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Money Bill

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...

Money

Money, means current coin; metal stamped in pieces as a medium of exchange and measure of value. Hence, anything serving the same purpose as coin, late ME. In mod. use applied indifferently to coin and to such promissory documents representing coin as are currently accepted as a medium of exchange, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; see also C.I.T. v. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., (1999) 3 SCC 346.Money, the Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edn., defines the word 'money' thus: 'In usual and ordinary acceptation. It means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate, Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky 319, 133 SW 2d 74, 79, 81. See also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., defines it as follows: 'Money as cu...

Injuria illata judici, seu locum tenenti regis, videtur ipsi regi illata, maxime si fiat in exercente officium

Injuria illata judici, seu locum tenenti regis, videtur ipsi regi illata, maxime si fiat in exercente officium [Lat.], an injury offered to a judge, or person representing the king, is considered as offered to the king himself, especially if it be done in the exercise of his office...

Bumper draw of a lottery

Bumper draw of a lottery, 'bumper draw of a lottery' means a special draw of lottery conducted on or during any festival or other special occasion wherein the prize money offered is greater than the prize money offered in the case of other ordinary draw of lotteries. [Lotteries (Regulation) Act, (17 of 1998), s. 2(a)]...

prospectus

prospectus pl: -tus·es [-tə-səz] : a preliminary printed statement describing a business or other enterprise and distributed to prospective buyers, investors, or participants ;specif : a description of a new security issue supplied to prospective purchasers and providing a disclosure of detailed information concerning the company's business and financial standing NOTE: Under the Securities Act of 1933, the prospectus is part of the registration statement that must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission before a security may be offered or sold to the public. The Securities Act defines prospectus broadly as “any prospectus, notice, circular, advertisement, letter, or communication, written or by radio or television, which offers any security for sale or confirms the sale of any security.” ...

Aurum regin'

Aurum regin', queen-gold. A royal revenue belonging to every queen consort during her marriage with the king, and due from every person who has made a voluntary offering or fine to the king amounting to ten marks or upwards, for and in consideration of any privileges, grants, licenses, pardons, or other matters of royal favour conferred upon him by the king. It is due in the proportion of one-tenth part more, over and above the entire offering or fine made to the king, and becomes an actual debt of record to the queen's majesty by the mere recording of the fine, 1 Bl. Com. 214....

Alibi

Alibi (elsewhere). It is a defence restored to where the party accused, in order to prove that he could not have committed the crime with which he is charged, offers evidence that he was in a different place at the time the offence was committed.Else ware, in law this term is used to express that defence in a criminal prosecution, where the party-accused, in order to prove that he could not have committed the crime charged against him, offers evidence that he was in a different place at that time. The plea taken should be capable of meaning that having regard to the time and place when and where he is alleged to have committed the offence, he could not have been present. The plea of alibi postulates the physical impossibility of the presence of the accused to the scene of offence by reason of his presence at another place. Denial by an accused of an assertion made by his employer that the accused was on leave of absence from duty on the date of offence does not, by any stretch of reaso...

Receive

To take as something that is offered given committed sent paid or the like to accept as to receive money offered in payment of a debt to receive a gift a message or a letter...

Reason

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion a just ground for a conclusion or an action that which is offered or accepted as an explanation the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon a motive for an action or a determination proof more or less decisive for an opinion or a conclusion principle efficient cause final cause ground of argument...

Offertory

The act of offering or the thing offered...

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