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bill
bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions bill [ə-prō-prē-ā-shənz-] : a bill providing money for government expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. bill of pains and penalties : a legislative act formerly permitted that imposed a punishment less severe than death without benefit of a judicial trial compare bill of attainder in this entry NOTE: The term bill of attainder is often used to include bills of p...
no true bill
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Bill
Bill. See BILL IN CHANCERY; BILL OF EXCHANGE; BILL IN PARLIAMENT, etc.The word 'Bill' in the proviso must be interpreted to include an amendment of any of the clause of the Bill, at least any substantial amendment thereof, Babulal Parate v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51 (55): (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3, Proviso)Bill, in the Indian Parliament, a bill can originate in either House of Parliament. However a Money Bill and a Bill containing inter alia provisions attracting clause (1) of Article 110 of the Constitution cannot be introduced in Rajya Sabha, Constitution of India, Article 107.Bill, in England, a bill may be introduced either in the House of Commons or in the House of Lords but a great majority are introduced in the lower House; Generally, no Bill involving finance may be introduced in the House of Lords and in practice only routine and non-controversial Legislation is initiated in the Upper House. The office of the Speaker in the Parliament of Commonweal...
Bill of health
Bill of health, 'a certificate or instrument, signed by consuls or other proper authorities, delivered to the masters of ships at the time of their clearing out from ports or places suspected of being particularly subject to infectious disorders, certifying the state of health at the time that such ship sailed. A clean bill imports that at the time the ship sailed no infectious disorder was known to exist. A suspected bill, commonly called a touched patent or bill, imports that there were rumours of an infectious disorder, but it had not actually appeared. A foul bill, or the absence of a clean bill, imports that the place was infected when the vessel sailed.'-McCull. Com. Dict. see QUARANTINE....
Taxation
Taxation, is a tax levy; the principle of levying taxes, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1494.Taxation, is levying charge, a pecuniary burden, for the support of government, by authority of the legislature. The consent of the tax-payer is not necessary to its enforcement, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 1006.Taxation, no Bill or amendment seeking permission for imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax can be introduced or moved except on the recommendation of the President and such a Bill cannot be introduced in Rajya Sabha. [Constitution of India, Art. 117(1)]Taxation, no taxation without representation can be levied or collected except by authority of law, Constitution of India, Art. 265.Taxation, though the expression 'taxation', as defined in Art. 366(28), 'includes the imposition of any tax or impost, whether general or local or special', the amplitude of that definition has to be cut down if the context otherwise so requires. In re ...
grand jury
grand jury : a jury that examines accusations against persons charged with crime and if the evidence warrants makes formal charges on which the accused persons are later tried see also no bill and true bill at bill, indictment compare petit jury, special grand jury ...
ignoramus
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Ignore
Ignore, to throw out a bill of indictment.Ignore, means to refuse to notice, recognise, or consider. To reject as groundless, to no bill, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 750....
Vexatious indictments
Vexatious indictments. In order to prevent these, it was provided, by the (English) Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 17) (repealed), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, ss. 1, 2 (repealed), that no bill of indictment for perjury, conspiracy, indecent assault or certain other misdemeanours therein named, should be presented to a grand jury, unless the prosecutor had been bound over by recognizance to prosecute, or unless the person accused had been committed to or detained in custody, or unless the indictment should be preferred with the written consent of the Attorney-General. The (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (which abolished Grand Juries and amended the law as to presentment of indictments), repealed the whole of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, and s. 1 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867, but not so as to affect any enactment restricting the right to prosecute in parti...
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