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Preferential payments

debts are to have priority over the claims of holders of debentures or debenture stock under any floating charge created by a company. The debts are a first charge on goods or proceeds distrained upon within three

creditor

or goods are due compare debtor, obligor general creditor : a creditor who is not secured by a lien or other security interest called also unsecured creditor judgment creditor : a creditor who has a money judgment

Notice

case was decided has become statutory under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, and the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. See s. 199 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, sub tit. CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE, and see

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Rate

is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268. The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s.

Puisne mortgage

meant a mortgage sub-sequent to the mortgage of a legal estate, but for the purposes of the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10 (1) (Class C.), it is enacted that 'puisne mortgage' means any legal mortgage (including

Redemption

Redemption, is the act of redeeming, which in its ordinary meaning is equal to bringing off a charge or obligation by payment--.By the down payment, the entire land revenue to be recovered from that land was

Right to receive

Right to receive, the sums secured will accrue, not when the charge is granted, but when the future event occurs. Thus, in the case of a conventional mortgage, the charge

Salary or wages

the State for cash or deferred payment or other valuable considera-tion but does not include a mortgage, hypotheca-tion, charge or pledge. [Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(24)] Means a sale of goods made within the

Service

the purveying of news or other information, but does not include the rendering of any service free of charge or under a contract of personal service. [Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), s. 2(zb)] 'Service'

Toll

for use of something esp. The consideration paid to use a public road, highway, or bridge 2. A charge for a long call distance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. [fr. tol, Sax. And Dut.; told, Dan.; toll,

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