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Accounts duties

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Prest

Prest, a duty in money that was to be paid by the sheriff on his account in the Exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands. Abolished by 2 & 3 Edw.

Audit

Companies Act, 1929, ss. 132 to 134 now provide for annual appointment of auditors and sets out their duties. Ss. 122-131 contain express provisions for compulsory annual accounts, whereas in the 1908 Act no express provision was … Audit, an examining of accounts. An audit may be either detailed or administrative, and is usually both. A detailed audit is a comparison

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Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General

Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General; the duties of Paymaster-General transferred to Accountant-General: see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 133 et seq.). Under the

Executor

decease. One who performs or carries out some act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 591. The leading duties and responsibilities of an executor may be thus classed:- (1) He will not be allowed as against creditors … for his own personal trouble or loss of time, unless it be expressed in the will: on which account the law formerly gave to the executor the whole residue undisposed of, unless, by some expression, to be

Pawn or Pledge

debt or engagement. It is indivisible; individua est pignoris causa. As to the pledgee or pawnee's rights and duties: The pawnee acquires, in virtue of the pawn, a special property in the thing, and is entitled to … its increments, if any, after the debt or other duty has been discharged. He must render a due account of all the income, profits, and advantages derived by him from the pledge, in all cases where such

Death duties

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Estate duty

and over 2,000,000,50 per cent. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Revenue,' or amendments, and consult Hanson or Dymond's Death Duties. As to SETTLEMENT ESTATE DUTY, now abolished, see that title. Estate duty means a duty to be assessed

Accountable

Accountable. As to the person accountable for Estate Duty, see O'Grady v. Wilmot, 1916 (2) AC 231 and Law

Turnover

bought or sold or supplied or distributed by a dealer either directly or through another on his own account or on account of others whether for cash or for deferred payment or for other valuable consideration, Joint

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