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Discharge from liability, the words are apt to ex-press an intention of total extinction of the liability and should, specially in view of the international character of the legislation, be construed in that sense. Once the liability is extinguished under this clause, there is no scope of any acknowledgement of liability thereafter, East and West Steamship Co. v. S.K. Ramajingam, AIR 1960 SC 1058 (1065). [Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925, Sch. .. Art. III, para 6, Cl. 3]...
Discharged from liability
Discharged from liability, total extinction of the liability, East and West Steamship Co. v. S.K. Ramalingam Chettiar, AIR 1960 SC 1058: (1960) 3 SCR 820....
Discharge
Discharge, to relieve of a duty. A sheriff is said to be discharged of his prisoner; a prisoner discharged from custody; a jury discharged from the cause. See next title.A rule nisi is discharged when the Court decides that it shall not be made absolute, i.e., that the party who obtained the rule nisi should take nothing, and the suit remain in statu quo. See RULE.In a warrant case instituted otherwise than on a police report, 'discharge' or 'acquittal' of accused are distinct concepts applicable to different stages of the proceedings in Court. The legal effect and incidents of 'discharge' and 'acquittal' are also different. An order of discharge in a warrant case instituted on complaint, can be made only after the process has been issued and before the charge is framed. S. 253(1) shows that as a general rule there can be no order of discharge unless the evidence of all the prosecution witnesses has been taken and the Magistrate considers for reasons to be recorded, in the light of the...
discharge
discharge 1 : to release from an obligation: as a : to relieve of a duty under an instrument (as a contract or a negotiable instrument) ;also : to render (an instrument) no longer enforceable [a formal instrument…may be discharged by either cancellation or surrender "J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo"] b : to release (a debtor in bankruptcy) from liability for his or her debts 2 : to release from confinement, custody, or care [ a prisoner] 3 a : to dismiss from employment : terminate the employment of b : to release from service or duty [ a jury] [ a witness] 4 a : to get rid of (as a debt or obligation) by performing an appropriate action b : to fulfill a requirement for [evidence which is required to the burden of going forward "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 5 : to order (a legislative committee) to end consideration of a bill in order to bring it before the house for action dis·charge·abil·i·ty [dis-chÄ r-jə-bi-lə-tē...
exoneration
exoneration 1 : the act of disburdening or discharging (as from a charge, liability, obligation, duty, or responsibility) ;also : the state of being so freed 2 a : the right of a person who has paid a debt for which he or she is only secondarily liable to be reimbursed by the person primarily liable b : the right of a surety to require a person or estate that is subject to a liability for which the surety is secondarily liable to discharge the liability thus relieving the surety ;also : the equitable remedy by which the surety compels discharge of the liability ...
Paid
Paid, means payable and is equivalent to offered or tendered, Mohammed Basbir v. Azizul Kadar, AIR 1967 All 1: (1966) AWR (HC) 442.Paid, takes in every receipt by the employee from the employer whether it was due to him or not, Commissioner of Income Tax, Kerala and Coimbatore v. L.W. Russell, AIR 1965 SC 49. [Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 7(1)]Paid, the expression 'paid' in s. 16(2) does not contemplate actual receipt of the dividend by the member. In general, dividend may be said to be paid within the meaning of s. 16(2) when the company discharges its liability and makes the amount of dividend unconditionally available to the member entitled thereto, J. Dalmia v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1964 SC 1866: (1964) 7 SCR 579. [Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 16(2)]The expression 'paid' in s. 16(2) does not contemplate actual receipt of the dividend by the member. The only difference between the expression 'paid' and the expression 'distribution' is that the latter necessarily involves the idea ...
objection to dischargeability
objection to dischargeability A trustee's or creditor's objection to the debtor being released from personal liability for certain dischargeable debts. Common reasons include allegations that the debt to be discharged was incurred by false pretenses or that debt arose because of the debtor's fraud while acting as a fiduciary. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
dischargeable debt
dischargeable debt A debt for which the Bankruptcy Code allows the debtor's personal liability to be eliminated. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Public trustee
Public trustee. The office of Public Trustee was established by the (English) Public Trustee Act, 1906, which came into force on 1st January, 1908. The Public Trustee is a corporation sole, and may if he thinks fit act in the administration of estates of deceased persons if under one thousand pounds; act as custodian trustee [see that title, and Re Cherry's Trusts, (1914) 1 Ch 83]; act as an ordinary trustee; be appointed to be a judicial trustee (see that title); be appointed administrator of the property of a convict under the Forfeiture Act, 1870; and he may also be appointed an executor and obtain a grant of probate (s. 5). He may be appointed a trustee whether the trust instrument came into operation before or after the Act, and either as an original or a new trustee, or as an additional trustee, in the same cases and manner and by the same persons or Court as if he were a private trustee, with this addition--that he may be appointed sole trustee although the trustees originally a...
Executor de son tort.
Executor de son tort. See (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 28, 29, and s. 55(1)(xi.). If a stranger take upon himself to act as executor or administrator (see 14 Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd Edn., para. 282), without any just authority (as by intermeddling with the goods of the deceased, and any other transactions), he is called in Law an executor of his own wrong, de son tort, and is liable to the extent of the assets which have come to him and to all the trouble of an executorship without any of the profits or advantages; but the doing of acts of necessity or humanity, as locking up the goods or burying the corpse of the deceased, will not amount to such an intermeddling as will charge a man as executor of his own wrong. Such an one cannot bring an action himself in right of the deceased; but actions may be brought against him, 1 Wms. Exors.; and see Peters v. Leeder, (1878) 47 LJ QB 573; A.-G. v. New York Breweries Co., 1899 AC 62. As to his liability in respect of a term of years of which...
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