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Honour, a seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount; also those dignities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles which flow from the Crown, the fountain of honour, and see the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 72).To honour a bill of exchange or cheque (of the drawee, etc.); to pay....
Acceptor for honour
Acceptor for honour, When the bill of exchange has been noted or protested for non-acceptance or for better security, and any person accepts it supra protest for honour of the drawer or of any one of the indorsers, such person is called an 'acceptor for honour'. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 26 of 1881, s. 7)...
Honourable
Honourable, a title of courtesy given to the children of earls (except the eldest son in cases where the father has a second title), viscounts and barons; Maids of Honour to the Queen; Justices of the High Court; Lords of Session, Scotland; members of certain colonial Governments. In the case of the son of a peer to whom this title is applied, his wife or widow is also entitled to use it. As to Right Honourable, see PRIVY COUNCIL....
Honour Courts
Honour Courts, tribunals held within honours or seigniories...
Honour, Court of
Honour, Court of, a branch of the Court of Chivalry. See CHIVALRY, COURT OF....
Honour, Judge, His
Honour, Judge, His, is the official designation of a county Court judge...
Office of honour
Office of honour, means an uncompensated public position of considerable dignity and importance to which public trust or interests are confided, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1113....
Titles of Honour
Titles of Honour, are a species of incorporeal hereditament: see Co. Litt. 20 a, and Mr. Hargrave's note (3); Earl Ferrers' Case, 2 Eden, App., p. 373. Accordingly a baronetcy was held to be 'land' within the meaning of the Settled Land Act, 1882, so that heirlooms annexed to the baronetcy could be sold with the leave of the Court, Re Rivett-Carnac, (1885) 30 Ch D 136, Chitty, J....
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
Banker
Banker, one who receives money to be drawn out again as the owner has occasion for it, the customer being lender, and the banker borrower, with the superadded obligation of honouring the customer's cheques up to the amount of the money received and still in the banker's hands.A customer's money may become irrecoverable if six years have elapsed without payment by the banker of principal or interest after demand. The relation of banker and customer is merely that of debtor and creditor, with a superadded obligation on the banker to honour the customer's cheques, so that the Limitations Act, 1623, (21 Jac. 1, c. 16), runs against the customer. See UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.A cheque is not an assignment to the payee of the customer's balance, so that if a customer having a balance of 99l. give a cheque for 100l., the banker is legally justified in dishonouring it by refusing payment altogether, Schroeder v. Central Bank of London, (1876) 34 LT 735. If a customer overdraws his account, this amoun...
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