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Compound householder. The payment of rates was formerly one of the ingredients in the qualification for the parliamentary franchise; but modern statutes have enabled the owners of small houses to pay the rates for the occupiers and receive a composition for so doing. To prevent the occupiers being disfranchised by this process, it was enacted that they might claim to be rated themselves, and such householders so claiming became commonly known as 'compound householders,' as appears from the title to the Act, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 14, now repealed, see Representation of People Act, 1918, Schedule 8....
Shared household
Shared household, means a household where the person aggrieved lives or at any stage has lived in a domestic relationship either singly or along with the respondent and includes such a household whether owned or tenanted either jointly by the aggrieved person and the respondent, or owned or tenanted by either of them in respect of which either the aggrieved person or the respondent or both jointly or singly have any right, title, interest or equity and includes such a household which may belong to the joint family of which the respondent is a member, irrespective of whether the respondent or the aggrieved person has any right, title or interest in the shared household. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(s)]Shared household, no doubt the definition of 'shared household' in s. 2(s) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence, Act, 2005, is not very happily worded, and appears to be the result of clumsy drafting, but the Supreme Court gave it an interpretati...
Intended for personal or household use
Intended for personal or household use, the expression 'intended for personal or household use' did not mean capable of being intended for personal or household use. It meant normally, commonly orordinarily intended for personal or household use, H.H. Maharaja Rana Hemant Singhji v. CIT, AIR 1976SC 662 (665): (1976) 1 SCC 996: (1976) 3 SCR 423....
Counting-house of the King's household
Counting-house of the King's household, usually called the Board of Green Cloth, where sit the lord-steward and treasurer of the king's house, the comptroller, master of the household, cofferer, and two clerks of the Green Cloth, for daily taking the accounts of all expenses of the household, making provisions, and ordering payment for the same, 39 Eliz. C. 7. See Jac. Law Dict....
head of household
head of household :an unmarried individual who is not a surviving spouse and who maintains a household which for more than one-half of the taxable year is the principal abode of a person who qualifies as a dependent under section 2(b) of the Internal Revenue Code ...
householder
householder : a person who occupies a house alone or as head of a household ;specif : one who makes a declaration of homestead ...
Compound and common compound
Compound and common compound, it is axiomatic to say that the term 'compound' is different from the term 'common compound'. The former is the individual compound of a building, latter is the common compound for all the buildings situated therein, Municipal Board v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., (1999) 1 SCC 566: AIR 1999 SC 264 (272). [Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916 (2 of 1916), s. 129(a) Exp. (q)]...
Common compound
Common compound, the aforesaid meaning of the term 'common' read in the light of term 'compound' as an adjective makes it very clear that if the compound land is shared in common by occupants of number of building situated there in it would be a common compound for them, Municipal Board, Shaharanpur v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., AIR 1999 SC 264.Common compound, any land used in common by the occupants of buildings situated in such common land can be said to form a 'common compound' covering all such buildings and once that conclusion is reached, Municipal Board Saharanpur v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., (1999) 1 SCC 566....
Compounding
Compounding, arranging, coming to terms; compounding a felony is where the party robbed not only knows the felon, but also takes his goods again, or other amends, upon an agreement not to prosecute; this offence was denominated theftbote. It is a misdemeanour and is punishable by fine and imprisonment. See Reg. v. Burgess, (1885) 16 QBD 141.It is no offence to compound a misdemeanour unless the offence is virtually an offence against the public, for the party injured may maintain an action to recover compensation in damages. See Keir v. Leeman, (1844) 6 QB 308; (1846) 9 QB 371; Odgers on the Common Law. And compounding offences only cognizable before magistrates on summary jurisdiction is not within 18 Eliz. c. 5.Corruptly to take reward for helping a person to recover stolen goods is felony (Larceny Act, 1916, s. 34); and to advertise a reward for the return of things stolen by an advertisement representing that no questions will be asked, etc., incurs a penalty of 50l. (Larceny Act, ...
Compound
Compound, itself denotes a mixture of components, Union of India v. Pesticides Manufacturing and Formulators Association of India, (2002) 8 SCC 410.To be a compound to the building, the land must form an adjunct or appendage to the building or a cluster of buildings being available to the occupiers of such building for their exclusive use, Municipal Board Saharanpur v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., (1999) 1 SCC 566.Individual compound of a building the latter is the common compound for all the buildings situated therein....
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