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loss 1 : physical, emotional, or esp. economic harm or damage sustained: as a : decrease in value, capital, or amount compare gain b : an amount by which the cost of something (as goods or services) exceeds the selling price compare profit c : something unintentionally destroyed or placed beyond recovery d : the amount of an insured's financial detriment due to the occurrence of a stipulated event (as death, injury, destruction, or damage) in such a manner as to create liability in the insurer under the terms of the policy NOTE: As a general rule, economic losses are deductible from adjusted gross income under section 165 of the Internal Revenue Code. There are, however, numerous exceptions and limitations. actual loss : the identifiable and calculable monetary detriment that is suffered or will be suffered as a result of an act or event actual total loss : a loss in marine insurance in which the property (as a vessel or cargo) cannot be repaired or recovered compare constru...
Constructive total loss
Constructive total loss, a term used in the law of marine insurance to denote a loss which entitles the assured to claim the whole amount of his insurance, on giving to the assurers notice of abandonment. Generally there is a constructive total loss when the subject-matter assured has not actually perished or lost its form or species, but has, by one of the perils insured against, been reduced to such a state or placed in such a position as to make its total destruction, though not inevitable, yet highly imminent, or its ultimate arrival under the terms of the policy, though not utterly hopeless, yet exceedingly doubtful. In such a case the assured, by giving notice within a reasonable time to the assurers of abandonment, i.e., the relinquishment of all his right to whatever may be saved, is entitled to recover against them as for a total loss.If notice is not given, the loss is treated as a partial loss unless the ship in fact has become a total loss or if there would be no possibilit...
Loss
Loss, the word 'loss' used in Railway Act can never mean loss to the owner, it means that the goods have disappeared in the course of transit and neither the railway nor the consignor nor the consignee re or is in a position to trace them, Union of India v. Sha Vastimull Harakchand, AIR 1959 Mys 13.The word 'loss' in the third clause of the 6th paragraph of art. III to the Act means and includes any loss caused to a shipper or a consignee by reason of the inability of the ship or the carrier to deliver part or whole of the goods, to whatever reason such failure may be due, East and West Steamship Co. v. S.K. Ramalingam Chettiar, AIR 1960 SC 1058: (1960) 3 SCR 820 [Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925, Sch. Art III, Para 6, Cl. (3)]The word 'loss' is intended to mean and include every kind of loss to the owner of the goods--whether it is the whole of the consignment which is not delivered or part of the consignment which is not delivered and whether such non-delivery of the whole or part ...
Accumulated loss
Accumulated loss, means so much of the loss of the amalgamating banking company under the head 'profits and gains of business or profession' (not being a loss sustained in a speculation business) which such amalgamating banking company, would have been entitled to carry forward and set off under the provisions of section 72 if the amalgamation had not taken place. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 72AA, Exp.]Means so much of the loss of the amalgamating banking company under the head 'Profits and gains of business or profession' is not being a loss sustained in a speculation business which such amalgamating bank company, would have been entitled to carry forward and set-off under the provisions of section 72 if the amalgamation had not taken place, [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 72AA Explanation]...
loss leader
loss leader : something (as merchandise) sold at a loss in order to draw customers loss-leader adj ...
proof of loss
proof of loss :a statement submitted to an insurer setting forth a loss that the insured expects to be covered ;also : proof that such a loss has occurred ...
Loss
The act of losing failure destruction privation as the loss of property loss of money by gaming loss of health or reputation...
Compensation for loss of employment
Compensation for loss of employment, expression 'compensation for loss of employment' used in explanation 2 to s. 7 refers to any payment made, whether under a legal liability or voluntarily, to compensate or act as a solatium for the loss of employment suffered by the employee', Commissioner of Income Tax v. E.D. Sheppard, AIR 1963 SC 1343 (1347): (1964) 1 SCR 163. (Income-tax Act 1922, s. 7, Expl. 2)...
Trading loss
Trading loss, loss of stock, in trade has to be considered as a trading loss, T.A. Quereshi v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Bhopal, 2006 INDLAW SC 998....
Wrongful gain, wrongful loss
Wrongful gain, wrongful loss, a person can be said to have dishonest intention if in taking the property it is his intention to cause gain, by unlawful means, of the property to which the person so gaining is not legally entitled or to cause loss, by wrongful means, of property to which the person so losing is legally entitled. It is further clear from the definition that the gain or loss contemplated need not be a total acquisition or a total deprivation but it is enough if it is a temporary retention of property by the person wrongfully gaining or a temporary 'keeping out' of property from the person legally entitled, K.N. Mehra v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1957 SC 369 (372). (Indian Penal Code, s. 378 and 23)...
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