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Appropriation Accounts

Appropriation Accounts, 'appropriation accounts' means accounts which relate the expenditure brought to account during a financial year, to the several items specified in the law made in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution or of...

Allotment rate

of the allotment or price of the allotted quantity which shall be exclusive of all taxes, cesses and duties leviable thereon under the law, Hill Tiller & Co v. Coffee Board, Banglore, AIR 1979 SC 1785 (1790):

Alien

allegiance. The certificate gives the grantee all the rights, powers, and privileges and subjects him to all obligations, duties and liabilities of a natural-born British subject, and gives him the status of such a subject (s. 3).

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Alderman

The (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76), which gave aldermen no special duties of any importance, enacted that they should be in number one-third of the number of the councillors, should

Alcohol

means ethyl alcohol of any strength and purity having the chemical composition C2H5OH. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (39 of 1955) s. 2 (9); (16 of 1955), s. 2 (a)]

Agreements

Air Transport Agreements entered into by India with parties to the Convention. [Foreign Aircraft (Exemption from Taxes and Duties on Fuel and Lubricants), Act (36 of 2002), s. 2(a)]

Affidavit Office in Chancery

Affidavit Office in Chancery, abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, ss. 27 and 29, and its duties transferred to the Clerks of Records and Writs.

Advow, or Avow, or Avouch

the lord of the fee to defend the right of the tenant involved the admission of all the duties implied in feudal tenancy, it was an act jealously looked after by the lords, and advocare, or the

Workmen

capacity; and, conversely, if the main work done is of clerical nature, the mere fact that some supervisory duties are also carried out incidentally or as a small fraction of the work done by him will not

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