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dependency exemption
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Exemptible
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personal exemption deduction
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exempted security
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privilege
privilege [Latin privilegium law affecting a specific person, special right, from privus private + leg- lex law] 1 : a right, license, or exemption from duty or liability granted as a special benefit, advantage, or favor: as a : an exemption from liability where an action is deemed to be justifiable (as in the case of self-defense) or because of the requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action is privileged compare excuse absolute privilege : a privilege that exempts a person from liability esp. for defamation regardless of intent or motive ;specif : a privilege that exempts high public officials (as legislators) from liability for statements made while acting in their official capacity without regard to intent or malice qualified privilege : a privilege esp. in the law of defamation that may be defeated esp. by a showing of actual malice called also conditional privilege b : an exemption from a requirement to disclose information (as fo...
exemption
exemption 1 : the act of exempting or state of being exempt 2 : one that exempts or is exempted: as a : an amount of income exempted from taxation that may be deducted from adjusted gross income under the tax laws see also Internal Revenue Code in the Important Laws section compare deduction, exclusion, tax credit de·pen·den·cy exemption [də-pen-dən-sē-] : an exemption that is allowed for each dependent who qualifies under the tax laws (as sections 151 and 152 of the Internal Revenue Code) NOTE: Under the federal income tax laws, the dependency exemption is allowed for each dependent whose gross income is less than the exemption or who is a child of the taxpayer and is under 19 or a student under 24. per·son·al exemption : an exemption that is allowed for the taxpayer or for the taxpayer and spouse if filing a joint return b : the right created by federal and state laws to exempt specified types of property from a bankruptcy estate [pre...
Immunity
Immunity, exemption, not likely to be affected.Immunity in short is no liability. It is an immunity from the legal power of some other person. The correlative of immunity is disability, Shanti Kumar R Chanji v. House Insurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1974 SC 1719 (1722).Immunity, is -- 'freedom or exemption from penality, burden or duty'. Immunity from prosecution under section 64 mean freedom from punishment during a proceeding instituted and carried on by law, Jasbir Singh v. Vipin Kumar Jaggi, AIR 2001 SC 2734. [See Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (61 of 1985), s. 64]Means any exemption from a duty, liability, or service of process, esp., such an exemption granted to a public official, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 752.Is an exemption or freedom from general obligation, duty, burden or penalty, Raja Ram Pal v. Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, (2007) 3 SCC 184....
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
Special constables
Special constables, persons appointed by justices of the peace to assist in keeping the peace 'on the oath of a credible witness that any tumult, riot, or felony has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended in any parish, township, or place,' if the justices are of opinion that the ordinary constables are insufficient for that purpose. See Special Constables Act, 1831, s. 8 of which imposes a penalty for each refusal to serve when duly called upon, while s. 2 allows a Secretary of State to order persons to be sworn in though exempt by law, and s. 196 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, by which borough justices 'shall appoint in October in every year so many as they may think fit of the inhabitants of the borough, not legally exempt from serving the office of constable, to act as special constables in the borough.' There are also Acts of 1835 and 1838 dealing with the subject.By the (English) Special Constables Act, 1914, as amended by the (English) Special Constable...
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