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legal construction, determinable on the death of the tenant-in-tail and failure of the issue under the entail. Another example of such an estate is when a tenant-in-tail, not being himself entitled to the immediate remainder or reversion

Broker

now employed in commercial affairs, whose transactions form, or may form, a distinct and independent business. Thus, for example, there are exchange and money-brokers, stock-brokers, ship-brokers, and insurance-brokers, who are respectively employed in buying and selling bills

Costs

rule is that the Crown neither receives nor pays costs, but thee are many statutory exceptions, as, for example, in petitions of right [(English) Petitions of Right Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 34), s. 12]

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Capitalisation

in the total assets of the Company. But profits stands transmuted and transformed into capital. The most common example of capitalisation of profits is by issuance of bonus shares to the shareholders, P.K. Badiani v. C.I.T., AIR

Interest

charges interest which may be described as a kind of rent for the use of the funds. For example, a bank or a lender lending out money on payment of interest. Even a case of wrongful detention

Chemists and druggists

titles unless authorized by the Pharmacy Acts. Medical practitioners, qualified veterinary surgeons, and certain other persons, as, for example, those selling certain scheduled poisonous substances for agricultural purposes, are not within the above-mentioned prohibition imposed upon persons

Communis error facit jus

applied with very great caution.' See Broom's Legal Max., where common recoveries (see RECOVERY) are given as an example of its application, as also is the practice of the courts of adhering to erroneous, because long-established, views

Confession

appears to be so on its face, but which becomes damaging to him at the trial because, for example, its contents can then be shown to be evasive or false or inconsistent with the maker's evidence on

Contracting out of a statute

Griffiths v. Earl of Dudley, (1882) 9 QBD 357. Certain Acts prohibit 'contracting out' or impose limitations. For example, by s. 1 (3) of the Workmens Compensation Act, 1925, contracting out of the Act is allowed upon

Insuper

Insuper, debiting or charging a person in an account, Exchequer term. See an example of its use in (English) Taxes Management Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 19), s. 112.

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Base fee

legal construction, determinable on the death of the tenant-in-tail and failure of the issue under the entail. Another example of such an estate is when a tenant-in-tail, not being himself entitled to the immediate remainder or reversion

Broker

now employed in commercial affairs, whose transactions form, or may form, a distinct and independent business. Thus, for example, there are exchange and money-brokers, stock-brokers, ship-brokers, and insurance-brokers, who are respectively employed in buying and selling bills

Costs

rule is that the Crown neither receives nor pays costs, but thee are many statutory exceptions, as, for example, in petitions of right [(English) Petitions of Right Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 34), s. 12]

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Capitalisation

in the total assets of the Company. But profits stands transmuted and transformed into capital. The most common example of capitalisation of profits is by issuance of bonus shares to the shareholders, P.K. Badiani v. C.I.T., AIR

Interest

charges interest which may be described as a kind of rent for the use of the funds. For example, a bank or a lender lending out money on payment of interest. Even a case of wrongful detention

Chemists and druggists

titles unless authorized by the Pharmacy Acts. Medical practitioners, qualified veterinary surgeons, and certain other persons, as, for example, those selling certain scheduled poisonous substances for agricultural purposes, are not within the above-mentioned prohibition imposed upon persons

Communis error facit jus

applied with very great caution.' See Broom's Legal Max., where common recoveries (see RECOVERY) are given as an example of its application, as also is the practice of the courts of adhering to erroneous, because long-established, views

Confession

appears to be so on its face, but which becomes damaging to him at the trial because, for example, its contents can then be shown to be evasive or false or inconsistent with the maker's evidence on

Contracting out of a statute

Griffiths v. Earl of Dudley, (1882) 9 QBD 357. Certain Acts prohibit 'contracting out' or impose limitations. For example, by s. 1 (3) of the Workmens Compensation Act, 1925, contracting out of the Act is allowed upon

Insuper

Insuper, debiting or charging a person in an account, Exchequer term. See an example of its use in (English) Taxes Management Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 19), s. 112.

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