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Accountable receipt, a written acknowledgment of the receipt of money or goods to be accounted for by the receiver. It differs from an ordinary receipt, or acquittance, in this, that the latter imports merely that money has been paid. See Clark v. Newsam, (1847) 1 Ex. 131. By the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), ss. 2(2) and 18, the forgery of an accountable receipt, or any assignment thereof or endorsement thereon with intent to defraud, is a felony punishable with penal servitude for not exceeding 14 years....
Account or Accompt
Account or Accompt [fr. compte, Fr., computo, Lat.], a registry of debts, credits, and charges, or a detailed statement of a series of receipts (credits) and disbursements (debits) of money-which have taken place between two or more persons. Accounts are either-(1) open, where the balance is not struck, or it is not accepted by all the parties; (2) stated, where it has been expressly or impliedly acknowledged to be correct by all the parties; and (3) settled, where it has been accepted and discharged. Stated and settled accounts may be investigated and reopened by the Court on the ground of fraud or fiduciary relationships. See SURCHARGE and FALSIFY.Companies under the Companies Act, 1929, must keep proper books of account, and present to the company in general meeting not less than 18 months after incorporation and subsequently at least once in every year a profit and loss account and balance sheet, to copies of which shareholders of all companies, except private companies, are entitl...
Book of account
Book of account, It involves either addition or subtraction or both of these operations of arithmetic. A book which contains successive entries of items may be a good memorandum book; but until those entries are totalled or balanced, or both, as the case may be, there is no reckoning and no account. In the making of totals and striking of balances from time to time lies the chief safeguard under which books of account have been distinguished from other private records as capable of containing substantive evidence on which reliance may be placed', CBI v. V.C. Shukla, (1998) 3 SCC 410: AIR 1998 SC 1406: 1998 Cr LJ 1905 (SC).-All companies registered under the (English) Companies Act,1929, are by s. 122 obliged to keep books of account of (a) all receipts and expenses with matters relating thereto; (b) all sales and purchases; and (c) the assets and liabilities of the company: these books are to be open to inspection by the directors-heavy penalties for non-compliance are imposed. The aud...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421.The act of receiving something; a written acknow-ledgment that something has been received, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.A stamp duty first imposed in 1783 was progressively ad valorem, until 1853, when the uniform 1d. rate was imposed; this was increased to 2d. by the Finance Act, 1920.For the purposes of the Stamp Act, 1891, the expression 'receipt' is defined (s. 101) as including--(1) Any note, memorandum, or writing whereby any money amounting to two pounds or upwards, or any bill of exchange or promissory note for money amounting to two pounds or upwards, is acknow-ledged or expressed to have been received or deposited or paid, or whereby any debt or demand, or any part of a debt or demand, of the amount of two pounds or upwards, is acknowledged to have been settled, satisfied, or discharged, or which signifie...
Banker's receipt
Banker's receipt, a banker's receipt is a document issued by the seller bank acknowledging that it has received money for the sale of a particular security. It implies that the subject security is not readily available for delivery and that the same shall be delivered against the return of banker's receipt duly discharged, and in the meantime the securities are held by the seller bank on account of the purchaser, Citi Bank N.A. v. Standard Chartered Bank, (2004) 6 SCC 1 (16)....
constructive receipt
constructive receipt : the receipt of taxable income (as interest on a savings account) that is implied by the income's ready availability to the taxpayer although it has not actually been collected ...
Client account
Client account, is a current or deposit account with an authorised institution, in the name of the estate agent or his employer, containing the word 'client' in its title, Estate Agents Act, 1979, s. 14(2) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 17, p. 15.Includes (i) a guarantor or a person who proposes to give guarantee or security for borrower of a credit institution; or (ii) a person (a) who has obtained or seeks to obtain financial assistance from a credit constitution, by way of loans, advances, hire purchase, leasing facility, letter of credit, guarantee facility, venture capital assistance by way of credit cards or in any other form or manner; (b) who has raised or seeks to raise money by issue of security as defined in clause (h) of s. 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, or by issue of commercial paper depository receipts or any other instrument; (c) whose financial standing has been assessed or is proposed to be assessed by credit institution or any...
Deposit account
Deposit account, an account of sums lodged with a bank and acknowledged to be so lodged by a 'deposit receipt' given by the banker to the depositor, not to be drawn upon by cheques, and usually not to be withdrawn except after a fixed notice, but bearing interest either at some fixed rate, or very often at 1 per cent. less than the Bank of England rate, and therefore at a rate varying from time to time. The depositor is only a creditor of the bank for the amount of deposit and interest (if any). See BANK.As to the power of an incorporated building society to receive money on deposit, see (English) Building Societies Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 42), s. 15; Building Societies Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 47), ss. 14 and 15....
Money of account, money of measurement money of payment
Money Bill, cannot be introduced in the Council of States. [Constitution of India, Art. 109(1)]Money Bill, cannot be referred to Joint Committee, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 74.Money Bill, in India, the Speaker endorses certificate on Money Bill, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 96.Money Bill, is a Bill which contains only provisions dealing with the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration or regulation of taxation etc., Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 806.Money Bill, on a Bill being introduced in the Council at a subsequent stage if an objection is taken that the Bill is a Money Bill, the Chairman shall, if he holds the objects valid, direct the termination of further proceeding of the Bill. If Chairman is doubtful regarding the validity of the objection, he shall refer the matter to the Speaker whose decision on the matter shall be final, Rules of Procedure and Cond...
Railway receipt
Railway receipt, a 'railway receipt' is a document of title to goods, and, for all purposes, represents the goods. When the railway receipt is handed over to the consignee on payment, the property in the goods is transferred, Commissioner of Income Tax v. Bhopal Textiles Ltd., AIR 1961 SC 426: (1961) 2 SCR 9.Means the receipt issued under s. 65. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (33)]...
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