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Home Dictionary Name: increasinglyIncrease of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these ...
Affidavit of increase
Affidavit of increase. See INCREASE....
Increase, affidavit of
Increase, affidavit of. Affidavit of payment of in-creased costs, produced on taxation. 'Of the costs of the pleadings, and the office fees of the proceed-ings, in the cause down to trial, the record will, in general, sufficiently inform the taxing-master; but the amount of the costs of the trial, including the evidence and the suspending of and any payment to witnesses, counsel, and Court fees, must be supported by affidavit, commonly called the 'Affidavit of Increase' Gray on Costs. See also Annual Practice, 1937, R.S.C. Ord. LXV., r. 16, and note. For forms of affidavit, see Chitty's Forms and Scott on Costs....
Increases safety type
Increases safety type, 'c' means a method of protec-tion by which additional measures are applied so as to give increased security against the possibility of excessive temperatures and of occurrence of arcs and sparks in apparatus which does not produce arcs or sparks in normal service. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (zz)]...
Increasable
Capable of being increased...
Increase
To augment or make greater in bulk quantity extent value or amount etc to add to to extend to lengthen to enhance to aggravate as to increase ones possessions influence...
Increaseful
Full of increase abundant in produce...
Increasement
Increase...
Increaser
One who or that increases...
increasing
becoming greater or larger as increasing prices...
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