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Hereditary revenues. Crown Lands, escheats (see that title), and certain small branches, such as Post Office Profits, enumerated in 1 Anne, c. 1. The Civil List Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5), in substitution for the Civil List Act, 1901, directed (in effect) that the hereditary revenues which were directed by s. 2 of the Civil List Act, 1837, to be made part of the Consolidated Fund, with the addition of the Osborne Estate under the Osborne Estate Act, 1902, were during that reign and for six months afterwards to be 'paid into the Exchequer, and made part of the Consolidated Fund.'Sect. 2 of the Act of 1837 directed the produce of all the heritous rates, duties, payments, and revenues in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, and also the small branches of the hereditary revenues and the produce of the hereditary casual revenues arising from any droits of Admiralty or droits of the Crown, and from the surplus revenues of Gibraltar, or any other possession of her Majesty Queen ...
hereditary
hereditary [Latin hereditarius, from hereditas inheritance, from hered- heres heir] 1 : received or passing by inheritance or required to pass by inheritance [ shares] 2 : having ownership or possession through inheritance [a chief] ...
Hereditary
Descended or capable of descending from an ancestor to an heir at law received or passing by inheritance or that must pass by inheritance as an hereditary estate or crown...
Hereditary duties
Hereditary duties of 1s. 3d. per barrel of beer or ale above 6s. a barrel, 4d. per barrel under 6s., and 15d. for every hogshead of sider (sic) and perry, directed in 1660 by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, to be paid to the king, his heirs and successors for ever, in recompense for the profits of the Court of Wards and other royal privileges abolished by that Act. Surrendered for their lifetimes by succeeding sovereigns (25 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 15). See CIVIL LIST....
Watandar
Watandar, the definition of 'watandar' in s. 4 of the Bombay Hereditary Offices Act which is in two parts-first setting out what 'watandar' means and the other stating what is included in it- should be regarded as constituting one whole definition, and it would be wrong to regard the meaning portion as primary and the inclusive part as illustrative. The Watan Act contemplated two classes of persons. One is a larger class of persons belonging to the watan families having a hereditary interest in the watan property as such and the other a smaller class of persons who were appointed as representative watandars and who were liable for the performance of duties connected with the office of such watandars. It would not be correct to limit the word 'watandar' only to his narrow class of persons who could claim to have a hereditary interest both in the watan property and in the hereditary office. Watan property had always been treated as property belonging to the family and all persons belongi...
Civil list
Civil list, an annual sum granted by Parliament at the commencement of each reign, for the expenses of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state; it is the provision made for the Crown out of the taxes, in lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the assignment of that patrimony to the public use. This arrangement has prevailed from the time of the Revolution downwards, though the amount fixed for the civil list has been subject in different reigns to considerable variation. At the commencement of her reign a civil list was settled by the (English) Civil List Act, 1837 (1 Vict. c. 2), upon her late Majesty Queen Victoria for life, to the amount of 3,85,000l. was assigned for her Majesty's privy purse; in return for which grant it was provided that the hereditary revenues of the Crown (with the exception of the hereditary duties of excise on beer, ale, and cider, which were to be discontinued during the reign, and as to...
Earl
Earl [fr. eorl, Sax.; eoryl, Erse; comes, Lat.], a title of nobility, formerly the highest in England, now the third, ranking between a marquis and a viscount, and corresponding with the French Comte and the German Graf. The title originated with the Saxons, and is the most ancient of the English peerage. William the Conqueror first made it hereditary. An earl has an hereditary seat in the House of Lords. In official instruments he is called by the sovereign 'trusty and well-beloved cousin,' an appellation as ancient as the reign of Henry IV., who was, as a fact, related to the greater part of the nobles (see Shakespeare's Henry IV., Second Part, Act 2, sc. 2), and took this public notice of it as a means of popularity.A title of nobility, formerly the highest in England but now the third highest ranking between marquis and a viscount, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 525.Earl, is the third degree of peerage in order of precedence, but the first in antiquity. (Cruise on Dignities (...
Janmam
Janmam, The exclusive right to, and hereditary possession of the soil in Malabar is denoted by the term jenmam which means birthright and the holder thereof is known as jenmi, jenmakaran or mutalalan. 'Janmam' thus, maybe described as a hereditary proprietorship. It is the freehold interesting the property in Kerala. A janmam interest may, therefore, be described as proprietary interest of a landlord in lands, and such a Janmam right is described as 'estate' in the Constitution, Balmadies Plantations Ltd. v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1972 SC 2240 (2244): (1972) 3 SCC 133: (1973) 1 SCR 258. [Constitution of India, Art. 31A (2)(a)(i)]...
Khoti land
Khoti land, Khotis in the district of Kolaba are hereditary farmers of land revenue and are entitled to hold villages as khotis on their entering every year into the customary kabulayat. According to Molesworth's Dictionary 'khot' means: 'a renter of village, a farmer of land or revenue, a farmer of the customs, a contractor or monopolist; an hereditary officer whose duty it is to collect the revenue of the village for Government, also an officer appointed for this office; a tribe of Brahmins in the Southern Konkan', Shyam Sunder Tikam Shet v. State of Maharashtra, (1969) 2 SCC 217: AIR 1970 SC 381 (383). [Bombay Khoti Abolition Act, 1949 (6 of 1950), ss. 10 and 12]...
Manbrit and Brit Jijmani
Manbrit and Brit Jijmani, a 'manbrit' essentially differs from a 'brit jijmani'. In the 'manbrit' the relation between 'jijmani' and purohit is a temporary one and there is no fixity or hereditary character about it. But in 'brit jijmani' especially those relating to Hindu pilgrimages, though it is open to parties to break away the old connections and establish a new one by custom and usage of the country as a matter of practice, and as a general rule, the connection between purohit and jijmani, is both permanent and hereditary, Sarda Kunwar v. Gajanand, 1942 All 320....
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