Overcharge - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Overcharge, means 'a charge of a sum more than is permitted by law'. (Aiyar P. Ramantha: The Law Lexicon, 1997 Edn., p. 1389)....
Extortion
The act of extorting the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force by threats or by any undue exercise of power undue exaction overcharge...
Overcharge
To make excessive charges...
Surcharge
Surcharge, an overcharge of what is just and right; exceeding one's powers or privileges; a declaration by an auditor that a person is personally liable to refund a particular part of public money illegally expended by him [see, e.g. the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 247 (7)]; a second or further mortgage. See AUDIT.1. An additional tax, charge, or cost usu. one that is excessive 2. An additional load or burden, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The expression 'surcharge' in the context of taxation means an additional imposition which results in enhancement of the tax and the nature of the additional imposition is the same as the tax on which it is imposed as surcharge. A surcharge on land revenue is an enhancement of the land revenue to the extent of the imposition of surcharge. The nature of such imposition is the same viz., land revenue on which it is a charge, Sarojini Tea Co. (P) Ltd. v. Collector of Dibrugarh, AIR 1992 SC 1264 (1269): (1992) 2 SCC 156. [Assam Land Revenue and Land (S...
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