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Page
A serving boy formerly a youth attending a person of high degree especially at courts as a position of honor and education now commonly in England a youth employed for doing errands waiting on the door and similar service in households in the United States a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress...
Paging
The marking or numbering of the pages of a book...
Personal effects
Personal effects, generally include such tangible property as is worn or carried about the person, or to designate articles associated with the person. Personal effects are used to designate articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor, or such tangible property as attends the person, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 31, p. 277.In the unabridged edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, at page 1075, the expression is given the following meaning: Personal effects, privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual. In Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, at page 1301, the expression is assigned the following meaning: Personal effects, articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor. In Cyclopedic Law Dictionary, Third Edition, at page 832, the expression 'personal effects' witho...
above
above 1 : higher on the same page or on a preceding page [the discussion ] 2 : higher or superior in rank or authority [the court ] above the line : in calculations that yield adjusted gross income or profit adj : written or discussed higher on the same page or on a preceding page [the argument] ...
Net wealth tax
Net wealth tax, readings on Taxation in Developing, Countries by Fird and Oldman elucidates the concept of Wealth Tax as follows, at page 281: 'The term 'net wealth tax' is therefore deemed to be imposed on the person of the taxpayer, while the property tax often deemed to be imposed on an object - the property itself.' In Harvard Law School World Tax Series - Taxation in Columbia Net Wealth Tax is defined at page 451 thus: 'As a general rule, all debts owed by a tax-payers, whether to residents or to non-residents, are deductible if their existence is established in conformity with the legal requirements. The usual test of deductibility, as applied by the Division of National Taxes, is whether or not there is an actual, enforceable legal obligation the amount of which is fixed or computable as on December 31, of the tax year.' According to Harvard Law School World Tax Series - Taxation in Sweden - this tax has been levied in Sweden since a long time. Now it is regulated by law enacted...
Wilful
Wilful, deliberate conduct of a person who is a free agent, knows that he is doing and intends to do what he is doing, Dictionary of Law by L.B. Curzon, p. 361. See also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means 'governed by Will without yielding to reason or without regard to reason; obstinately or perversely self-willed, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, p. 2617; see also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means intentional; not incidental or involuntary.Wilful means done intentionally, knowingly, and purposely, without justifiable excuse as distingui-shed from an act done carelessly; thoughtlessly, heedlessly or inadvertently;In common parlance word wilful is used in sense of intentional, as distinguished from accidental or involuntary, Word and Phrases, Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means an act or omission which is done voluntarily and intentionally and with the specific intent to do something the law forbids or with the...
Pagination
The act or process of paging a book also the characters used in numbering the pages page number...
Material resources
Material resources, 'Material resources' is enshrined in art. 39(b) are wide enough to cover not only natural or physical resources but also movable or immovable properties. The mere fact that the resources are material will make no difference in the concept of the word 'resources'. Black's Law Dictionary defined the word recourses thus: Money or any property that can be converted to meet needs; means of raising money or supplies; capabilities of raising wealth or to supply necessary wants. The mere fact that the resources are material will make no difference in the concept of the word recourse. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Vol. 3) at page, 1634, the word material is defined thus: Materials tools or implements, to be used by such artificer in this trade or occupation, if such artificer be employed in mining; wooden props or 'sprags' though neither 'tools or implements' were 'materials' within these words. 'Material' includes a painter's bucket of distemper and brush. In Webster's T...
Meat on hoof
Meat on hoof, In the Oxford English Dictionary, 1933 Edn., Volume V, page 372, one of the meanings of 'hoof' is mentioned as follows: The massive horny growth which sheathes the ends of the digits or encases the foot of quadrupeds forming the order Ungulata, primarily that of the horse and other equine animals: it corresponds to the nails or claws of other quadrupeds. In Collins English Dictionary at page 705 'hoof is defined as under: 1.a. the horny covering of the end of the foot in the horse, deer, and all other ungulate mammals. (in combination): a hoofbeat. Related adj.: angular. 2. the foot of an ungulate mammal. 3. a hoofed animal. 4. Facetious. a person's foot. 5. On the hoofs. 7. hoof it, Slang. a. to walk. b. (intr.) to dance. [Old English hoof; related to Old Norse Hofr, Old High German hoof (German Huf), Sanskrit saphas]. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Third Edn., Vol. 2, page 1333 'hoofs' is mentioned in respect of 'Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926'. In any event...
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