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Actual cost

Actual cost, The accepted accountancy rule for determining the cost of fixed assets is to include all expenditure necessary to bring such assets into existence and to put them in

Bill of Exchange

person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,

Contingent legacy

1925, which provides that incases where more than 21 years of age of an unborn donee has been fixed for vesting, the gift is to take effect as if 21 years had been fixed. See also MAINTENANCE

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Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)

theleave of the Courtof Criminal Appeal against the sentence passed on his conviction, unless the sentence is one fixed by law. A parent or guardian may appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal under s. 3 against

Deposit account

the depositor, not to be drawn upon by cheques, and usually not to be withdrawn except after a fixed notice, but bearing interest either at some fixed rate, or very often at 1 per cent. less than

Exchange

the currency of the other, supposing the currencies of both to be of the precise weight and purity fixed by their respective mints. It now may be assumed to mean the hypothetical equivalent in terms of the

Funds, public

were continued, or the taxes again mortgaged for fresh ones. At length the practice of borrowing for a fixed period, or, as it is called, upon terminable annuities, was abandoned, and loans made upon interminable annuities, or

Jury

Act was a matter in the discretion of a court or judge. Qualification.--The property qualification of jurors is fixed by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 1, for common jurors, at

Sky Sign

the purpose of any advertisement or announcement; (b) Any sign or any board, frame, or other contrivance securely fixed to or on the top of the wall or parapet of any building, or on the cornice or

Land-tax

reached or approached in more than one agricultural county, such as Norfolk, Essex, Lincolnshire, and Suffolk. The sum fixed by the (English) Land Tax Act, 1797 (38 Geo. 3, c. 5), to be paid for the land-tax

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