A Dictionary
Any property
Any property, the expression prima facie includes unless something to the contrary can be spelt out from the other provisions of the Act, all forms or types of interest answering to the description of 'property' in law. Off course, the property must be heritable property in respect to which alone the question of succession may legitimately arise, Angurbala Mullick v. Debabrata Mullick, AIR 1951 SC 293 (297): 1951 SCR 1125. [Hindu Woman's Right to Property Act, 1937, s. 3(1) (as amended by Act 11 of 1983)]...
Any public servant
Any public servant, there is no reason why the phrase 'any public servant' used in the same context should be taken to mean any specified public servant, Mahesh Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1955 SC 70 (72): (1955) 1 SCR 965. (Penal Code, 1861, s. 161)...
Any purpose
Any purpose, the words 'any purpose' is of wide connotation and there is no reason to restrict its meaning, Janak Lal v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1989 SC 2225 (2226): (1989) 4 SCC 121. [Mineral Concession, Rules (1960) R. 59]...
Any sums charged by the dealer
Any sums charged by the dealer, the phrase 'any sums charged by the dealer' has to be understood in its ordinary popular sense. So construing the phrase, it means 'what is demanded and collected or received by the dealer', McDowell & Co. v. CTO, (1977) 1 SCC 441: AIR 1977 SC 1459. [A.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(1)(a)]...
Any surety
Any surety, on its plain grammatical meaning there can be no doubt that the term 'any surety' will include not only a surety who has given some security but also one who has given only a personal guarantee, Maharashtra State Financial Corp. v. Jaycee Drugs and Pharmaceuticals (P) Ltd, (1991) 2 SCC 637 (653). [State Financial Corporation Act, 1951, s. 31(1)(aa)]...
appropriation
appropriation In governmental accounting, an expenditure authorized for a specified amount, purpose and time. Source: FindLaw ...
Appropriation
Appropriation, the annexing of some ecclesiastical benefice to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, etc., just as impropriation is the annexing a benefice to the use of a lay person or corporation. Appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, if a patron or appropriator present a clerk who is properly instituted and inducted, for he would then become complete parson; also, if a corporation possessing the benefice is dissolved, the parsonage becomes disappropriate at Common Law, Phill. Eccl. Law....
Appropriation Accounts
Appropriation Accounts, 'appropriation accounts' means accounts which relate the expenditure brought to account during a financial year, to the several items specified in the law made in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution or of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, (20 of 1963) for the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India or of State, or of a Union Territory having a Legislative Assembly, as the case may be. [Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Power and Conditions of Service Act, (56 of 1971), s. 2(b)]...
Appropriation Act
Appropriation Act, An Act so named is passed every year for the purpose of applying sums out of the Consolidated Fund (see that title) to the service of the year, and for appropriating the supplies granted by Parliament....
Appropriation of goods
Appropriation of goods, Upon a contract for sale of unascertained or future goods is an act identifying goods specifically with the contract. The appropriation may be made by either party with the express or implied consent of the other absolutely or conditionally or revocably, delivery to the buyer or a bailee without any reservation of the right of disposal transfers the property. See (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71) s. 21....