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Active service. 'on active service,' as applied to a person subject to military law, is defined by the (English) Army Act (44 & 45 Vict. C. 58) as meaning 'whenever he is attached to or forms part of a force which is engaged in operations against the enemy or is engaged in military operations in a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy or is in military occupation of any foreign country.'As applied to a person subject to this Act, means the time during which such person--(a) in attached to, or forms part of, a force which is engaged in operations against an enemy, or (b) is engaged in air force operations in, or is on the line of march to, a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy; or (c) is attached to, or forms part of, a force which is in military occupation of any foreign country. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (i)] See also (5 of 1941), s. 2(a); (46 of 1950), s. 3(a)...
Usance
Usance [Fr.], the time which it is the usage of the countries, between which bills are drawn, to appoint for payment of them. If a foreign bill be drawn payable at sight, or at a certain period after sight, the acceptor will be liable to pay according to the course of exchange at the time of acceptance, unless the rawr express that it is payable according to the course of exchange at the time it was drawn, en especes de ce jour. See Byles on Bills. As to the usance between London and the various foreign countries, see ibid.The time allowed for payment of foreign bill of exchange, sometimes set by custom but now usu. by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1540....
alien
alien [Latin alienus not one's own, foreign] : relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government n : a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country [illegal s] [an admitted to the United States for permanent residence "U.S. Code"] vt : alienate ...
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...
Re-exchange
Re-exchange is 'the difference in the value of a bill occasioned by its being dishonoured in a foreign country in which it was payable. The existence and amount of it depend on the rate of exchange between the two countries. The theory of the transaction is this: a merchant in London endorses a bill for a certain number of Austrian florins, payable at a future date in Vienna. The holder is entitled to receive in Vienna, on the day of the maturity of the bill, a certain number of Austrian florins. Suppose the bill to be dishonoured. The holder is now, by the custom of merchants, entitled to immediate and specific redress by his own act in this way: he is entitled, being in Vienna, then and there to raise the exact number of Austrian florins by drawing and negotiating a cross-bill, payable at sight on his endorser in London, for as much English money as will purchase in Vienna the exact number of Austrian florins at the rate of exchange on the day of dishonour; and to include in the amou...
Foreign documents
Foreign documents. The admissibility in evidence in the United Kingdom of entries contained in public registers in other countries is governed by the Evidence (Foreign Dominions and Colonial) Documents Act, 1923 (24 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 4). Orders in Council may be made under s. 1 of the Act recognizing public registers in other countries (which expression includes any British Colony or Protectorate) if desirable in the interests of reciprocity....
Colony
Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
Foreign hospitality
Foreign hospitality, means any offer, not being a purely casual one, made by a foreign source for providing a person with the costs of travel to any foreign country or territory or with free board, lodging, transport or medical treatment. [Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (49 of 1976), s. 2 (1) (d)]...
Citizen of India
Citizen of India, when once a person is admitted or held to be a citizen of India, unless there is a decision of the Central Government under s. 9(2) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 that he has acquired the citizenship of a foreign country, he should be presumed to be an Indian citizen. S. 9 of the Citizenship Act, 1955 is a complete code as regards the termination of Indian citizenship on the acquisition of the citizenship of a foreign country, Bhagwati Prasad Dixit 'Ghorewala' v. Rajeev Ghandhi (1986) 2 SCR 823: (1986) 4 SCC 78: AIR 1986 SC 1534 (1539). [Citizenship Act, 1955, s. 9(2)]...
International Commercial Arbitration
International Commercial Arbitration, the definition of 'international commercial arbitration' makes no distinction between international commercial arbitrations which take place in India or internalcommercial arbitrations which take place outside India, AIR 2002 SC 1432 (1439): (2002) 4 SCC 105. [Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 2(f)]International commercial arbitration means an arbitration relating to disputes arising out of legal relationships, whether contractual or not, con-sidered as commercial under the law in force in India and where at least one of the parties is-(i) an individual who is a national of, or habitually resident in, any country other than India; or(ii) a body corporate which is incorporated in any country other than India; or(iii) a company or an association or a body of individuals whose central management and control is exercised in any country other than India; or(iv) the Government of a foreign country. [Arbitra-tion Act, 1996 (26 of 1996), s. 2(1) (...
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