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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

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

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,

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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

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.

Friendly societies

Societies into branches, and other matters; in 1879 by 42 Vict. c. 9 as to the receipt of contributions at a greater distance than ten miles from the registered office; and in 1887 by 50 & 51

Insurance

distinguished from the sue and labour clause (q.v.) in Marine Insurance policies, which does not cover general average contributions or salvage, see (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906, s. 78(2). (4) Expense of raising money to replace what

Joint authors

more authors who collaborate in producing a copyrightable work, each author intending to merge his or her respective contributions into a single work, and each being able to exploit the work as desired while remaining accountable for

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

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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