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Accountable receipt

Accountable receipt, a written acknowledgment of the receipt of money or goods to be accounted for by the receiver. It differs from an

Attestation and attesting witness

in the presence of the executing after seeing the execution of the document or after receiving a personal acknowledgment from the executant as regards the execution of the document, Beni Chand v. Kamla Kumar, AIR 1977 SC

obligation

obligation 1 : a promise, acknowledgment, or agreement (as a contract) that binds one to a specific performance (as payment) ;also : the binding

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Cognizance, or conusance

Cognizance, or conusance, the hearing of a thing judicially; also an acknowledgment of a fine; and in replevin it was, before the Judicature Acts the name for the pleading of

Goods

would not come within the purview of the definition of goods as it is simply an instrument of acknowledgment of debt by the company whereby it undertakes to pay the amount covered by it and till then

Confession by culprit

Confession by culprit, the acknowledgment by a criminal of the offence charged against him when charged by any person or called upon to

Rent

issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit,

Tail

(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167), her husband's concurrence only is necessary, but her deed required acknowledgment under the F. and R. Act, 1833, s. 40, if executed before 1926. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s.

Inevitable accident

in the L.P. Act, 1925, s. 64(9), relating to the effect of an undertaking for safe custody and acknowledgment of the right to production of documents. As to ordering particulars of a defence of 'inevitable accident,' see

Quietus

of a quietus, see 2 Vict. c. 11, s. 9; Obs. in England. As to entry of an acknowledgment by satisfaction or discharge of a writ or order registered at the Land Registry. [see Land Charges Act,

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