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Census

Census, a numbering of the people. It formerly took place in this country once in every 10 years. The first was taken in 1801 under 41 Geo. 3, c. 15; that of 1891 on Sunday, 5th April, 1891, under the Census Acts, 1890 [53 & 54 Vict. c. 61 (England), c. 38 (Scotland), and c. 46 (Ireland)], and that of 1911 under the Census (Great Britain) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 27), and the Census (Ireland) Act, 1910. The Census Act,1920, provides that a census maybe taken, if so directed by an Order in Council, at any time, provided that five years have elapsed since the last census, and provided that a draft order has been laid before Parliament for 20 days. The early Census Acts only got at the numbers, occupations, etc., by a series of questions to overseers, clergymen, etc. The Act of 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 99), was the first to get at the name, etc., of every person in every house. The Act [s. 11 (3)] makes it penal for a person employed in the census to communicate, without lawful aut...

Dishonour

Dishonour, to refuse or neglect to accept or pay when duly presented for payment a bill of exchange or promissory note or draft on a banker. See (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), s. 47....

Money

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...

Money Bill

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...

Neglect

Neglect, means gross, wilful, intentional, culpable or flagrant disregard of duties, Baburao Vishwanath Mathpati v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1996 Bom 227.Neglect, when a money order or a demand draft is sent to the landlord, during the specified period, it cannot be said that the tenant has 'neglected to make payment'. The expression 'neglect' means 'to fail to give due care, attention, or time to. The fail through thoughtlessness or carelessness. To ignore or disregard', Laxmikant Devchand Bhojwani v. Pratap Singh Mohan Singh Pardeshi, (1994) 6 SCC 576 (579). [Bombay Rents, Hotels and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, s. 12(3) (a)]. [s. 27, ill. (a), T.P. Act]...

Project

Project, Construction work does not imply a project, Robert D'Souza v. Executive Engineer, Southern Railway, 1982 SCC (L&S) 124.Means any work taken up under a scheme for the purpose of providing employment to the applica-tions. [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, s. 2(n)]Project, the draft of a proposed treaty or convention....

Redlining

Redlining, means credit discrimination (usually unlawful discrimination) by a financial institution that refuses to make loans on properties in allegedly bad neighbourhoods; the process of creating a new draft of a document showing suggested revisions explicitly alongside the text of an earlier version, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1283....

Rules of Court

Rules of Court, orders regulating the practice of the Courts; or orders made between parties to an action or suit.(1) General rules regulating the practice of the Courts, both of Common Law and Equity, have from time to time been made by the Courts in pursuance of the powers of various Acts of Parliament. See as to the Common Law Courts, which promulgated consecutive Rules without any division into Orders, Day's Common Law Procedure Acts; and as to the Court of Chancery, which promulgated Orders subdivided into Rules, Morgan's Chancery Acts and Orders. The scheme of the Chancery Procedure Acts was that the Orders made thereunder should come into force as soon as made, subject to the power of Parliament to annul them afterwards (see, e.g., Chancery Procedure Act, 1858, s. 12), while that of the Common Law Procedure Acts, was that Rules made thereunder should not come into force until they had lain before Parliament for three months (see 13 & 14 Vict. c. 16, and Common Law Procedure Act,...

Dreadnought

A British battleship completed in 1906 1907 having an armament consisting of ten 12 inch guns mounted in turrets and of twenty four 12 pound quick fire guns for protection against torpedo boats This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber She had a displacement of 17900 tons at load draft and a speed of 21 knots per hour...

Select list

Select list, the Public Service Commission and the Govt. of India were quite right in deciding that the 'fit for trial' lists could not be deemed to be select lists made within the draft rules or the Promotion Regulations, State of Orissa v. B.K. Mohapatra, AIR 1969 SC 1249: (1969) 2 SCC 149: (1970) 1 SCR 255....

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