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Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Bailiff
Bailiff, a keeper or protector, an officer who puts in force an arresting process, or who is employed to distrain for rent, for which employment the certificate of a county court judge is required under the (English) Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1888.Bailiffs to execute county court processes are appointed under s. 28 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), to assist one or more 'high bailiffs' for each court. Also, land-steward. There are several kinds of bailiffs, whose offices and employments greatly differ from one another, yet they agree in that the keeping or protection of something belongs to them all.A Court officer who maintains order during court proceeding; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 136.Means an officer of some courts in United States whose duty usually include keeping order in the court-room and guarding prisoners or jurers in deliberation, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 41....
Foreign company
Foreign company. Every Company incorporated outside the United Kingdom, which has a place of business in the United Kingdom, has to comply with certain regulations laid down by Part XI., ss. 343-352 of the Companies Act, 1929. The regulations relate, inter alia, to the registration with the registrar of companies of a copy or translation of the instrument and regulations constituting the company, a list of directors with the statutory particulars and the names and addresses of one or more residents in Great Britain for service of notices and process on the company, and other important provisions. Companies incorporated in a British possession are empowered to hold land in the United Kingdom without prejudice to their powers by virtue of registration in Northern Ireland (s. 345). Special regulations are made for companies incorporated in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (s. 343).The general provisions of the Companies Act, 1929, relating to charges on property in England and on p...
Gross rent
Gross rent, means not only the rent which the land-lord could get in lieu of his enjoyment of the property assigned to the tenant but also all other charges incidental thereto. Service charge can be taken into account while determining gross rent, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. Damodar Ropeways and Construction Co. Pvt. Ltd., AIR 2007 (NOC) 1178 (Cal) [Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, s. 174(1)]....
Inaccuracy on the face
Inaccuracy on the face, 'inaccuracy on the face' of the certificate is not as wide in its connotation as an 'error apparent on the face of the record', Chettiam Veettil Ammad v. Taluk Land Board, AIR 1979 SC 1573: (1989) 1 SCC 499: (1979) 3 SCR 839....
Stamp duties
Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
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