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Office

the person who filled it, which went on and was filled in succession by successive holders, McMillan v. Guest, 1942 AC 561: (1942) 1 All ER 606 HL. See also Rabindra Kumar Nayak v. Collector, (1999) 2

Dancing hall

dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life.

Hospitable

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward kind to strangers and guests characterized by hospitality

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Undertake

for the care of. To engage to look after or attend to, as to undertake a patient or guest. To endeavour to perform or try; to promise, engage, agree or assume an obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th

Twanight geste

Twanight geste, a guest at an inn a second night. See THIRD-NIGHT-AWN-HINDE.

Third-night-awn-hinde

offence. The first night, for-man-night, or uncuth (unknown), he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, twa-night, a guest; and the third night, an agen-hinde, a domestic. Bract. 1.3.

Sorner

Sorner, an unwelcome guest in Scotland whose visits were restricted by Scots Act of Parliament. Compare COSHERING, and see Statute Law Revision

Commercial and domestic

place of user. The New Delhi Municipal Council is entitled to charge for use of electricity in a guest house at the rate applicable to 'commercial' use, New Delhi Municipal Council v. Sohan Lal Sachdev, (2000) 2

Premises and building

the purpose of business or profession and the expression resi-dential accommodation including any accommoda-tion in the nature of Guest house, Britina Industries Ltd. v. C.I.T., (2006) 1 SCC 646. [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 37(3)(4)(5)]

Post-dated cheque

payable on demand and so cannot be a cheque but an instrument of a different kind, Chalmers & Guest on Bills of Exchange, Cheques and Promissory Notes, 15th Edn., p. 74.

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