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Circle rate, is notified by the Government for the guidance of the sub-registrar. Anil Kumar Srivastava v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2004) 8 SCC 671....
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value 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. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
Agricultural rates
Agricultural rates, The (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, as amended by the (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1923, provides that the occupier (including the owner if rated in place of the occupier) of agricultural land shall be liable to one quarter only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. These exemptions were preserved by the (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, s. 22, but agricultural land and buildings are now entirely derated, see the (English) Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and the Local Government Act, 1929, s. 67....
adjustable-rate mortgage (arm)
adjustable-rate mortgage (arm) a mortgage loan that does not have a fixed interest rate. During the life of the loan the interest rate will change based on the index rate. Also referred to as adjustable mortgage loans (AMLs) or variable-rate mortgages (VRMs). Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Current official scale of rates
Current official scale of rates, the expression 'current' means 'vogue' or 'prevalent'; and 'current rate' may mean the rate obtaining at a particular time or at a future time or from time to time. The terms goes well with the present, future and recurrent, the words 'current official' scale of rates' in para IV of the agreement mean the official scale of rates current or prevalent from time to time during the currency of the agreement, Gopisetti Venkatratmam v. Vijayawada Municipality, AIR 1966 SC 353 (354, 355): (1965) 3 SCR 276. [Electricity Act, (9 of 1910), s. 21(2)]...
Quarter-rating
Quarter-rating. The rating on only one-fourth part of the net annual value-a privilege enjoyed by owners of railways and other kinds of property under s. 211 of the Public Health Act, 1875. But now as to exemptions, total or otherwise, from rates in the case of agricultural, industrial and freight transport hereditaments, see the Rating and Valuation Acts, 1925 to 1932; Bailey v. Stoke on Trent Assessment Committee, etc., (1931) 1 KB 385. [The Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and Local Government Act, 1929, ss. 67-73]...
Rate applicable to the total income of the company
Rate applicable to the total income of the company, the expression 'rate applicable to the total income of the company' meant the rate actually applied. The clause referred to the specific or definite rate which was determined to be applicable to the taxable income of the company for that specific year and not to the rate prescribed by the Act for the relevant year generally in reference to incomes of companies, Rajputana Agencies Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1959 SC 265: (1959) Supp 1 SCR 142....
annual percentage rate (apr)
annual percentage rate (apr) a measure of the cost of credit, expressed as a yearly rate. It includes interest as well as other charges. Because all lenders, by federal law, follow the same rules to ensure the accuracy of the annual percentage rate, it provides consumers with a good basis for comparing the cost of loans, including mortgage plans. APR is a higher rate than the simple interest of the mortgage. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
rate cap
rate cap a limit on an ARM on how much the interest rate or mortgage payment may change. Rate caps limit how much the interest rates can rise or fall on the adjustment dates and over the life of the loan. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Church-rates
Church-rates, tributes by which the expenses of the church are to be defrayed; made by the parishioners at large, that is, by the majority of those present at a vestry summoned for that purpose by the church-wardens, formerly recoverable in the Ecclesiastical Court or, if the arrears did not exceed 10l. and no questions were raised as to the legal liability, before two justices of the peace.Compulsory church-rates were abolished by the Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 109), except so far as partly applicable to any secular purpose.The Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1), gave to Parochial Church Councils power to levy a voluntary church-rate....
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