence of India Rules, 1971], but 6 [ does not include a citizen of India other than those citizens of India, being the legal heir and successor of the "enemy" or "enemy subject" or "enemy firm"]. 7[…
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