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Combined school, is a school providing for the age ranges both of a first school and of a middle (deemed primary) school, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 15, para 96, p. 95...
Schoolmaster
Schoolmaster. To an action of trespass for an assault and battery the defendant pleaded that he was the headmaster of a school or college, of which the plaintiff was a pupil, and that the plaintiff combined with other pupils for purposes subversive of the discipline of the school, and the plea was held good: see Fitzgerald v. Northcote, (1865) 4 F&F 656. As to the extent of the powers of a schoolmaster in this respect, see Cleary v. Booth, (1893) 1 QB 465. As to the power of an assistant teacher in a public elementary school to administer corporal punishment, see Mansell v. Griffin, (1908) 1 KB 160 (947). As to the dismissal of a schoolmaster or mistress of a public elementary school, see Smith v. Macnally, (1912) 1 Ch 816; Meyers v. Humell, (1912) 2 Ch 256; Mitchell v. East Sussex C.C., (1914) 109 LT 778; Price v. Rhondda U.D.C., (1923) 2 Ch 372....
Net wealth tax
Net wealth tax, readings on Taxation in Developing, Countries by Fird and Oldman elucidates the concept of Wealth Tax as follows, at page 281: 'The term 'net wealth tax' is therefore deemed to be imposed on the person of the taxpayer, while the property tax often deemed to be imposed on an object - the property itself.' In Harvard Law School World Tax Series - Taxation in Columbia Net Wealth Tax is defined at page 451 thus: 'As a general rule, all debts owed by a tax-payers, whether to residents or to non-residents, are deductible if their existence is established in conformity with the legal requirements. The usual test of deductibility, as applied by the Division of National Taxes, is whether or not there is an actual, enforceable legal obligation the amount of which is fixed or computable as on December 31, of the tax year.' According to Harvard Law School World Tax Series - Taxation in Sweden - this tax has been levied in Sweden since a long time. Now it is regulated by law enacted...
sentence
sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1 : a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime 2 : the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive concurrent sentence : a sentence that runs at the same time as another consecutive sentence : a sentence that runs before or after another cumulative sentence : consecutive sentence in this entry ;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence [di-tər-mə-nət-] : a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time general sentence : a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted NOTE: General sentences are impermissible. in·de·ter·mi·nate s...
Fraud
Fraud, a fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1.A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.).A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670.In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater importance than the intention of the defendant or any representation made to the plaintiff, and the same may b...
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