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Allotment notes, as to the payment of seamen's wages during absence by means of allotment notes, see Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 140-144; Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, s. 62; and Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotment) Act, 1911, s. 1....
Allotments
Allotments. Many (English) Acts (see chit. Stat., tit. 'Allotments') have been passed authorizing parish officers to let out to poor persons small quantities of parish land or land originally allotted under inclosure Acts for the benefit of the poor. The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (Part II.), empowers parish, urban, borough or county councils to provide plots of land for persons belonging to the labouring population of the locality to cultivate as farms or gardens. Land for allotments may be acquired compulsorily by the above bodies (ss. 12 and 27, Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919) (as amended by the 1925 Act, s. 1). This Act as amended by the Allotments Act, 1922, necessitates a six months' or longer notice to quit (but see s. 30(2) of the Act, 1908, and s. 1 of the Act of 1922), and provides, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, for compensation to an outgoing tenant by the landlord for growing crops, manure, improvement, etc. (s. 47 of the Act of 1908, a...
Seamen
Seamen, persons engaged in navigating ships, barges, etc., upon the high seas. Those employed for this purpose upon rivers, lakes, or canals are denominated watermen.The (English) Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 and 1906 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, and 6 Edw. 7, c. 48), contain numerous and elaborate provisions. In Part II. of the Act of 1894 there are regulations as to engagement and discharge of seamen, and payment of their wages. The Act also (s. 168) gives power to a Court to rescind a contract between owner or master, and seaman or apprentice, where a proceeding is instituted in the Court in relation to a dispute between them, protects (ss. 212-219) seamen from imposition, and (ss. 198-210) protects them in the matter of provisions, health, and accommodation. As to seamen's allotment notes, see (English) Merchant Shipping (Seamen's Allotment) Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 8). Part III. of the Act of 1906 deals with seamen's food, and Part IV. contains provisions for the relief and repatriati...
Allotment
Allotment, partition, the distribution of land under an inclosure Act, or shares in a public undertaking. See COMPANY. By (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 39-42, reproducing and amending s. 85 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, no allotment of the share capital of a company can be made unless the conditions therein contained have been complied with.In Company law 'allotment' means the appropria-tion out of the previously unappropriated capital of a company, of a certain number of shares to a person. Till such allotment the shares do not exist as such. It is on allotment in this sense that the shares come into existence, Sri Gopal jalan and Co. v. Calcutta Stock Exchange Assn. Ltd, AIR 1964 SC 250 (252): (1964) 3 SCR 698. [Companies Act, 1956, s. 75(1)]Allotment is an appropriation to some person or corporation of a certain number of shares, but not necessarily of any specific share, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 7(1), 4th Edn., Para 422, p. 276.Means the grant by a person...
Allotment rate
Allotment rate, the 'allotment rate' which must mean and did mean 'the allotment price' meaning thereby the price of the allotment or price of the allotted quantity which shall be exclusive of all taxes, cesses and duties leviable thereon under the law, Hill Tiller & Co v. Coffee Board, Banglore, AIR 1979 SC 1785 (1790): (1979) 4 SCC 543, (Rules Governing Allotment of Imported Chicory to Actual Vess, 1960)....
Year of allotment
Year of allotment, the year of allotment of an Officer appointed to the service after the commencement of these rules shall be: (b) Where the officer is appointed to the service by promotion in accordance with sub-rule (1) of Rule 8 of the Recruitment Rules, the year of allotment of the junior most among the officers recruited to the service in accordance with Rule 7 of these rules, who officiated continuously in a Senior Post from a date earlier than the date of commencement of such officiation by the former. Provided that the year of allotment of an officer appointed to the service in accordance with sub-rule (1), Rule 8 of the recruitment rules who started officiating continuously in a senior post from a date earlier than the date on which any of the Officers recruited to the service in accordance with Rule 7 of these rules, so started officiating, shall be determined ad hoc by the Central Government in consultation with the State Government concerned. Provided further that an offic...
Allotment of flates
Allotment of flates, the word 'allotment' in the order means making over of the flats. In other words, it means delivery of possession and registration of the sale deeds, Major Gen. B.M. Bhattacharjee v. Russel Estate, AIR 1993 SC 1632 (1634): (1993) 2 SCC 533....
Allotment societies
Allotment societies, are societies on a co-operative basis having for their object, or one of their objects, the provision or profitable working of allotments, whether in relation to the purchase of requisites, the sale of produce, credit banking, insurance or otherwise. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., p. 46, para 82...
note
note 1 a : a written promise to pay a debt ;specif : promissory note in this entry bank note : a promissory note issued by a bank payable to bearer on demand but without interest and circulating as money cog·no·vit note [kÄ g-nō-vit-, kōg-] : a note in which the maker acknowledges the debt and authorizes the entry of judgment against him or her without notice or a hearing : a note containing a confession of judgment collateral note : a note secured esp. by a collateral mortgage and pledged to secure an obligation of which a hand note usually serves as evidence demand note : a note payable on demand compare time note in this entry floating rate note : a negotiable note that yields an indexed and periodically adjusted variable rate of interest called also floater hand note : a note for an obligation secured by a collateral note non-recourse note : a note whose satisfaction upon default may be obtained only out of the collateral securing it promisso...
Noting
Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper attached thereto, or partly upon each.Such notes must be made within a reasonable time after dishonour, and must specify the date of dishonour, the reason, if any, assigned for such dishonour, or if the instrument has not been expressly dishonoured, the reason why the holder treats it as dishonoured, and the notary's charges. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 99]--The making of a memorandum or note on a bill of exchange by a notary which states that he has presented the bill for payment or acceptance, and that it has been dishonoured. It is usual, in cases of non-payment of bills of exchange, for London bankers, after six o'clock on the day upon which the bills fall due, to cause inland bills to be noted. The duty of a notary in protesting a bill consists in thre...
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