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Joint venture

transaction for mutual profit or an association of persons or companies jointly undertaking some commercial enterprise wherein all contribute assets and share risks. It requires a community of interest in the performance of the subject-matter, a right

Industrial and Provident Societies

4), provides safeguards for a member when any rules are amended so as to increase his liability to contribute to the share or loan capital, unless his consent to the rule has been obtained in writing. Compare

Exempted employee

2 (ff)] Exempted employee means an employee who is not liable under this Act, to pay the employee's contribution. [Employee's State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), s. 2(10)]

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Hidgild, or Hidegild

Hidgild, or Hidegild [fr. hide, A.-S., skin, and gild, A.-S., a contribution], a sum of money paid by a villain or servant to save himself from whipping, Fleta, 1. 1,

Hat-money

a ship, called primage. In the Guidon de la Mer (see that title) it is described as 'la contribution des chausses out pot de vin du maitre.' See PRIMAGE

Hotchpot

as practised is case in which advancements of an intestate's property must be made upto estate by a contribution or by an accounting, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. As to lands, it only applied to such as

Gild, or Guild

Gild, or Guild [fr. Ang.-Sax. gildan, to pay], a tax, tribute, or contribution; a society or fraternity constituted for mutual protection and benefit, generally in trade, so called because each member

Gaming or gambling

on his premises or suffers them to be used for betting; but to play whist for prizes not contributed to by the players is not within this enactment, because for gaming there must be a chance of

Impost

government on goods imported. In wider sense means any tax or imposition includes every kind of tax or contribution not covered under the ordinary terms 'taxes and excise', A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p.

Fyrd, fyrdung

Fyrd, fyrdung, the military array or land force of the whole country. Contribution to the fyrd was one of the imposts forming the trinoda necessitas.

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