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Antoni Vs. Greenhow

Court : US Supreme Court

..... it may be observed here that when the taxpayer elects to stand upon the terms of his contract and refuses to pay his taxes in coin, legal tender notes, or bank bills, the act, curiously enough, does not direct the officer to return the coupons so tendered, but requires him to deliver them to the judge of the county court of the county or the hustings court of the city in which such taxes, debts, or demands are payable. ..... according to the established doctrine of this country, the most which can be attributed to a recital of facts in the preamble of an act is that it was represented to the legislature that they existed. ..... " the weight usually accorded to a recital of matters of fact in the preamble of an act, that the facts were so represented to the legislature, cannot be allowed here, for the journals of the legislature of virginia show that it had information when the act was passed that the very opposite of the recitals was true -- that there were no forged or counterfeit bonds or coupons in existence as therein stated. ..... " although the language cited was used with reference to the preamble of a private statute, sedgwick, in his treatise on the interpretation and construction of statutory and constitutional law, after quoting it, says: "this reasoning applies with as much force to public as to private statutes, and the supreme court of new ..... no weight is to be given to the recitals in the preamble of the act of january 14, 1882, as to outstanding forged bonds and coupons. .....

Mcgahey Vs. Virginia

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 681 in the state shall be paid in coin, legal tender notes, or national bank bills, and if coupons shall be tendered in payment thereof, they shall be received by the officer for identification by the proceedings prescribed in the act of 1882, but no license shall issue to the applicant, nor shall he have the right to conduct business or pursue his profession until said coupons have been verified in the manner prescribed by said act, and by another act, passed february 27, 1886, it was declared that after ..... from bonds of the commonwealth issued under the act of 1871 in payment of any such taxes, debts, and demands, the person to whom such papers were tendered should receive the same, giving the party tendering a receipt stating that he had received the same for the purpose of identification and verification, but that he should at the same time require such taxpayer to pay his taxes in coin, legal tender notes, or national bank bills, and give him ..... the suggestion upon which this law was based, as recited in the preamble thereof, was that many spurious, stolen, and forged bonds were in circulation, which made it imprudent to receive coupons in payment of taxes without an investigation first had with regard to their genuineness and validity. .....

Holyoke Water Power Co. Vs. American Writing Paper Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... reserve notes and circulating notes of federal reserve banks and national banking associations) heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold ..... learn from the preamble that "provisions of obligations which purport to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency of the united states, or in an amount in money of the united states measured thereby, obstruct the power of the congress to regulate the value of the money of the united states, and are inconsistent with the declared policy of the congress to maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar, coined or issued by ..... of paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of section 43 of the act entitled 'an act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes,' approved may 12, 1933, is amended to read as follows:" " all coins and currencies of the united states (including federal .....

The Collector of Customs, Madras Vs. Nathella Sampathu Chetty and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1962SC316; 1983LC2198D(SC); [1961]3SCR786

..... gold is defined in section 2(f) of this act thus : ''gold' includes gold in the form of coin, whether legal tender or not, or in the form of bullion or ingot, whether refined or not and jewellery or articles made wholly or mainly of gold ..... of the respondent in support of their petition : (1) that section 178a was not attracted to the determination of a question raised in relation to the confiscation of an article imported in contravention of a notification under section 8(1) of the foreign exchange regulation act, (2) that section 178a required as a pre-condition of its applicability, that the goods which were the subject of adjudication must have been seized 'in the reasonable belief that they are smuggled goods' and that ..... is sufficient to state that the case dealt mainly with an objection based on a violation of article 14 of the constitution which the following extract from the headnote would indicate : 'section 178a of the sea customs act which places the burden of proving that any of the goods mentioned in the section and reasonably believed to be smuggled are not really so on the person from whose possession they are seized, is not discriminative in ..... the preamble to the act recites : 'it is expedient in the economic and financial interests of india to provide for ..... in order that the freedoms guaranteed to the individual subserve the larger needs - moral, social, economic and political - of the community and thus ensure orderly progress towards the goal indicated by the .....

State Vs. Stoll

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of the said corporation originally made payable, or which shall have become payable on demand, in gold or silver coin, shall be receivable in all payments for taxes or other moneys due the state") -- that the bills of the bank, although issued after december 20, 1860, were a legal tender for the payment of taxes due the state in 1870, notwithstanding the fact that the bank at the time ..... the bank the receivability of its notes in payment of taxes or other moneys due to the state, was guaranteed, whether they were or were not in fact redeemed in coin when presented for payment, yet that the act of 1843 prohibited the receipt in payment of taxes of the notes of any bank which did not in fact redeem its notes in specie when presented for payment, and that ..... named (the bank of the state) and of which we are principally to speak was rechartered by an enactment, "that an act entitled an act to establish a bank in behalf of, and for the benefit of the state, passed on the 19th december in the year of our lord 1812, and all other acts now of force relating to the conduct and operations of the said bank, be, and they are hereby, reenacted and continued of ..... it was asserted by stoll, the tax collector, that the sixteenth section of the charter of the bank had been repealed or so far modified by the act passed in 1843 -- enacting [ footnote 3 ] that "all taxes for the use and service of the state shall be paid in specie, paper medium, or the notes of specie-paying ..... the preamble to the act of .....

Sarat Chandra Biswal and anr. Vs. Surendra Mohanty, Editor kalinga and ...

Court : Orissa

Reported in : AIR1969Ori117; 1969CriLJ763

..... moral for a person who is not a member of the bar, or for a member of the bar in his non-professional capacity, may still be improper for an advocate.the preamble further says that without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing obligation, an advocate shall fearlessly uphold the interests of his client, and his conduct conform to the rules both in letter and spirit ..... that where a particular action or speech of a judge is the basis for contempt alleged either by way of criticism or otherwise, then if the facts stated are true, an allegation that such words or acts create a lack of confidence or faith in the administration of justice will remain within the limits of the exercise of the normal right of freedom of speech or expression and that it is only when ..... mahtab as alleged--there would have been no scope for such misunderstandings and comments on that august assembly of legal luminaries and others present at the function.as regards the editorial in the 'kalinga' with reference to the newly constructed fountain in the high court ..... . the rules made under the advocates act, 1961 thus do not alter the position that the advocate, as the preamble indicates, is primarily an officer of the court and has responsibilities to the ..... has power to pardon on sincere and contrite apology tendered unconditionally, but in such a case, ..... 72) (fb) : in the matter of william taylor 44 ind cas 930 = (air 1918 cal 713) and the famous allahabad case where sir iqbal ahmad c. j. ..... (air 1918 cal 988 .....

Child Welfare Committee Vs. Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 152(2008)DLT586

..... who is missing and run away child and whose parents cannot be found after reasonable inquiry,(vi) who is being or is likely to be grossly abused, tortured or exploited for the purpose of sexual abuse or illegal acts,(vii) who is found vulnerable and is likely to be inducted into drug abuse or trafficking,(viii) who is being or is likely to be abused for unconscionable gains,(ix) who is victim of any armed conflict, civil commotion ..... the cwc as well as the jjb, this court would also like to remind the learned mms exercising powers under the jj act to be far more vigilant and cautious before making orders placing young children in the custody of unrelated adults without examining the ramifications ..... , both `palna and `haq are indeed commendable and deserve unreserved appreciation, it is essential that both the district legal services committees as well as the delhi state legal services authority, on a priority basis, constitute a special panel of advocates with the requisite degree of sensitivity to such cases to handle on a daily basis in ..... despite each child being mandatorily entitled to free legal aid under section 12 of the legal services authorities act, 1987 and there being a specific provision in the form of rule 14 of the jj rules very often the cwc and jjb are ..... the preamble to the jj at makes express reference to these provisions as well as to the united nations standard minimum rules for the administration of juvenile justice, 1985 (the beijing rules), the ..... to their tender age. .....

Shailendra Nath Vs. State Bank of India and ors.

Court : Patna

..... 45 of 2003 (which followed as a sequel to the ordinance) reads as follows:exercise superintendence over the vigilance administration of the various ministries of the central government or corporations established by or under any central act, government companies, societies and local authorities owned or controlled by that government.in exercise of powers so conferred on the cvc, it issued its circular dated 18.11.1998 (annexure-r/e), wherein it has noted that improvement of vigilance administration ..... ...the extent of permissible judicial review was indicated by saying that 'actions are amenable to judicial review only to the extent that the state must act validly for a discernible reason, not whimsically for any ulterior purpose.3.1) the supreme court has held as follows in the recent judgment reported in : air2005sc2299 master marine service ..... therefore, be very reluctant to interfere with such acts which are meant to tackle corruption, to suppress the mischief so that the people at large are sure of transparency and their tenders are considered fairly and without any surreptitious contrivances.7. ..... and social justice as envisaged in the preamble of the constitution is sought to be ..... in 1947, vol.2, all england reports page 681, has become classical in legal literature. ..... making process, the court must exercise its discretionary powers under article 226 with great caution and should exercise it only in furtherance of public interest and not merely on the making out of a legal point. .....

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya and ors. Vs. State of M.P. ...

Court : Madhya Pradesh

Reported in : AIR2002MP196; 2002(2)MPHT353

..... , who has authored the judgment for the court expressed thus :--'it is, a cardinal principle of construction of statute that the true or legal meaning of an enactment is derived by considering the meaning of the words used in the enactment in the light of any discernible purpose or object which comprehends the mischief and its remedy to which the ..... preamble of an act, no doubt can also be read along with other provisions of the act to find out the meaning of the words in enacting provision to decide whether they are clear or ambiguous but the preamble in itself not being an enacting provision is not of the same weight as an aid to construction of a section of the act as are other relevant enacting words to be found elsewhere in the act ..... it is putforth that by virtue of the new amendment for all legal and practical purposes the power and function of conduct of courses and establishment, running of centres has been arrogated by the state government making inroad into the freedom and autonomy of the university as an ..... according to the writ petitioners as an evidence of its legal and proper functioning, conforming to the standard of leaching and excellence in the field of education, the university grants commission, new delhi, ..... before we proceed to delineate the legal contours, it is appropriate to exposit the facts as have ..... petitioners have submitted that the aforesaid provision is absolutely arbitrary, irrational and unreasonable and, in fact, legally cannot be conceived of. .....

Bimla Devi Vs. Union of India and Another

Court : Delhi

Reported in : [1985]58CompCas361(Delhi); 1983(4)DRJ236

..... shall, in exchange for currency notes or banknotes of two rupees or upwards, supply currency notes or banknotes of lower value or other coins which are legal tender under the indian coinage act, 1906, in such quantities as may, in the opinion of the bank, be required for circulation; and the central government shall supply such coins to the bank on demand. ..... issue rupee coin on demand in exchange for banknotes and currency notes of the government of india, and shall issue currency notes or banknotes on demand in exchange for coin which is legal tender under the indian coinage act, 1906. ..... to the respondents, the effect of the aforesaid provision was that the high denomination notes ceased to be legal tender with effect from january 16, 1978, but the high denomination notes could be exchanged, within the period stipulated ..... of the 16th day of january, 1978, all high denomination banknotes shall, notwithstanding anything contained in section 26 of the reserve bank of india act, 1934, cease to be a legal tender in payment or on account at any place.' 4. ..... the object is clearly specified in the preamble of the act which reads as follows : 'whereas the availability of high denomination banknotes facilitates the illicit transfer of money for financing transactions which are harmful to the national economy or which are for illegal purposes and ..... the preamble of the act shows that it was with a view to bring such transactions to an end that the high denomination notes, which facilitated such .....