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Custom-house, the house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation; where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or received; and where ships are cleared out, etc. The principal British custom-house is in London, but there are custom-houses subordinte to it in all the considerable sea-ports...
Custom-house agents
Custom-house agents were persons authorized by the Commissioners of Customs to act for parties at their option in the entry or clearance of ships, and the transaction of general business. They have been abolished for very many years...
Customs
Customs, duties charged upon commodities on their importation into, or exportation out of, a country. They seem to have existed in England before the Conquest, but the king's claim to them was first established by grant of Parliament in the reign of Edward I. These duties were at first, principally laid on wool, woolfels (sheep-skins) and leather when exported. There were also extraordinary duties paid by aliens both on export and import, which were denominated parva custuma, to distinguish them from the former, or magna custuma. The duties of tonnage and pound-age, of which mention is so frequently made in English history, were customs duties; the first being made onwine by the tun, and the latter being ad valorem duty of so much a pound on other merchandise. When these duties were granted to the Crown they were denominated subsidies, and as the duty of poundage had continued for a lengthened period at the rateof 1s. a pound, or five percent., a subsidy came, in the language of the cu...
Custom of the country
Custom of the country, in agriculture, that usage governing the relations of agricultural landlords and tenants which is considered to be incorporated in every farming lease or agreement unless it ibe expressly excluded therefrom. The most important kinds of custom are those by which the tenant on quitting his holding has a right to be compensated for his expenditue on those acts of husbandry of which he cannot obtain thebenefit during the tenancy itself, as where the tenant goes out of Lady-Day, and si either paid in money for the seed and labour which he has expended upon the crop to be reaped in the autumn, or has a right to re-enter to till and gather his 'away-going crop.' See AWAY-GOING CROP.In many parts of England, the custom of the country entitles the tenant to be paid for artificial manures, and in some few, pre-eminently in Lincolnshire, for drainage and buildings; but customs are most variable and difficult to ascertain, and from a comparison of returns procured in 1848 by...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Bill of entry
Bill of entry, an account of the goods entered at the Custom House, both inwards and outwards. It must state the name of the merchant exporting or importing, the quantity and species of merchandise, and whither transported, and whence. Also the name of a daily statistical publication issued by the Customs giving the particulars of goods imported and exported. See (English) Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36).Means a bill of entry referred to in s. 46. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (4)]...
Allowance
Allowance [fr. locare, Lat.; allocare, allogare, It.; alogar, Prov.; louer, allouer, Fr., to place or assign], a deduction, an average payment, a portion.Also in selling goods, or in paying duties upon them, certain deductions are made from their weights, depending on the nature of the packages in which they are inclosed, and which are regulated in most instances by the custom of merchants, and the rules laid down by public offices. These allowances, as they are termed are distinguished by the epithets draft, tare, tret, and cloff.Draft is a deduction from the original or gross weight of goods, and is substracted before the tare is taken off.Tare is an allowance for the weight of the bag, box, cask, or other package in which goods are weighed.Real, or open tare, is the actual weight of the package.Customary tare is, as its name implies, an established allowance for the weight of the package.Computed tare is an estimated allowance agreed upon at the time.Average tare is when a few packa...
Clearance
Clearance, a certificate that a ship has been examined and cleared at the Custom House. See s. 101 and other ss. of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Customs.'...
Post entry
Post entry. When goods are weighed or measured, and the merchant has got an account thereof at the Custom House, and finds his entry already made too small, he must make a post or additional entry for the surplusage in the same manner as the first was done. As a merchant is always in time prior to the clearing of the vessel to make his post, he should take care not to over-enter. However, if this be the case, and an over-entry has been made and more paid or bonded for customs than the goods really landed amount to, the land-waiter and surveyor must signify the same upon oath, and a statement be made and subscribed by the person so over-entered, that neither he, nor any other to his knowledge, had any of the said goods over-entered on board the said ship, or anywhere landed them without payment of custom; which oath must be attested by the collector or comptroller, or their deputies, who then compute the duties and set down on the back of the certificate the several sums to be paid, McC...
Debenture
Debenture [fr. debeo, Lat., to owe] may be defined generally as a charge in writing [not necessarily sealed, see British India, etc., Co. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue, (1881) 7 QBD 165] of certain pro-perty with the repayment at a time fixed of money lent by person therein named at a given interest, but the term is a very elastic one. The word 'debenture' is of ancient origin and appears to have been in use five centuries ago (Palmer's Company Precedents, Pt. III., p. 1); and a document which, though it mentions to security and is only a promise to pay, is properly described as a debentures, and as a marketable security will require to be stamped as such, Spenyer v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, (1907)1 KB 246. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 380, a debenture is defined as including debenture stock, bonds or other securities of a company whether constituting a charge on the assets of the company or not. The charge created by debentures as a rule is fixed on the company's...
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