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Definition :

Dividend, a share, the part allotted in division; the interest paid on the public funds; the share of profits of a company payable to each shareholder (see Articles 89 to 96 of Table A to Companies Act, 1929, and ss. 120-123 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845); a distributive share of a bankrupt's estate or on the winding-up of the company, of its assets.

As to the liability upon a company in respect of a dividend when the warrant for it, having been duly posted, is lost in the post, see Thairlwal v. G.N. Ry., (1910) 2 KB 509l.

Dividend means the share of the subscriber in the amount of discount available under the chit agreement for rateable distribution among the subscribers at each instalment of chit. [Chit Funds Act, (40 of 1982), s. 2(h)]

Dividend, is a share of profits, whether at a fixed rate or otherwise, allocated to the holders of shares in a company, Henry v. Great Northern Rly. Co., (1857) 1 De G&J 606.

'Dividend' in its ordinary connotations means the sum paid to or received by a shareholder proportionate to his share-holding in a company out of the total sum distributed, C.I.T. v. Nalim Behari Singha, AIR 1970 SC 388 (389): (1969) 2 SCC 310.