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innocent purchaser

innocent purchaser : one who purchases property for consideration in good faith and without knowledge of facts that would lead to the suspicion that the seller does not have good title ...


Restitution of stolen goods

Restitution of stolen goods. By the Common Law there was no restitution of goods upon an indictment, because it is at the suit of the Crown only; therefore the party was enforced to bring an appeal of robbery in order to have his goods again; but a writ of restitution was authorized to be granted by 21 Hen. 8, c. 11, and it became the practice of the court, upon the conviction of a felon, to order, without any writ, immediate restitution of such goods as were brought into Court to be made to the several prosecutors. The Larceny Act, 1916, s. 45, gives power to the court to award from time to time writs of restitution for stolen property, or to order the restitution thereof in a summary manner, upon a conviction of the guilty party. This restitution reaches the stolen goods (unless they be negotiable instruments) notwithstanding that the guilty party may have sold them for value to an innocent purchaser [see s. 24 (1), Sale of Goods Act, 1893], but see MARKET OVERT; a sum not exceeding ...


innocent spouse

innocent spouse : a spouse who may be relieved of liability for taxes on an amount of income that the other spouse failed to include on a joint return filed with the Internal Revenue Service NOTE: In order to be relieved of tax liability, the innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse omitted the amount of income, that he or she did not know and had no reason to know that the income had been omitted, and that it is unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable. ...


Innocent spouse

Innocent spouse, means a spouse who may be relived of liability for taxes on income that the other spouse did not include on a joint tax return. The innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse did not know and had no reason to know of the omission, and that it would be unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 793....


innocent

innocent : characterized by innocence ...


Innocent conveyances

Innocent conveyances, a covenant to stand seized; a bargain and sale; and release; so called because, since they convey the actual possession by construction of law only, they do not confer a larger estate in property than the person conveying possesses, and therefore, if a greater interest be conveyed by these deeds than a person has, they are only void, pro tanto, for the excess. But a feoffment of such larger estate was a tortious conveyance, and therefore, under such circumstances, would have been void altogether, and produced a forfeiture. But by the 4th section of the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), a feoffment made after October 1st, 1845, shall not have any tortuous operation. It is, therefore, an innocent conveyance....


Turnover of purchases

Turnover of purchases, in relation to any period, means:(a) in the case of the occupier of a jute-mill, the aggregate of the purchase prices or parts of purchase prices payable by such occupier for the quantities of raw jute purchased by him during such period after deducting the amounts, if any, refunded to him by the seller during such period in respect of any quantity of raw jute returned to the seller within ninety days from the date of its purchase and such other amounts as may be prescribed.(b) in the case of a shipper of jute, the aggregate of the purchase price or parts of purchase price payable by such shipper of jute in respect of the quantities of raw jute purchase by him in West Bengal and dispatched by him during such period to any place outside West Bengal by any means of transit.(c) in case of any dealer liable to pay tax under s. 12 or s. 13, the aggregate of the purchase price or parts of purchase price payable by such dealer in respect of the goods, prescribed under t...


Purchaser

Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be traced, before 1926, and now, as to a limitation to the heir taking effect as purchaser (see previous title, and (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 132).The statute enacts that in every case descent shall be traced from the purchaser; and to the intent that the pedigree may never be carried further back than the circumstances of the case and the nature of the title shall require, the person last entitled to the land (which expression extends to the last person who had a right thereto, whether he did or did not obtain the possession or the receipt of the rents and profits thereof (s. 1)), is, for the purposes of the Act, to be considered to have been the purchaser thereof, unless it shall be proved that he inherited the same, in which case the person from whom be inherited the same shall be considered to have been the purchaser, unless it shall be p...


Hire-purchase agreement

Hire-purchase agreement, Hire-purchase agreements are executor contracts under which the goods are let on hire and the hirer has an option to purchase in accordance with the terms of the agreement. These types of agreements were originally entered into between the dealer and the customer and the dealer used to extend credit to the customer. But as hire-purchase scheme gained in popularity and in size, the dealers who were not endowed with liberal amount of working capital found it difficult to extend the scheme to many customers. Then the financiers came into the picture. The finance company would buy the goods from the dealer and let them to the customer under hire-purchase agreement. The dealer would deliver the goods to the customer who would then drop out of the transaction leaving the finance company to collect installments directly from the customer. Under hire-purchase agreement, the hirer is simply paying for the use of the goods and for the option to purchase them. The finance...


Vendor's lien for unpaid purchase money

Vendor's lien for unpaid purchase money. Where a vendor of land conveys, without more, although the consideration is expressed to be paid both in the body of the deed and by a receipt endorsed on the back of it, still if the money or part of it was not in fact paid, a lien arises as between the vendor and the purchaser, and persons claiming as volunteers, for so much of the purchase money as remains unpaid. The mere giving of security will not prevent the lien arising, unless it appears that the security was to be substituted for the lien. Similarly a purchaser will have a lien for prematurely paid purchase money, see Mackreth v. Symmons, (1808) 15 Ves 329; 1 W &TLC.If the lien arose before 1926 and was not transferred after 1925, a purchaser for value of the legal estate in the land from the original purchaser will take it subject to the lien if he had notice of it, and in all cases where a pre-1926 lien has been transferred or a lien has arisen since 1925, it must be registered under...


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