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Home Dictionary Name: draft Page: 3 Page 3 of about 94 results (0.002 seconds)Enface
To write or print on the face of a draft bill etc as to enface drafts with memoranda...
Projet
A plan proposed a draft of a proposed measure a project...
Redraft
To draft or draw anew...
Redraw
To draw again to make a second draft or copy of to redraft...
Acceptance of bill of exchange
Acceptance of bill of exchange, 'Acceptance' in regard to a bill of exchange does not'mean 'taking' or 'receiving'. Acceptance of a bill of exchange is the signification by the drawee of his assent to the order of the drawer. It is the act by which the drawee evinces his consent to comply with, and be bound by, the request contained in a bill of exchange directed to him, and is the drawee's agreement to pay the bill when it falls due. In commercial parlance acceptance of a bill of exchange is the drawee's signed engagement to honour the draft as presented, American Express Bork Ltd. v. Calcutta Steel Co., (1993) 2 SCC 199 (207). [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, ss. 7, 32, 33]...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Advance note
Advance note. A draft on the owners of a ship or their agents issued by the captain to a seaman for a sum not exceeding a month's wages payable to the seaman's order after the sailing of the ship, provided he goes to sea pursuant to his agreement. (Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 140)...
Banking
Banking, means the accepting, for the purpose of lending or investment, of deposits of money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise, and withdrawal by cheque, draft, order or otherwise. [Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949), s. 5 (b)]The expression 'banking' in Entry 45, List I means all forms of business which since the introduction of western methods of banking in India, banking institutions have been carrying on in addition to banking as defined in S. 5(b) of the Banking Regulation Act, and on that account all forms of business described in S. 6(1) of the Banking Regulation Act in clauses (a) to (n) are, if carried on in addition to the 'hard-core of banking' banking and the Parliament is competent to legislate in respect of that business under Entry 45, List I, Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248 (280): AIR 1970 SC 564: (1970) 3 SCR 531. (Constitution of India, Sch. VII, List 1, Entry 45)In ordinary parlance 'banking' is business transactions ...
Bearer
Bearer, a person who carries anything; of a bill of exchange, the person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer. See (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), s. 2.Means a person holding a check, draft, or other negotiable instrument for payment especially marked payable to bearer or having a blank endorsement, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 47....
Scroll
Scroll, a mark which supplies the place of a seal.1. A roll of paper; a list 2. A draft or outline to be completed at a later lime 3. A written mark; esp. a character affixed to a signature in place of seal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1349....
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