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Regularly kept books of account, to ascertain whether a book of account has been regularly kept the nature of occupation is an eminent factor for weighment. The test of regularity of keeping accounts by a shopkeeper who has daily transactions cannot be the same as that of a broker in real estates. Not only their systems of maintaining books of account will differ but also the yardstick of contemporaneity in making entries therein. It is not possible to accept the view that an entry must necessarily be made in the book of account at or about the time the related transaction takes place so as to enable the book to pass the test of 'regularly kept'. The rule fixes no precise time and each case must depend upon its own circumstances, CBI v. V.C. Shukla, AIR 1998 SC 1406: (1998) 3 SCC 410....
egularly kept books of account
egularly kept books of account, to ascertain whether a book of account has been regularly kept the nature of occupation is an eminent factor for weighment. The test of regularity of keeping accounts by a shopkeeper who has daily transactions cannot be the same as that of a broker in real estates. Not only their systems of maintaining books of account will differ but also the yardstick of contemporaneity in making entries therein. It is not possible to accept the view that an entry must necessarily be made in the book of account at or about the time the related transaction takes place so as to enable the book to pass the test of 'regularly kept'. The rule fixes no precise time and each case must depend upon its own circumstances, CBI v. V.C. Shukla, AIR 1998 SC 1406: (1998) 3 SCC 410....
Kissing the book
Kissing the book, kissing the New Testament on taking an oath (see that title). This practice, which has of late years been much objected to on sanitary grounds, is peculiar to English Courts, and even in them has not been in use for much more than 150 years; the original practice having been for the witness only to place his hand on the New Testament in order to take the 'corporal oath' (see that title, and see Best on Evidence, 9th Edn., at p. 147).The practice of kissing the thumb, or some part of the Book instead of the Book itself, was emphatically condemned by the late Mr. Justice Byrne at the close of the Michaelmas sittings in 1901 (see Times for Dec. 23), who observed that there was no excuse whatever for a witness refraining from kissing the Book, when by taking advantage of the Oaths Act to swear by uplifted hand he could get rid of the obligation to swear in the ordinary form. The practice of kissing the thumb only, though followed by many to escape infection, is perhaps fo...
Indecent prints or books
Indecent prints or books. The sale, or obtaining, or procuring of such prints, with intent to sell, is a misdemeanor. The (English) Obscene Publications Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 83) ('Lord Campbell's Act'), gives summary powers to metropolitan or other stipendiary magistrates, or any two justices of the peace, to issue special warrants to constables for the searching of houses, etc., in which obscene books, pictures, etc., are suspected to be kept, on complaint on oath that the complainant believes that such books are there, and that one or more of the like character have been 'sold, distributed, exhibited, lent or otherwise published,' and on the magistrate, etc., being satisfied that any of the Articles are of such a character that the publication of them would be a misdemeanor, and proper to be prosecuted as such-which must be stated [see Ex parte Bradlaugh, (1878) 3 QBD 509]-he may order the seizure and destruction of such books, etc.Publication is not excused by innocent motive...
Bank-book
Bank-book, a small book kept by a bank for a customer, showing the state of his account with it; otherwise termed a 'Pass-book.' A pass-book passing to and from between the bank and a customer is evidence of a stated and settled account, Cunliffe Brooks & Co. v. Blackburn Building Society, (1882) 22 Ch D 61: 9 App Cas 857....
Year-books, or Books of years and terms
Year-books, or Books of years and terms, reports, in a regular series, from the time of King Edward II. to Henry VIII., which were taken by the protho-notaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of the Crown, and published annually; hence their denomination. The Year-books are valuable as documents of progressive law, although they have not been classified or digested in the manner of later reports. See REPORTS....
Dome-book
Dome-book [liber judicialis, Lat.], a book composed under the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom, containing the local customs of the several provinces of the kingdom. This book is said to have been extant so late as the reign of Edward IV., but is now lost....
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....
Bankers' Books Evidence Act
Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1879 (English) (42 & 43 Vict. c. 11), whereby a copy of an entry in a banker's book is made prima facie evidence of the entry, upon proof that the copy has been checked by comparison with the entry.There is power under s. 7 for a magistrate to make an order in criminal proceedings before him for the prosecutor to inspect and take copies of entries in the books of a bank at which the defendant keeps an account, R. v. Kinghorn, 1908 (2) KB 949....
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....
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