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Due amounts due, an amount 'due' normally refers to an amount which the creditor has a right to recover. Wharton in Law Lexicon defines 'due' as anything owing; that which one contracts to pay another. 'Amounts due' under, s. 71 are those amounts which the creditor could have recovered had he filed a suit, State of Kerala v. V.R. Kalliyanikibty, (1999) 3 SCC 657 (661). [Kerala Revenue Recovery Act, 1968, ss. 71, 702, 69(2)...
Recovery of amount due
Recovery of amount due, means legally recoverable, John v. District Collector, 1989 2 Ker LT 831....
procedural due process
procedural due process : due process ...
substantive due process
substantive due process : due process ...
lien
lien [Anglo-French, bond, obligation, literally, tie, band, from Old French, from Latin ligamen, from ligare to bind] : a charge or encumbrance upon property for the satisfaction of a debt or other duty that is created by agreement of the parties or esp. by operation of law ;specif : a security interest created esp. by a mortgage assessment lien : a lien that is on property benefiting from an improvement made by a municipality and that secures payment of the taxes assessed to pay for the improvement attachment lien : a lien acquired on property by a creditor upon levy of an attachment car·ri·er's lien : a lien against freight conferring on the carrier the right to retain the property until the amount due is paid charging lien : a lien attaching to a judgment or recovery awarded to a plaintiff and securing payment of the plaintiff's attorney's fees and expenses called also special lien choate lien : a lien that requires no further action to be made enforceable and th...
Entire amount of rent due
Entire amount of rent due, The words 'entire amount of rent due' would include rent which has become time-barred, Khadi Gram Udyog Trust v. Ram Chandraji Virajman Mandir, (1978) 1 SCC 44: AIR 1978 SC 287: (1978) 2 SCR 249....
Full amount payable by the foreign buyer in resect of the goods
Full amount payable by the foreign buyer in resect of the goods, the expression 'the full amount payable by the foreign buyer in respect of the goods' occurring in clause (b) would mean merely the total amount which is due from the foreign buyer in respect of the goods actually exported; and what would be due from a foreign buyer has to be merely the price which he has agreed to pay and not any fanciful, unreal or inflated price which the exporter may choose to falsely incorporate in the invoice with any ulterior motives. Director, Enforce-ment Directorate v. Krishnaswamy, AIR 1979 SC 1969 (1971). [Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, s. 12(2)]...
Distribution
Distribution, 'distribution' includes distribution by way of samples whether free or otherwise. [Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, (60 of 1986), s. 2(b)]Distribution includes distribution by way of samples, whether free or otherwise. [Cigarette and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertise-ment and Regulation of Trade and Commence, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), s. 3(c)]The Act of dealing out to others; dispensation.The dictionary meaning of the expression 'distribu-tion' is 'to give each a share, to give to several persons'. The expression 'distribution' connotes something actual and not notional. It can be physical; it can also be constructive. One may distribute amounts between different shareholders either by crediting the amount due to each one of them in their respective accounts or by actually paying to each one of them the amount due to him. The only difference between the expression 'paid' and the expression, 'distri...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
Tax due
Tax due, means the amount of tax which remains unpaid after the expiry of the date specified in the notice of demand issued in this behalf under this Act or the rules made thereunder. [West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(46)]Tax due, refers to an ascertained liability. However the meaning of the Words 'taxes due' will ultimately depend upon the context in which these words are used, Harshad Shantilal Mehta v. Custodian, AIR 1998 SC 2291. [See also Special Court (Trial of Offences Relating to Transactions in Securities) Act, 1992, s. 11(2)(a)]Tax due, usually refers to an ascertained liability, Harshad Shantilal Mehta v. Custodian, (1998) 5 SCC 1....
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