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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....
Hereditary revenues
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 ...
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...
Beer duties
Beer duties. See HEREDITARY DUTIES....
Butlerage
Butlerage, an ancient hereditary duty belonging to the Crown, much older than the customs. It was a right of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tuns or more, and by King Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of 2s. for every tun imported by merchant strangers. It was called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler; and also prisage, because it was a taking or purveyance of wine to the king's use, 4 Inst. 30....
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]...
Champion of the King (or Queen)
Champion of the King (or Queen), an ancient officer, whose duty (hereditary in the family of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire) it was to ride armed cap-a-pie into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and by the proclamation of a herald, make a challenge, 'that if any man shall deny the King's title to the crown, he is there ready to defend it in single combat.' The king drank to hi, and sent him a gilt cup covered, full of wine, which the champion drank, retaining the cup for his fee. The ceremony, long discontinued, was revived at the coronation of George IV., but not afterwards....
Chamberiain
Chamberiain [fr. Chambellan, Fr., custos cubiculi, cubicularius, Lat.], a person who has the management or direction of a chamber or chambers. It is variously used in our laws, statutes, and chronicles. Among the most important are (1) The Lord Great Chamberlain, an hereditary officer of the Crown, whose chief duties are performed at a Coronation, and who can appoint a deputy subject to the approval of the king (see CENSOR). (2) The Lord Chamberlain of the Household, an officer appointed by the sovereign, on the nomination of the Prime Minister; he has the oversight of all officers belonging to the king's household, and by the (English) Civil List Act, 1781 (22 Geo. 3, c. 82), s. 13, the care of the royal furniture, pictures and plate. He has also by the Theatres Act, 1843 (see THEATRE), the control of the London Theatres.The places in the House of Lords of 'the great Chamberleyn' and 'the King's Chamberleye' respectively are fixed by 31 Hen. 8, c. 10. (3) The Chamberlain of London kee...
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...
Property
Property, an actionable claim against the tenants is undoubtedly a species of property which is assignable, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252.Comprises every form of tangible property, even intangible, including debts and chooses in action such as unpaid accumulation of wages, pension, cash grants, and constitutionally protected privy purse, See M.M. Pathak v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 802.Decree is to be treated as property, Associated Hotels of India v. Jodha Mal Kuthiala, AIR 1950 Punj 201.Every movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70.In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But elsewhere, as in the sale of goods it may be used as a synonym for ownership and lesser rights in goods, Dictionary of Commercial Law by A.H. Hudson, (1983, Edn.).In Entry 42, List III (Constitution of India) includes the power to legislate for acquisition of an un...
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