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Land-waiter
Land-waiter, denotes an officer of the custom-house, whose duty is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also executethe office of a coast-waiter. They are likewise occasionally styled searchers, and are to attend and join with the patent-searcher in the execution of all dockets for the shipping of goods to be exported to foreign ports; and in cases where drawbacks on bounties are to be paid to the merchant on the exportation of any goods, they, as well as the patent-searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the debentures, Encyc. Londin....
Dialogus de scaccario
Dialogus de scaccario. This has generally passed as the work of Gervase of Tilbury; but Mr. Madox thinks it was written by Richard Fitz-Nigel, Bishop of London, who succeeded his father in the office of treasurer, in the reign of Richard I., and was therefore qualified for such an undertaking. This book treats, in a way of dialogue, of the whole establishment of the Exchequer, as a Court and an office of revenue; giving an exact and satisfactory account of the officers and their duties, with all matters concerning that Court, during its highest grandeur, in the reign of Henry II. This is done in a style somewhat superior to the Law-Latinity of those days, 1 Reeves, 220; and see Mad. Hist. of the Exchequer; Stubb's Select Charters...
Arrangements between debtors and creditors
Arrangements between debtors and creditors. The 125th and 126th sections of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869, which repealed an Act of 1861, allowed liquidation by arrangement and composition with creditors by resolutions passed at similar representative meetings to take the place of proceedings in bankruptcy. The (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, having repealed the Act of 1869 without re-enacting these clauses, arrangements with creditors outside the law of bankruptcy became common, and in order to legalize and regulate these arrangements, the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1887, was passed and amended in 1890 by 53 & 54 Vict. c. 24. The law has now been consolidated by the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 47), which repeals the Act of 1887, and also parts of the Bankruptcy and (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913, and contains practically the whole statute law on the subject. The Act is divided into five parts: (1) defining the deeds of arrangement...
Paymaster
One who pays one who compensates rewards or requites specifically an officer or agent of a government a corporation or an employer whose duty it is to pay salaries wages etc and keep account of the same...
Comptroler
A controller a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts...
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)]...
Accountant-General, or Accomptant-General
Accountant-General, or Accomptant-General, an officer of the Court of Chancery, appointed by Act of Parliament to receive all money lodged in Court, and to place the same in the Bank of England for security. (12 Geo. 1, c. 32; 1 Geo. 4, c. 35; 15 & 16 Vict. C. 87, ss. 18-22 and 39). The office was abolished by the (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. C. 44), and the duties transferred to the Paymaster-General. See (English) Sup. Court of Judicature (Funds) Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. C. 29). The office of Accountant-General was revived by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, Part VI., ss. 133 to 149, repealing and replacing the Act of 1883....
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...
Accountant in bankruptcy
Accountant in bankruptcy, an officer who had the management of the proceeds of bankrupts' estates. The repealed (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 134), s. 12, provided that upon the first vacancy the office should be abolished, and its duties discharged by the Chief Registrar. The funds in the Bank of England standing in his name were transferred (upon certain conditions) to the National Debt Commissioners, by 32 & 33 Vict. C. 91. See BANKRUPTCY....
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
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