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Paper-days. In each of the Common Law Courts certain days were appointed in each term, called Special Paper Days, because the Court on those days proposed to hear the cases entered in the Special Paper for argument. They were also fixed in the Queen's Bench, Crown Paper-days for disposing of business on the Crown side of the Court. On these days no motions were heard. Since the coming into force of the Judicature Acts, arrangements similar to those above mentioned continue to be made....
Business, list of
Business, list of, In the House of Commons, it is called order paper; published every morning under the authority of the speaker; contains the agenda of the sitting for the current day; an item which requires notice but is omitted from the paper is not taken; the items contained therein are (1) Private Business (2) unopposed returns (3) starred questions (4) notices of Public Bills and notions (5) Orders of the Day and Notices of Motions (6) Notices of the various Committees on public matters (7) unshared questions and (8) remaining orders of the day, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, pp. 217-18.Means the agenda for a day's sitting of the legislature; also called Agenda Paper. The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth -- Philip Laundy, p. 511.Business: list of, is prepared in the order in which items of business stand in it, Handbook for Members of Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 13th Edn., 1999, p. 73....
Going through the Bar
Going through the Bar. The chief of a Common Law Court demanding of every member of the Bar, in order of seniority, if he has anything to move; done at the sitting of the Court each day except Special Paper days, and other days on which motions are not taken. See also LAST DAY OF TERM....
b loan or b paper
b loan or b paper FICO scores from 620 - 659. Factors include two 30 day late mortgage payments and two to three 30 day late installment loan payments in the last 12 months. No delinquencies over 60 days are allowed. Should be two to four years since a bankruptcy. Also referred to as Sub-Prime. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
c loan or c paper
c loan or c paper FICO scores typically from 580 to 619. Factors include three to four 30 day late mortgage payments and four to six 30 day late installment loan payments or two to four 60 day late payments. Should be one to two years since bankruptcy. Also referred to as Sub - Prime. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Newspaper
Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Central Government in the Official Gazette. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2 (b)]The essential pre-requisite of a periodical work containing public news or comments on public news, P.S.V. Iyer v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, AIR 1960 Ori 221 (223). (Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947)Any paper to be classified as a newspaper, would contain a report of recent events, Commissioner of Sales Taxi v. Express Printing Press, AIR 1983 Bom 190 (192). [Bombay Sales Act, (51 of 1959), s. 2(3)][s. 81, Indian Evidence Act]The expression 'newspaper' as defined in the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act includes not merely 'public n...
Seal-paper
Seal-paper, a document formerly issued by the Lord Chancellor, previously to the commencement of the sittings, detailing the business to be done for each day in his Court, and in the courts of the Lords Justices and Vice-Chancellors. The Master of the Rolls in like manner issued a seal-paper in respect of the business to be heard before him, Smith's Ch. Pr. 9....
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Noting
Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper attached thereto, or partly upon each.Such notes must be made within a reasonable time after dishonour, and must specify the date of dishonour, the reason, if any, assigned for such dishonour, or if the instrument has not been expressly dishonoured, the reason why the holder treats it as dishonoured, and the notary's charges. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 99]--The making of a memorandum or note on a bill of exchange by a notary which states that he has presented the bill for payment or acceptance, and that it has been dishonoured. It is usual, in cases of non-payment of bills of exchange, for London bankers, after six o'clock on the day upon which the bills fall due, to cause inland bills to be noted. The duty of a notary in protesting a bill consists in thre...
Proxy
Proxy, a person appointed, usually by written authority, by a person entitled to vote personally, to vote at the discretion of the proxy. See Harben v. Phillips, (1883) 23 Ch D p. 35.As to voting by proxy under the (English) Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), see sections 76, 77 of that Act; amended in the case of a company being shareholder, by the Companies Clauses Acts, 1888 and 1889.A letter 'for the sole purpose of appointing or authorizing a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be one or more,' must bear a penny stamp, must specify the day on which the meeting is to be held, and is to be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof [(English) Stamp Act, 1891, and First Schedule]. The Standing Orders of Parliament (L.S.O. 62 and C.S.O. 62) prohibit the sending out of stamped proxies in connection with extension bills. Directors, acting in ...
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