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Preferential or preference shares or stock

payment of dividends of a fixed amount, and, in some cases, of capital upon a winding-up, over the ordinary shares. The dividends are usually contingent upon the profits of each year or half-year. In some cases, however,

Petty-bag Office

messuage--but not to land, Philipps v. Halliday, 1891 AC 228, or from a faculty or grant from the ordinary, for he has the disposition of all pews, which are not claimed by prescription. As to the proof

Month

making it mean calendar month in commercial documents; it can only bear that meaning where, according to the ordinary rules of construction of documents, a secondary meaning can be admitted, see Burner v. Moore, (1904) 1 Ch

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Peace, Breach of the

security which is guaranteed by the laws for the personal comfort of the subjects of this kingdom. An ordinary subject of the Crown must act as a peace-officer to arrest an offender if a felony is committed,

Ordinarius Income-tax Act dicitu quia habet ordinariam jurisdictionem, in jure proprio, et non propter deputationem

Income-tax Act dicitu quia habet ordinariam jurisdictionem, in jure proprio, et non propter deputationem. Co. Litt. 96, (The ordinary is so called because he has an ordinary jurisdiction in his own right, and not a deputed one.)

Ordinarily resides

some other place to live there, the former place where he used to live, classes to be his ordinary place of residence and the later place becomes his ordinary place of residence. The question of residence is

Public order

AIR 1968 All 100. Public order, is what the French call 'order publique' and is something more than ordinary maintenance of law and order. The test to be adopted in determining whether an act affects law and

Property

Hotels of India v. Jodha Mal Kuthiala, AIR 1950 Punj 201. Every movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70. In commercial law this may

Stannary

Harvey, (1913) 2 Ch 530. The 'Stannaries' covers mines in the Stannaries of Devon and Cornwall; companies and ordinary partnerships working these mines may do so under the cost-book system (see that title), or as companies registered

Ragging

asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as

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