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Discount

Discount [fr. dis and conte, Fr.], abatement; commonly a sum of money deducted from a money obligation in consideration of its payment before the stipulated time.Discount means the sum of money or the quantity of grain which a prized subscriber is, under the terms of the chit agreement, required to forego and which is set apart under the said agreement to meet the expenses of running the chit or for distribution among the subscribers or for both. [Chit Funds Act, (40 of 1982), s. 2(g)]Means the difference between the amount received or receivable by the infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector company issuing the bond and the amount payable by such company or fund or public sector company on maturity or redemption of such bond. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 36(1) iii-a Expl.]...


Public trustee

Public trustee. The office of Public Trustee was established by the (English) Public Trustee Act, 1906, which came into force on 1st January, 1908. The Public Trustee is a corporation sole, and may if he thinks fit act in the administration of estates of deceased persons if under one thousand pounds; act as custodian trustee [see that title, and Re Cherry's Trusts, (1914) 1 Ch 83]; act as an ordinary trustee; be appointed to be a judicial trustee (see that title); be appointed administrator of the property of a convict under the Forfeiture Act, 1870; and he may also be appointed an executor and obtain a grant of probate (s. 5). He may be appointed a trustee whether the trust instrument came into operation before or after the Act, and either as an original or a new trustee, or as an additional trustee, in the same cases and manner and by the same persons or Court as if he were a private trustee, with this addition--that he may be appointed sole trustee although the trustees originally a...


Public street

Public street, means any street, road square, court, alley, passage or riding path over which the public have a right of way whether a thoroughfare or not and includes (a) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway; (b) the foot-way attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway; and (c) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, veranda, or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadway up to the boundaries of the adjacent property, whether that property is private property or property belonging to the government. [Madras City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, s. 2(20)]Public street, shall mean any street--(i) heretofore levelled, pared, mettaled, channeled sweered or repaired out of municipal or other public fund; unless before such work was carried out, there was an agreement with the proprietor that the street should not thereby become a public street, or unless such work was done wit...


Zero coupon bond

Zero coupon bond. means a bond:(a) issued by any infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector company on or after the 1st day of June, 2005;(b) in respect of which no payment and benefit is received or receivable before maturity or redemption from infrastructure capital company or infrastructure capital fund or public sector com-pany; and(c) which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 2(48)]....


Treasury Chest Fund

Treasury Chest Fund. A fund originating in the usual balances of certain grants of public money, and which is used for banking and loan purposes by the Commissioners of the Treasury. See 40 & 41 Vict. c. 45...


Tax and fee

Tax and fee, it is true that between a tax and a fee there is no generic difference. Both are compulsory exactions of money by public authorities; but whereas a tax is imposed for public purposes and is not, and need not, be supported by any considera-tion of service rendered in return, a fee is levied essentially for services rendered and as such there is an element of quid pro quo between the person who pays the fee and the public authority which imposes it, Hingir Rampur Coal Co. Ltd. v. State of Orissa, AIR 1961 SC 459 (464): (1961) 2 SCR 537.It is now well recognised that there is not generic difference between a tax in and a fee; both are compulsory exaction of money by public authority, Union of India v. R.C. Jain, AIR 1981 SC 951: (1981) 2 SCC 308: (1981) 2 SCR 854.The chief purpose of a tax is to raise funds for the support of the Government or for a public purpose, while a fee may be charged for the privilege or benefit conferred, or service rendered or to meet the expenses c...


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...


Dividend

Dividend, a share, the part allotted in division; the interest paid on the public funds; the share of profits of a company payable to each shareholder (see Articles 89 to 96 of Table A to Companies Act, 1929, and ss. 120-123 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845); a distributive share of a bankrupt's estate or on the winding-up of the company, of its assets.As to the liability upon a company in respect of a dividend when the warrant for it, having been duly posted, is lost in the post, see Thairlwal v. G.N. Ry., (1910) 2 KB 509l.Dividend means the share of the subscriber in the amount of discount available under the chit agreement for rateable distribution among the subscribers at each instalment of chit. [Chit Funds Act, (40 of 1982), s. 2(h)]Dividend, is a share of profits, whether at a fixed rate or otherwise, allocated to the holders of shares in a company, Henry v. Great Northern Rly. Co., (1857) 1 De G&J 606.'Dividend' in its ordinary connotations means the sum paid to...


Omnium

Omnium, means the total amount or value of the items in a combined fund or stock, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1116.It the aggregate of certain portions of different stocks in the public funds, Com. term...


Appropriate government

Appropriate government, means in relation to public authority which is established, constituted, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly--(i) by the Central Government or the Union Territory administration, the Central Government, (ii) by the State Government, the State Government [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(a)]The Appropriate Government means, in relation to fees or stamp relating to documents presented or to be presented before any officer serving under the Central Government, that Government, and in relation to any other fees or stamps, the State Government. [Court-Fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), s. 1A]Means as respects any matter--(i) enumerated in List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. (ii) relating to any State law enacted under List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (e)]Means in relation to any major port the Central Government, an...



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