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Charges, expenses, costs. A trustee is entitled as a matter of right to his costs, charges and expenses properly incurred in relation to the trust, and they constitute a first charge on the trust property, both capital and income; see Stott v. Milne, (1884) 25 Ch D 710.Means any amount which may be demanded as a price for the rendering of some service or as price of some goods. Sree Gajanana Motor Transport Co. Ltd. v. State of Karnataka, (1977) 1 SCR 665: (1977) 1 SCC 37: AIR 1977 SC 418 (419).Includes all taxes, Shroff and Co. v. Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, 1989 Supp (1) SCC 347.--The term 'charges' must be read ejusdem generis taking colour from the succeeding terms- rates, duties and taxes, Nagrik Upbhokta M. Manch v. Union of India, (2002) 5 SCC 466: AIR 2002 SC 2405 (2411). [Kerosene (Restriction on Use and Fixation of Ceiling Price) Order, 1993, clause 2(d)]The word 'charges' in Rule 7(1) should be given a wider meaning as denoting the accusations or imputations aga...
Landing charges
Landing charges, are the expenditure incurred by an importer for bringing goods on board ship to land. Landing charges, in law, must be assessed on actuals, but, as a matter of practice, particularly to facilitate expenditure clearance. Landing charges are assessed at a percentage of the value of the goods and such assessment is accepted. When so assessed, landing charges cover the totality of all that an importer expends to bring imported goods to land, M/s Coromandal Fertilisers Ltd. v. Collection of Customs, AIR 2000 SC 606.Are exactly what the words mean, the expenditure incurred by an importer for bringing goods on board ship to land. Landing charges, in law, must be assessed on actuals, but, as a matter of practice, particularly to facilitate expeditious clearance, landing charges are assessed at a percentage of the value of the goods and such assessment is accepted. When so assessed, landing charges cover the totality of all that an importer expends to bring imported goods to la...
Floating charge
A charge lien etc that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed...
Alteration of a charge
Alteration of a charge, an alteration of a charge means changing or variation of an existing charge or making of a different charge, Sohan Lal v. State of Rajasthan, (1990) 4 SCC 580: AIR 1990 SC 2158 (2161). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 216...
By way of specific charge
By way of specific charge, means a specific charge is one that without more fastens on ascertained and definite property or property capable of being ascertained and defined, a floating charge, on the other hand, is ambulatory and shifting in its nature, hovering over and so to speak floating with the property which it is intended to affect until some event occurs or some act is done which causes it to settle and fasten on the subject of the charge within its reach and grasp, Spectrum Plus Ltd. (in re:) (in Liquidation), (2004) LR 337 (CA): (2004) EWHC 9: (2004) EWCA Civ 670...
Charge-sheet
Charge-sheet, a paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in each case. It is under the care of the inspector on duty. Unless the accuser is willing to sign the charge-sheet, the accused will generally not be detained.--The expression 'charge-sheet' is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the Code, described as a 'charge-sheet', Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ss. 170, 169 and 173 (2)]Military law. A four part charging instrument containing (1) information about the accused and the witness, (2) the charges and specifications, (3) the preferring of charges and their referral to a summary. Special or general court-martial for trial, and (4) for a summary court-martial, the trial record, Black's...
Final report, charge-sheet
Final report, charge-sheet, the expressions 'charge-sheet' or 'final-report' are not used in the Code, but it is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the code, described as a 'charge-sheet'. In case of reports sent under s. 169, i.e., where there is no sufficiency of evidence to justify forwarding of a case to a Magistrate, it is termed variously i.e., referred charge, final report or summary, Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal PC, 1973, ss. 169, 170 and 173(2)]...
Possessory lien
Possessory lien. A possessory lien arises at common law from an agreement express or implied. As a rule it is immaterial how possession is obtained, Robbins v. Gray, (1895) 2 QB 501; Keene v. Thomas, (1905) 1 KB 136. The lien can be extinguished by tender of the amount due and may be lost by waiver express or implied, and also only continues so long as actual possession is retained. See LIEN....
Allen charge
Allen charge [from the Supreme Court case Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492 (1896), which upheld the right of a trial judge to make such a charge] : a charge to a deadlocked jury to make a further effort to reach a verdict esp. by each juror considering the others' opinions with deference called also dynamite charge ...
Overhead charges
Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product as where different kinds of goods are made or where there are different departments in a business called also fixed charges establishment charges or in a manufacturing business administration charges selling charges and distribution charges etc...
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