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Book of account

keep their accounts, i.e., statements of debits and credits or receipts and payments. A register kept at the counter of a hotel need not contain any statement of account. So until it is shown that such register

Cachet, letters de

Cachet, letters de, letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and counter-signed by a secretary of state, authorizing the imprisonment of a person, usually in the Bastille. Abolished during the

Coin

the (English) Coinage Offences Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 99), it was made a felony to counter-feit coin; to colour or gild, so as to make a resemblance to gold or silver coin; to impair

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Countervailing duty

Countervailing duty, is imposed when excisable articles are imported into the State, in order to counter-balance the excise duty,

County Courts

remit to the County Court any action brought in the HighCourt--(1) where theclaimdoes not exceed 100l., whether the counterclaim (if any) does or does not exceed 100l.; (2) where the only matter remaining to be tried is

Apportionment

a reversion may give notice to quit that part and the lessee has the right to give a counter notice as to the rest of the land demised. As to agricultural holdings, see (English) L. P. Amendment

Cross cases

Such two different versions of the same incident resulting in two criminal cases are compendiously called 'case and counter case' by some High Court and 'cross cases' by some other High Courts, Sudhir v. State of Madhya

Curtesy of England

curtesy to Henry I., but Nthaniel Bacon (Government, 4 to, 1647, p. 105) calls it a law of counter-tenure to that of dower, and yet supposes it as ancient at the time of the Saxons, an tht

Existing permit-holder on inter-State route

Existing permit-holder on inter-State route, where a permit has been counter-signed by the concerned R.T.A. in Andhra Pradesh. Hence he must be held to be an existing permit-holder on

Fire

burnt down, the loss falls on the intending purchaser or tenant, Paine v. Meller, (1801) 6 Ves 349; Counter v. Macpherson, (1845) 5 Moore PC 83; and he cannot claim the benefit of any subsisting insurance that

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