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Railway Station

Railway Station, means outer wall of the main building of a station, conceivably not fronting any street falls within railway station, Corpn. of Madras v. Oriental Mercantile Company Ltd., Madras, (1967) ILR 3 Mad 818: (1966) 2 Mad LJ 440: (1966) 79 Mad LW 671...


Ticket

Ticket, as a printed card or a piece of paper that gives a person a specific rights, as to attend a theatre, ride on a train, claim or purchase, etc. Webster's Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 25A.For a railway passenger not to produce a railway ticket on request by an officer or servant of a railway company, or to pay his fare from the place when he started, or to give the officer or servant his name and address, is summarily punishable by fine up to 40s. See FARE.A certificate indicating that the person to whom it is issued, or holder, is entitled to some right or privilege....


Metro railway administration

Metro railway administration, in relation to-(i) a Government metro railway means the General Manger of that railway; or (ii) a non-Government metro railway means the person who is the owner or lessee of that metro railway or the person working that metro railway under an arrangement with the owner or lessee of that metro railway. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1) (j)]...


Railway Rates Tribunal

Railway Rates Tribunal. A tribunal established by the (English) Railways Act, 1921, ss. 20 et seq., which is composed, either with or without other assistance, of one person experienced in commercial affairs, one experienced in railway business, and the president, who shall be an experienced 'lawyer.' The jurisdiction of the tribunal is dealt with by ss. 27 and 28, which transfer to it some of the powers exercised by the Railway and Canal Commission in addition to granting new powers [(English) Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 53)], Part II., ss. 37 et seq. Its authority does not extend to Ireland. See also (English) Railway Rates Tribunal Rules, 1922, No. 906....


Business names

Business names. The (English) Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, necessitates the registration of every firm or person carrying on business in the United Kingdom unless carried on in their true names. 'Business' includes profession. The Act imposes penalties for any period of non-registration or fraud when furnishing any statement required by the Act. S. 8 provides that any firm or person, in default of registration, shall be unable to enforce contracts made in relation to the business in respect of which the default has been made. Provisions are, however, made for obtaining relief in certain cases. Firms and persons obliged to register under the Act must set out in trade catalogues, business letters, etc., the true name or names of the person or persons trading under the business name. The fees payable on registration have been increased by s. 5 of the (English) Fees Increase Act, 1923. See also the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 145, which applies and extends the provisions...


Financial Institution

Financial Institution, means a banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) applies (including any bank or banking institution referred to in s. 51 of that Act); or any other financial institution which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80E(3)(b)]Means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956;(ii) such other institution as the Central Government may, having regard to its business activity and the area of its operation in India by notification, specify. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2 (h)]Financial institution means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);(ii) any institution specified by the Central Govern-ment under sub-clause (ii) of clause (h) of s. 2 of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Fina...


Shares in public undertakings

Shares in public undertakings. Where the property is vested by charter or Act of Parliament in a body corporate, the shares of the individual corporators in the concern itself are personal, not real, estate; for such shares are merely the rights which each individual possesses as a partner to a share in the surplus profit derived from the employment of the capital, which is a mixed fund, consisting in part of personal chattels, as well as lands and fixtures. Shares in all companies which are within the Companies Acts (see the Companies Act, 1929, s. 62), OR THE Companies Clauses Act, 1845, are personal property; and in many cases of companies incorporated by special Act the shares have been expressly declared to be personal property. Before 1926 the question whether shares in other under-takings were real or personal property turned upon the nature of the shares-that is, whether the holder could call for a specific part of the land itself or only a share of the profits. See now UNDIVID...


Liquidator

Liquidator. A person appointed to conduct the winding-up of a company under the (English) Companies Act, 1929. Liquidators are of three kinds:--(1) Appointed by the court in a winding-up by the Court. pending appointment the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy is to act as Official Receiver and Liquidator in the winding-up (s. 185). By s. 186, in England, liquidators other than the Official Receiver must provide security to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade. His duties comprise the collection of the company's property, and this property or any part of it may vest in him on his application. He may bring or defend actions relating to that property in his own official name (s. 190). Powers which he may exercise subject to the sanction of the court or a Committee of Inspection are setout in s. 191(1); sub-s. (2) of that section gives a list of powers for which such sanction is not required. The duties of a liquidator are to collect, administer, and distribute the assets, having regard to ...


Manager

Manager, a superintendent, a conductor, or director. As to the appointment of a manager of a business at the instance of a mortgagee, see Coote on Mortgages. As to managers appointed by debenture holders, see (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 86, and Part VI. Of that Act relating to receivers and managers. As to special manager.[See (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 10; (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 209]Manager means a person who, subject to the control and direction of the directors, has the management of the whole affairs of a company, and includes a director or any other person occupying the position of a manager by whatever name called and whether under a contract or service or not. It will be clear that to satisfy the aforesaid definition a person, which could include a firm, body corporate or an association of persons, apart from being in management of the whole affairs of a company had to be 'subject to the control and direction of the directors'. This definition has underg...


Member, shareholder and holder of a share

Member, shareholder and holder of a share, the scheme of the Indian Companies Act, 1913, shows that the words 'member', 'shareholder' and 'holder of a share' have been used interchangeably. The words 'holder of a share' are really equal to the word 'shareholder', and the expression 'holder of a share' denotes, in so far as the company is concerned, only a person who, as shareholder, has his name entered on the register of members, Howrah Trading Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1959 SC 775: (1959) Supp 2 SCR 448....



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