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Giambeux

Greaves armor for the legs...


Grave

To clean as a vessels bottom of barnacles grass etc and pay it over with pitch so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose...


Graves

The sediment of melted tallow Same as Greaves...


Greave

A grove...


Greaves

The sediment of melted tallow It is made into cakes for dogs food In Scotland it is called cracklings...


Jambes

In the Middle Ages armor for the legs below the knees usually having front and back pieces called also greaves...


VerbarOchrea

A greave or legging...


Annuity

Annuity, in order to constitute an annuity, the payment to be made periodically should be a fixed or predetermined one, and it should not be liable to any variation depending upon or on any ground relating to the general income of the fund or estate which is charged for such payment, CWT v. P. K. Banerjee, (1981) 1 SCC 63 (75): AIR 1981 SC 401. [Wealth-Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(e)(1)(iv)]It is a right to receive a specified sum and not an aliquot share in the income arising from any fund or property. Ordinarily an annuity is a money payment of a fixed sum annually made and is a charge personally on the grantor, CWT v. Arundhati Balkrishna, (1970) 1 SCC 561 (565): AIR 1971 SC 915. [Wealth Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(e)(iv)]An annuity is a fixed sum payable annually either in perpetuity or for any less period. When charged upon land either freehold or leasehold both, exclusively of purely personal estate, it is strictly a rent charge; see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c....


Outgoing

Outgoing. 1. Payments which have to be made out of the gross returns of a property or business before its net proceeds can reach the owner, as a drainage rate on land, or the salaries of clerks in the management of a business.2. A most comprehensive general expression in a lessee's covenant to pay taxes and other charges, which no prudent lessee should accept; as to the meaning of the word, see Stockdale v. Ascerberg, (1904) 1 KB 447; Greaves v. Whitmarsh, (1906) 2 KB 340; also Henman v. Berliner, (1918) 2 KB 236,where the Court found ground for restricting the full meaning of the term. As to head landlord's indemnity, Dependable Upholstery Ltd. v. Brasted, (1932)1 KB 291. Under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, s. 16 (making up a road, etc.), Lowther v. Clifford, (1927) 1KB 130 (yearly tenant)....


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