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emolument : a return arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites [the President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation…and he shall not receive within that period any other "U.S. Constitution art. II"] ...
Emoluments
Emoluments, means pay, leave salary or subsistence grant if admissible and any remuneration of the nature of pay received in respect of deputation. [Employees' State Insurance Corporation (General Provident Fund) Rules, 1995, R. 2 (1) (d)]Any advantage, profit, or gain received as a result of one's employment or one's holding of office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 542....
Salary
Salary, a recompense or consideration generally periodically made to a person for his service in another person's business; also wages, stipend, or annual allowance. See RECEIPT.An agreed compensation for services esp. pro-fessional or some professional services usu. paid at regular intervals on yearly basis, as distinguished from an hourly basis, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1337.The ancients derive the word from sal, salt (Plin. H.N. xxxi. 42)--the most necessary thing to support human life being thus mentioned as a representative of all others.The word 'salary' as used in clause (h) of s. 60 is meant to be confined to the emoluments of labourers and domestic servants. It makes a distinction between salary and the wages of labourers and domestic servants, Raghunandan Sahai v. Jaigobind Sahay, AIR 1942 Pat 194.The word 'salary' as used in proviso (1) to s. 60, Civil Procedure Code must be construed as meaning the total monthly emoluments to which a public servant is entitled, ...
Commission, the promoter's
Commission, the promoter's, means the amount by which the aggregate total stakes in all the competitions exceeds the sum of (1) the aggregate prize in the competitions; (2) the aggregate pool betting duty payable in respect of the competitions; and (3) the expenses of the promoter actually incurred by him in the conduct of the competitions, excluding any expenses properly chargeable to capital and any interest on borrowed money, and in particular, excluding any provision for the depreciation of building or equipment, any emoluments payable to the promoter, or, if the promoter is a partnership, to any of the partners, or, if the promoter is a body corporate, to any of the directors, and in any case any emoluments payable to any person whose emoluments depends to any extent on the profits of the promoter, Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963, s. 4(3), Sch. 2, para 23(2) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 116, p. 84....
Pay and pay scale
Pay and pay scale, are conceptually different connotations. Pay is essentially a consideration for the services rendered by an employee and is the remuneration which is payable to him. Remuneration is the recurring payment for services rendered during the tenure of employment. Pay and salary are necessarily not interchangeable concepts. Their meanings vary depending upon the provision providing for them. Pay means the amount drawn monthly by a Government servant as - (i) the pay, other than special pay or pay granted in view of his personal qualifications, which has been sanctioned for a post held by him substantively or in an officiating capacity, or to which he is entitled by reasons of his position is a cadre, and (ii) overseas pay, special pay and personal pay, and (iii) any other emoluments which may be specially classed as pay by the president.' A pay scale has different stages starting with initial pay and ending with ceiling pay. Each stage in the scale is commonly referred to ...
Reduction in rank
Reduction in rank, a civil servant is reduced in rank only after an inquiry is held; he is informed of the charges against him in such inquiry and he is given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges. [Constitution of India, Art. 311(2)]Reduction in rank, if a civil servant has a right to a particular rank, then the very reduction from that rank will operate as a penalty, for he will then lose the emoluments and privileges of that rank. If, however, he has no right to the particular rank, his reduction from an officiating higher rank to his substantive lower rank will not ordinarily be a punishment (AIR 1958 SC 36 referred); Shitla Sahai Srivastava v. North Eastern Railways, AIR 1966 SC 1197 (1199): (1966) 3 SCR 61.The reduction in rank contemplated by the Article 311 of Constitution of India, 1950 is reduction as a punishment and where no punishment is involved the Article had no application. Any variation in the order of seniority to the prejudice of an off...
Canonry
A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues the dignity or emoluments of a canon...
Emolument
The profit arising from office employment or labor gain compensation advantage perquisites fees or salary...
Emolumental
Pertaining to an emolument profitable...
Profit
Acquisition beyond expenditure excess of value received for producing keeping or selling over cost hence pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation emolument as a profit on the sale of goods...
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