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Emigration of poor persons. See Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 68, by which the council of any county or county borough may, with the consent of the Minister of Health, and in compliance with such rules, orders, and regulations as he may prescribe, procure, or assist in procuring the emigration of, any orphan or deserted child under 16 who is chargeable to the county or county borough; any poor person who is chargeable, or would be, if relieved, be chargeable to the county or county borough; any poor person having a settlement in the county or county borough. In the case of an orphan or deserted child the child must give its consent before a petty criminal court....
Taxation of costs
Taxation of costs. The mode by which certain officers of the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by solicitors from their clients, or by the one party in an action from the other. In the High Court taxation is carried out by Taxing Masters who are Masters of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. Ord. LXI., r. 1B), and in county courts by the registrars.As between party and party a taxation of costs is always had, and the costs disallowed cannot be recovered by the successful from the unsuccessful party, but must be paid by such successful party to his solicitor unless they be disallowed as between solicitor and client.Costs as between solicitor and client can be re-covered by a public authority from an unsuccessful defendant by virtue of s. 1 of the Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893; and also in an action for the infringement of a patent by the plaintiff, if in a prior action he has obtained a certificate of the validity of his patent, under s. 35 (as amended) of the Patents an...
axation of costs
axation of costs. The mode by which certain officers of the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by solicitors from their clients, or by the one party in an action from the other. In the High Court taxation is carried out by Taxing Masters who are Masters of the Supreme Court (R.S.C. Ord. LXI., r. 1B), and in county courts by the registrars.As between party and party a taxation of costs is always had, and the costs disallowed cannot be recovered by the successful from the unsuccessful party, but must be paid by such successful party to his solicitor unless they be disallowed as between solicitor and client.Costs as between solicitor and client can be re-covered by a public authority from an unsuccessful defendant by virtue of s. 1 of the Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893; and also in an action for the infringement of a patent by the plaintiff, if in a prior action he has obtained a certificate of the validity of his patent, under s. 35 (as amended) of the Patents and...
Smuggling
Smuggling, the offence of importing prohibited Articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of Articles into consumption without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue.The crime of importing or exporting illegal articles or articles on which duties have not been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1394.Smuggling is restrained by the statutes relating to the Customs, and in particular by the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.In relation to any goods, means any act or omission which will render such goods liable to confiscation under s. 111 or s. 113. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (39)]The general concept of smuggling contains two elements: one, the bringing into India of goods the import of which is prohibited; and two, the bringing, into the country's trade stream, of goods the import of which is permitted without paying the customs duties with which they are chargeable. The second e...
Liable
Liable, means 'Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution..... Obligated: accountable for or chargeable with. Condition of being bound to respond because a wrong has occurred. Condition out of which a legal liability might arise...... Justly or legally responsible or answerable, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn.; see also Zunjarrao Bhikaji Nagarkar v. Union of India, (1999) 7 SCC 409.Means legally bound, subject to a for or penalty under an obligation, Concise Oxford Dictionary; see also Zunjarrao Bhikaji Nagar Kar v. Union of India, (1999) 7 SCC 409.The word 'liable' means a future possibility or probability happening which may or maynot actually occur, State v. Amru Tulsi Ram, AIR 1957 Punj 55.The word 'liable' occurring in many statutes, has been held as not conveying the sense of an absolute obligation or penalty but merely importing a possibility of attracting such obligation, or penalty, eve...
Accounts duties
Accounts duties. Duties first made payable by the (English) Customs & Inland Revenue Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. C. 12), s. 38, at the same rates as the Probate Duties, upon a donatio mortis causa (q.v.); upon the gift inter vivos of a donor dying within three months; on joint property voluntarily so created and taken by survivorship; and on property taken under a voluntary settlement in which the settlor had reserved a life interest. These duties were in name superseded by the 'Estate Duty' imposed by the (English) Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. C. 30), the property chargeable under the (English) Customs & Inland Revenue Act, 1881, s. 38, being included in the classes of property deemed by the (English) Finance Act, 1894, to 'pass' by death and thus chargeable with the new 'Estate Duty' and the original provisions affecting gifts inter vivos, voluntary settlements, etc., have been considerably amended by subsequent legislation. See ESTATE DUTY....
Postage
Postage, the duty or charge imposed on letters or parcels conveyed by post. See POST OFFICE.The expression means the duty chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (f)]...
Fringe benefit tax
Fringe benefit tax, means the tax chargeable under s. 115WA. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(b)]...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife at the Common Law, though he might do so: (1) under the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will.Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband a...
Legacy duty
Legacy duty, a tax paid to Government on legacies and shares of residue, rising from 1 to 10 per cent. in proportion of the distance of relationship between the testator or intestate and legatee. The personal representative is liable to pay the duty. He must show a receipt signed by the legate giving certain particulars, including the amount or value of the legacy and the duty payable thereon. Duty is then paid and the receipt is stamped. If the duty is not paid by the personal representative the legatee is chargeable. The principal Acts relating to the legacy duty are the (English) Legacy Duty Act, 1796 (36 Geo. 3, c. 52); the (English) Stamp Act, 1815 (55 Geo. 3, c. 184); the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 12), ss. 41-43; and the (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, pt. Iii. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Death Duties.' Consult Hanson or Norman on Death Duties....
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