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Tax, interest and penalty

is compensatory in character and not penal, Associated Cement Company Limited v. Commercial Tax Officer, AIR 1981 SC 1887: (1981) 4 SCC 578: (1982) 1 SCR 563.

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff

sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown. The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from

Plant

Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar,...

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Sheriff's Tourn or Rotation

'tourn,' which had been long obsolete, was expressly abolished by s. 18, sub-s. 4, of the Sheriffs Act, 1887.

Scandalum magnatum

1, c. 5, and also under 3 Edw. 1, c. 34; repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1887.

Risk Note

Risk Note, the name sometimes given to the special contract, sanctioned by s. 7 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31), but not binding on the consignor unless signed...

Quarry

Metalliferous Mines Acts by the Quarries Act, 1894. As to the fencing of Quarries, see Quarry (Fencing) Act, 1887; A.G. v. Roe, (1915) 1 Ch 235. The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the

Public policy

Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition. Concept of 'public policy' is considered to be vague, susceptible to narrow or wider meaning depending...

Public meeting

purpose of passing and repassing only (see the ruling of Charles, J., in the Trafalgar Square case in 1887, and Ex parte Lewis, (1888) 21 QBD 191), there is no 'right of public meeting' known to English

Heriot

heriots amongst other things; while s. 2 of the same Act, re-enacting s. 7 of the Copyhold Act, 1887, enacts that a lord or tenant of any land liable to any heriot may require and compel the

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