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Home Dictionary Name: callPower of Court to order meeting to be called
Power of Court to order meeting to be called, powers of Court to order meeting to be called. - (1) If for any reason it is impracticable to call a meeting of a company, other than an annual general meeting, in any manner in which meetings of the company may be called, or to hold or conduct the meeting of the company in the manner prescribed by this Act or the articles, the Court may, either of its own motion or on the application of any director of the company, or of any member of the company who would be entitled to vote at the meeting. - (a) order a meeting of the company to be called, held and conducted in such manner as the Court thinks fit; and (b) give such ancillary or consequential directions as the Court thinks expedient, including directions modifying or supplementing in relation to the calling, holding and conducting of the meeting the operation of the provisions of this Act and of the company's articles. Explanation. - The directions that may be given under this sub-section...
call
call 1 : to announce or recite loudly [ed the civil trial list] 2 : to admit (a person) as a barrister [was ed to the bar] 3 : to demand payment of esp. by formal notice [ a loan] 4 : to demand presentation of (as a bond or option) for redemption NOTE: A security issuer may call a security only if calling it is previously provided for, as, for example, in the indenture for a bond or in the stock agreement for preferred stock. The issuer usually pays the holder a premium for a called security. n 1 : a demand for payment of money: as a : a notice by the U.S. Treasury to depositories to transfer part of its deposit balance to the Federal Reserve bank b : a notice to a stockholder or subscriber to pay an assessment or an installment of subscription to capital 2 : call option at option 3 a : a formal announcement or recitation [the daily of the motion calendar] b : roll call [the speaker ordered a of the house] ...
Call of the House
Call of the House, an imperative summons sent to every member of the House of Commons, on some particular occasion, when the presence of the whole House is deemed necessary. Members not attending when their names are called are reported as defaulters, and ordered to attend on another day, when, if they still be absent, and no excuse offered, they may be committed to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. No such call has been enforced since 1836, when there was a call on Mr. Whittle Harvey's Motion on the Pension List. Since then calls have been ordered, but afterwards discharged or negatived. Motions for a call were negatived on July, 10, 1855, and March 23, 1882, May's Parl. Pr. 11th Edn., p. 182....
calendar call
calendar call : a session of the court which is held to inquire into the status of cases and in which the cases are called by name and are scheduled for trial if the parties indicate readiness called also call of the list ...
roll call
roll call : the act or an instance of calling off a list of names (as for checking attendance) ;specif : an act or instance of calling the roll of a legislative body to determine if there is a quorum or to vote on a matter ...
Call
Call, 1, (1) The election of students to the degree of barrister-at-law, hence (2) the ceremony or epoch of election, and (3) the number of persons elected. See INNS OF COURT.2. The demand for payment of an instalment other than payments due at fixed dates by the terms of the prospectus or agreement to take shares, Croskey v. Bank of Wales, (1863) 4, 9 Giff 314, due upon shares. On the issue of shares a certain portion only of the issue price is usually demanded on allotment and at fixed dates thereafter: the balance is sometimes payable when demanded. In the case of limited companies the calls are limited to the total amount unpaid on each share. There is an implied promise by a purchaser of shares that he will indemnify the vendor against all future calls on shares, Spencer v. Asworth, Partington & Co., (1925) 1 KB 589. See COMPANY and CONTRIBUTORY; FLOATING CHARGE and TABLE A. (Articles 11 to 16).3. A Stock Exchange term for the right to buy stock or shares at a fixed price on a cer...
Calling attention
Calling attention, in Indian Parliament, a member may, with the previous permission of the Speaker, call the attention of a minister to a matter of urgent public importance and request a statement thereon, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS).Only matters concerning the Government of India can be raised through a Calling Attention Notice, the notice must be given on the same day on which a matter has arisen or become publicly known, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS).In the Lok Sabha not more than five members whose names are shown in the list of business are allowed to ask clarificatory questions, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS)....
Calling the jury
Calling the jury, successively drawing out of a box, into which they have been previously put, the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius record, and calling them over in the order in which they are so drawn. The twelve persons whose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn or the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with respect to any of them, shall be brought forward....
call in
call in : call ...
call of the list
call of the list :calendar call ...
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