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Goldsmiths' Notes. Bankers' cash notes (i.e., promissory notes given by a banker to his customers as acknowledgements of the receipt of money) were originally called in London goldsmiths' notes, from the circumstance that all the banking business in England was originally transacted by goldsmiths....
Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General
Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General; the duties of Paymaster-General transferred to Accountant-General: see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 133 et seq.). Under the (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 44), the office of Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery was abolished, and the duties transferred to the Paymaster-General, and by the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Funds, etc.) Act, 1883, there was only one accounting department for the Supreme Court of Judicature. Rules with respect to the Paymaster-General were authorised to be made by the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, s. 24, and, further, s. 30 of that Act, and s. 4 of the Act of 1883, supra, the present practice and procedure being controlled by the (English) Supreme Court Funds Rules, 1927....
Bankers' cash notes
Bankers' cash notes, formerly called goldsmiths' notes, because bankers were originally goldsmiths. Written promises given by bankers to their customers as acknowledgments of having received money for their use, payable to bearer on demand and considered as money, and transferable from one person to another by delivery. Now seldom if ever made, their use having been superseded by the introduction of cheques....
Standard gold bar
Standard gold bar, the definition of the term 'standard gold bar' under s. 2(u) does not contemplate the standard gold bar being cut into pieces. A standard gold bar being of a prescribed weight and purity cannot in many cases be handed over to a certified goldsmith without cutting the same. If a dealer, therefore, has to give a cut piece of standard gold bar to a certain goldsmith the remaining portion of the standard gold bar will be treated as primary gold in his hands, Hukumchand Ratanchand Banthia v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 1453 (1466): (1969) 2 SCC 166. [Gold Control Act, 1968, s. 3(u)]...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
Countermark
A mark or token added to those already existing in order to afford security or proof as an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons that it may not be opened except in the presence of all a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths Company of London to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver a mark added to an ancient coin or medal to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy...
Cruset
A goldsmiths crucible or melting pot...
Folier
Goldsmiths foil...
Goldsmith
An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments etc of gold...
Hall mark
The official stamp of the Goldsmiths Company and other assay offices in the United Kingdom on gold and silver articles attesting their purity...
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