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Calendar month, a period of time consisting of 30 days in April, June, September, and November; of 31 days in the remainder of the months, except February, which consists of 28 days, except in leap-year, when the intercalary day is added, making 29 days. See MONTH....
Month
Month [fr. monath, Sax., moon, which was formerly written mone, as month was written moneth]. The period in which that planet moneth, i.e., completeth its orbit.It is either--(1) Lunar, the time between the change and change, or the time in which the moon returns to the same point, being twenty-eight days.(2) Solar, that period in which the sun passes through one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.(3) Calendar, by which we reckon time, consisting unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight, and in leap year of twenty nine days. The calendar month is also nine days. The calendar month is also called usual, natural, civil, political.In an Act of Parliament (English), passed after 1850, the word 'month,' which was formerly taken to mean a lunar month, unless calendar month was specified, means calendar month; unless words be added pointing to lunar months [(English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (s. 3), repealing and re-enacting 13 Vict. c. 21]. By th...
Year
Year, means a period commencing on 1st April and ending on 31st March next following. [Rajasthan Public Libraries Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]Means a year commencing on 1st day of April. [Equity Linked Savings Scheme, 2005, s. 2(g)][fr. gear, Sax.], 365 days, twelve calendar months, fifty-two weeks and one day, or in Leap Year (q.v.) 366 days, i.e., fifty-two weeks and two days.The first day of the year was legally altered for England from the 25th of March to 1st of January in and after 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23) (Chitty's Statutes, tit. ' Time '), but as appears from the preamble to that statute, the 1st of January had been the first day of the year in Scotland, in other nations, and by ' common usage throughout the whole kingdom.' See CALENDAR generally, when a statute speaks of a year it must be considered as twelve calendar and not lunar months, Bishop of Peterborough v. Catesby, 1608 Cro Jac 166.For the termination of the statutory year for certain finan...
Executor
Executor. A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose of the property according to his testamentary provisions after his decease.One who performs or carries out some act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 591.The leading duties and responsibilities of an executor may be thus classed:-(1) He will not be allowed as against creditors extravagant funeral expenses if the testator died insolvent; and if he neglects to secure the property, and loss ensue, he will be personally liable for a devastavit, but will not be responsible for mere neglect to take out probate (Re Stevens, (1898) 1 Ch 162). See DEVASTAVIT.(2) By operation of law by virtue of his office he takes a title to the personal property of the testator which vests him with full power ovr the testator's chattels, Attenborough v. Solomon, 1913 AC 76, and by Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 1, extending and amending the Land Transfer Act, 1897, real property devolves...
Average
Average, a medium, a mean proportion used in various senses:-(1) A service which a tenant owes to his lord by doing work with his avers.(2) A shipping or insurance term. (a) Average, or more fully general average, is where any damage or loss has been properly and voluntarily incurred in respect of a ship or cargo for its safety, e.g., goods thrown overboard in a storm to lighten the ship. Such loss by maritime law is shared proportionately between the shipowners and the owners of the cargo, according to value. This risk is almost always covered by insurance. An Average Bond is a bond entered into by the consignees of a cargo with the shipowners, when a general average loss has been sustained by the ship, binding the former to pay their proportion as soon as ascertained. (b) Particular average is damage, or loss to a ship, or cargo, other than a general average loss. Such a loss rests where it falls, that is to say, is borne by the owner of the thing lost or damaged, or by his insurer, ...
current monthly income
current monthly income The average monthly income received by the debtor over the six calendar months before commencement of the bankruptcy case, including regular contributions to household expenses from nondebtors and income from the debtor's spouse if the petition is a joint petition, but not including social security income and certain other payments made because the debtor is the victim of certain crimes. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Enrollment
Enrollment, register, record; writing in which anything is recorded.The act of recording or registering, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 551.By the Statute of Enrolments, 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, now repealed by the (English) L.P. Amendment Act, 1924 (15 Geo. 5, c. 5),Sch. 10, every bargain and sale of a freehold interest was required to be enrolled in Chancery within six [lunar] months after its date.No assurance before 1926 by a tenant-in-tail under the (English) Fines and Recoveries abolition Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), will have any operation unless enrolled in the Central Office within six calendar months after its execution, which enrolment is sufficient of itself, even where the conveyance was by bargain and sale, within the Statute of Enrolments. This provision did not extend to copyholds, the enrolment then being on the Court-rolls of the manor. By s. 133 the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, enrolment is not required in respect of assurances or instruments executed or ma...
February
The second month in the year said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa In common years this month contains twenty eight days in the bissextile or leap year it has twenty nine days...
Bill of costs
Bill of costs, an account of the charges and disbursements of an attorney or solicitor incurred in the conduct of his client's business. It must be delivered, signed, to the client, one calendar month before an action can be brought to recover the amount thereof, in order to give the client an opportunity of taxing it. An executor or administrator of an attorney or solicitor must also deliver a bill of costs, signed, and delivered, before he can sue upon it. See (English) Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), ss. 64 and 65. As to taxation, ibid., ss. 66 to 68, and see the (English) Solicitors Remuneration Order, 1932 (S.R. & O. of 1932, No. 940); Chit. Stat., tit. 'Solicitors....
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