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Home Dictionary Name: assureIndustrial assurance
Industrial assurance. See the (English) Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 (repealing the Collecting Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies Act, 1896), which consolidates and amends the law relating to industrial assurance. The Act gives increased protection to the poorer classes of assured persons in respect of life insurance business the premiums upon which are received by collectors at intervals of less than two months. 'Industrial assurance funds' (life funds) cannot be made security for a loan other than a temporary bank overdraft. The Act contains important provisions as to forfeiture and surrender of policies, accounts and inspection, and the printing of portions of the Act on policies so as to draw the attention of policy-holders to rights conferred by the Act. See the (English) Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 28), which permits the issue of endowment policies; and see FRIENDLY SOCIETIES....
Common assurances
Common assurances, the legal evidences of the tran-slation of property, whereby every person's estate is assured to him. These common assurances are of four kinds:-(1) By matter in pais, or deed, which is an assurance transacted between two or more private persons, in pais, iin the country; that is (according to the old Common Law) upon the very spot to be transferred. (2) By matter of record, or an assurance transacted only in the sovereign's public courts of record, or under the authority of a public board or commission empowered by Act of Parliament to record its proceedings. (3) By special custom obtaining in some particular places and relating only to some particular species of property: which three are such as take effect during the life of the party conveying or assuring. (4) The fourth takes no effect till after his death, and that is by devise, contained in his last will and testament, 2 Bl. Com. 294....
Assurances
Assurances. The legal evidences of the transfer of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom, whereby every man's estate is assured to him, and all controversies, doubts, and difficulties are either prevented or removed, 2 Bl. Com. 294. The term, which is usually confined to transfers of land, is defined in the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, which regulates assurances of land to charitable uses, as including 'a gift, conveyance, appointment, lease, transfer, settlement, mortgage charge, incumbrance devise, bequest, and every other assurance by deed, will, or other instrument.' For other definitions see (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 129(9) and (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 133 and 205(1)(ii)....
Government assurances
Government assurances, is the assurances, pro-mises, undertakings given by ministers for time to time on the floor of the House; for ensuring their implementation in reasonable time, Committee on Government Assurances was set up in Lok Sabha which scrutinizes the assurances and examines whether they were implemented within reasonable time and presents its report to the House, Practice and Procedure of Parliament M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 860.Rajya Sabha has a separate Committee which scrutinizes the assurances given by ministers on the floor of the House, Rule of Procedure and Conduct (Rajya Sabha) Business in the Council of States, 5th Edn., July 2000, r. 212A (Rajya Sabha)...
assured
assured pl: assured or: assureds : insured ...
Basic life assurance and general annuity business
Basic life assurance and general annuity business, means life assurance business other than pension business and overseas life, assurance business, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(1), 4th Edn. Para 220, p. 179....
assurance
assurance 1 a : the act of assuring b : guarantee 2 : the act of conveying real property ;also : the document by which it is conveyed 3 chiefly Brit : insurance ...
assure
assure as·sured as·sur·ing 1 chiefly Brit : insure 2 a : to inform positively [the seller assured the buyer of his honesty] b : to provide a guarantee of ...
Assured
Assured, a person assured and indemnified against certain events. See INSURANCE....
Further assurance, Covenant for
Further assurance, Covenant for, one of the usual covenants entered into by a vendor for the protection of the vendee's interest in the subject of purchase, to the effect that the vendor will, at the request and cost of the vendee, execute further conveyances, etc., for more perfectly assuring the subject-matter of the conveyance; implied in conveyances made on or after Jan. 1st, 1882, expressed to be made by a 'beneficial owner,' or if other terms of art are employed, according to the case by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 76, and the Second Schedule re-enacting and extending s. 7 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881...
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