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Money lender

forfeiture of money-lenders' certificates for certain offences, including offences under this and other Acts. S. 5 restricts money-lenders' advertisements. Sub-s. (3) of this s. which prohibits any person from acting as agent or canvasser for a money-lender

Deposit-taker

Deposit-taker, means the person with whom the deposits which are invited by a deposit advertise-ment are to be made, Banking Act, 1984 (Advertise-ments) Regulation 1988, SI 1988/645 reg 1(3) Halsbury's Laws of England

Betting

betting business. The (English) Ready Money Football Betting Act, 1920, penalises the printing, publishing or circulating of circulars, advertisements or coupons of any ready money football betting business. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming,' Coldridge's Law

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Bait and switch

Bait and switch, means a sales practice whereby a merchant advertises a low-priced product to lure customers into the store only to induce them to buy a higher priced

Common informer

Common informer, a person who prosecutes others for breaches of penal laws, or furnishes evidence on criminal trials for no other reason than to get the penalty or a share of it; for a recent instance...

Gaming or gambling

Geo. 5, c. 58), and see Elderton v. United Kingdom Totalisator Co., (1935) 1 Ch 373 (as to advertisement of football pool on credit); WAGER; BETTING; and LOTTERY; and see Chitty's Statutes, tit.'Game and Gaming.' Consult Coldridge

Venereal disease

Venereal Disease Act, 1917, prohibits the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by a duly qualified medical practitioner. Advertisement o cures, treatment, etc., is prohibited except when made to duly qualified medical practitioners or chemists or by

Indian language

Schedule to the Constitution, and includes any dialect of such language. [Cigarette and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), s. 2(g)]

libel

the reputation of by libel [respondent's complaint alleged that he had been libeled by statements in a full-page advertisement "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)"] 2 : to proceed against in law by

prospectus

be offered or sold to the public. The Securities Act defines prospectus broadly as “any prospectus, notice, circular, advertisement, letter, or communication, written or by radio or television, which offers any security for sale or confirms the

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