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Calendar year, means the year commencing on the 1st day of January. [Copy Right Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2(e)]--means the period of twelve months beginning with the first day of January in any year. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (bb)]...
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...
Year to year
Year to year, in s. 17(d) of the Registration Act, 1908, would mean that it relates to a year according to the 'British Calender' and not according to vernacular calendar. If this position is accepted, the lease deed of immovable property, from year to year, would become compulsorily registrable, if it is for a British calendar year, and not for a vernacular year. The words 'yearly rent' will have to be interpreted in the same manner as the words 'year to year' are interpreted, viz., the yearly rent according to British and not vernacular calendar, Dimili Narayana v. Dimili Stayanarayan, (1975) 2 Andh WR 226: (1975) 1 APLJ 372: 1975 ALT 190....
Recruitment year
Recruitment year, means the English calendar year during which the recruitment is actually made, Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) Nomadic Tribes, Special Backward Categories and Other Backward Classes) Act, 2001, s. 2(j).Means the year in which recruitment is actually made, S. Rajendran v. Union of India, (1998) 3 SCC 620.The recruitment year is the year in which recruit-ment takes place, but not each three successive years in which the vacancy exists, Harish Chandra Ram v. Mukh Ram Dubey, 1994 Supp (2) SCC 490 (492)....
taxable year
taxable year : a period of time used as the basis of tax computation that is usually the annual accounting period of a calendar year or fiscal year called also tax year ...
New Years Day
the first day of a calendar year the first day of January Often colloquially abbreviated to New years or new year...
Calendar
Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Roman calendar
The calendar of the ancient Romans from which our modern calendars are derived It is said to have consisted originally of ten months Martius Aprilis Maius Junius Quintilis Sextilis September October November and December having a total of 304 days Numa added two months Januarius at the beginning of the year and Februarius at the end making in all 355 days He also ordered an intercalary month Mercedinus to be inserted every second year Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed this calendar fell into confusion It was replaced by the Julian calendar In designating the days of the month the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points the calends the nones and the ides The calends were always the first day of the month The ides fell on the 15th in March May July Quintilis and October and on the 13th in other months The nones came on the eighth day the ninth counting the id...
Mohammedan calendar
A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira hejira 622 a d Thirty of its years constitute a cycle of which the 2d 5th 7th 10th 13th 16th 18th 21st 24th 26th and 29th are leap years having 355 days the others are common having 354 days...
Hindoo calendar
A lunisolar calendar of India according to which the year is divided into twelve months with an extra month inserted after every month in which two new moons occur once in three years...
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