Friendly Societies - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: friendly societies Page: 3Stamp duties
Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
Consolidation Acts (English)
Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...
Contracting out of a statute
Contracting out of a statute. In accordance with the maxim, Quilibet potest [or Cuilibet licet] renunciare juri pro se introducto, persons for whose benefit a statute has been passed may contract with others in such a manner as to deprive themselves of the benefit of the statute, as, for instance, the benefit of the Employers Liability Act, 1880; see 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 the certificate of the Registrar of Friendly Societies that a proposed scheme of compensation is not less favourable to the workmen than the scheme of compensation provided by the Act. See also s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923; and s. 146 (12) of the (English) Law of Property Act,1925, which provides for relief against the forfeiture of a lease; and also ss. 95 and 96 as to mortgages which exclude contracting out, ...
Corporation Property Duty
Corporation Property Duty. A 5 per cent. duty on income in lieu of death duties is imposed on cor-porations and bodies not incorporated, including fellowships, trustees etc., by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 51), ss. 11-20. The exceptions include property of the Crown, Local Authorities, religious, charitable, educational bodies, friendly societies, and the capital of a body corporate or incorporate established for any trade or business, or of a body whose capital stock is so divided as to be liable to be charged for legacy or succession duties....
Public charity
Public charity, means something for the charitable benefit of a large and important body of poor persons. As a rule, a friendly society is not a public charity, Clark (in re:), 1 Ch D 497; Cullack v. Edwards, (1896) 2 Ch 679; Braithwaite v. Attorney-General, (1909) 1 Ch 410....
Broadbrim
A hat with a very broad brim like those worn by men of the society of Friends...
Company
The state of being a companion or companions the act of accompanying fellowship companionship society friendly intercourse...
Hicksite
A member or follower of the ldquoliberalrdquo party headed by Elias Hicks which because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States in 1827...
Quakeress
A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends...
Approval and permission
Approval and permission, Ordinarily, the difference between approval and permission is that in the first case the action holds good until it is disapproved, while in the other case it does not become effective until permission is obtained. But permission subsequently granted may validate the previous Act, Uttar Pradesh Avas Evam Vikas Parishad v. Friendly Corp. Housing Society Ltd., (1995) Supp (3) SCC 456 (458): AIR 1996 SC 114 (115). [U.P. Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973, s. 59 (1) (a) Exception(iii)]...
- << Prev.
- Next >>