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Book value, means the value of something as shown on book keeping records as distinguished from market value, the value of an asset equal to cost less deprecation, the value of a corporation's capital stock expressed as its original cost less deprecation and liabilities, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 57....
Black book
Black book, a book kept in the Exchequer, and at the Admiralty....
minute book
minute book 1 : a book in which written minutes or other records are entered 2 : the official written record of the transactions of the stockholders and directors of a corporation ...
Books and Papers and Books or Papers
Books and Papers and Books or Papers, include accounts, deeds, writings and documents, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 1213, p. 949....
Fleet-books
Fleet-books. These books contain the original entries of marriages solemnized in the Old Fleet Prison from 1686 to 1754, but are not, it is said, admissible in evidence to prove a marriage, for they were not made under public authority. But perhaps on a question of pedigree, they ae evidence to show the name by which a woman passed when she was married there. The books are now deposited in the office of the Registrar-General, pursuant to the (English) Non-Parochial Registers Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 92), ss. 6, 23, Taylor on Evid., s. 1430; Hubback on Succession, p. 510....
booking
booking : a procedure at a jail or police station following an arrest in which information about the arrest (as the time, the name of the arrested person, and the crime for which the arrest was made) is entered in the police register NOTE: The arrested person is usually photographed and fingerprinted at the time of the booking. ...
Books
Books. All the volumes which contain authentic reports of decisions in English Courts, from the earliest times to the present, are sometimes called, par excellence, 'The Books.' See REPORTS....
Paper Book
Paper Book, the issues in law, etc., upon special pleadings, formerly made up by the clerk of the papers, who was an officer for that purpose, but latterly by the plaintiff's attorney or agent. See Jac. Law Dict.; 3 Bl. Com. 317.Any party who enters an action for trial must deliver to the officer of the court two copies of the whole of the pleadings, one for the use of the judge at the trial [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI., r. 30]....
Prayer Book
Prayer Book. See UNFORMITY, ACT OF....
Red-book of the Exchequer
Red-book of the Exchequer [liber rubens scaccarii, Lat.], an ancient record, wherein are registered the names of those who held lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II, Ryley, 667. See Hary. Co. Litt. 68 b, Note (7)....
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