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Clearing, a among London bankers a method adopted by them for exchanging the drafts of each other's houses, and settling the difference. At fixed hours, each day, a clerk from each banker attends at the clearing-house, bringing all the drafts on the other bankers which have been paid into his house during the day, and delivers to each of the other clerks the obligations he has against his house, receiving from each the obligations due from his own. Balances are struck at the end of the day, the clerk to the Clearing House making up the accounts between each bank. The balances are not paid to or received from the other bankers as formerly, but are settled with the Clearing House, which keeps an account itself at the Bank of England. There is also a Country Clearing House. Consult McLeod on Banking; Grant's Law of Banking, 6th Edn. P. 66.Maritime law. The departure of a ship from port after complying with customs, health laws and other local regulations, Black's Law Dictionary,7th Edn., ...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
Emigrate and emigration
Emigrate and emigration, mean the departure out of India of any person with a view to taking up any employment (whether or not under an agreement or other arrangements to take up such employment and whether with or without the assistance of a recruiting agent or employer) in any country or place outside India. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1)(f)]...
Hinefare
Hinefare, the loss or departure of a servant from his master, Domesday....
Northing
Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning measured on a meridian opposed to southing...
Jurisdiction of suspicion
Jurisdiction of suspicion, Provision for preventive detention, in itself, is a departure from ordinary norms. It is generally resorted to either in times of war or apprehended internal disorders and disturbances of a serious nature. Its object is to prevent a greater danger to national security and integrity than any claim which could be based upon a right, moral or legal, to individual liberty. It has been aptly described as a 'jurisdiction of suspicion', Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207 (1295): (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172....
Migration
Migration, embraces two factors: (1) going from one place to another, and (2) the intention to make the destination a place of abode or residence in future; it has the motion of transference of allegiance from the country of departure to the country of adoption, Badruz Zaman v. State, AIR 1951 All 16.Migration, means coming to India with the intention of residing here permanently, Shrimati Sanno Devi v. Mangal Sain, AIR 1961 SC 810.Migration is changing one's abode, quitting one's place of abode and settling permanently at another place, Vimla Bai v. Hiralal Gupta, (1990) 2 SCC 22....
Motor transport worker
Motor transport worker, means a person who is employed in a motor transport undertaking directly or through an agency, whether for wages or not, to work in a professional capacity on a transport vehicle or to attend to duties in connection with the arrival, departure, loading or unloading of such transport vehicle and includes a driver, conductor, cleaner, station staff, line checking staff, booking clerk, cash clerk, depot clerk, time-keeper, watchman or attendant, but except in s. 8 does not include-(i) any such person who is employed in a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948;(ii) any such person to whom the provisions of any law for the time being in force regulating the conditions of service of persons employed in shops or commercial establishments apply. [The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2 (h) (i) (ii)]...
Planned development
Planned development, is the crucial zone that strikes a balance between the needs of large-scale urbanization and individual building. It is the science and aesthetics or urbanization as it saves the development from chaos and uglification. A departure from planning may result in disfiguration of the beauty of an upcoming city and may pose a threat for the ecological balance and environmental safeguards, Padma v. Hirala Motilal Desarda, (2002) 7 SCC 564).Means a scheme of arrangement, a scheme of action, project of design, the way in which is proposed to carry out some proceeding, Somdutt v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1976) 2 All LR 529....
Road, Rule of the
Road, Rule of the, the old common law rule, in riding or driving, to keep on the left side (sometimes called the near side) when meeting, and on the right when passing-a departure from which rule is punishable by s. 78 of the Highways Act, 1835, and also by Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1931, S.R. & O. 1931, No. 4. See HIGHWAYS....
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