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Home Dictionary Name: payablePayable on demand
Payable on demand, The words 'payable on demand' in a promissory note mean payable 'at once'. Ajyappankutty v. Mathoo Mathai, AIR 1955 Trav 65 (66). (Travancore Cochin Stamp Act, 1899, Art. 89)The words 'payable on demand' have been given different meaning when applied with reference to 'money lent' and 'money deposited'. In the content of Art. 21, the meaning and effect of these words is 'always payable' or payable from the moment when the loan is made, whereas in the content of Art. 22, 'the meaning is 'payable when actually a demand for payment is made'. The words 'on demand' in law have a special meaning and when an agreement states that an amount is payable on demand. It implies that it is always payable, that is payable forthwith and a demand is not a condition precedent for the amount to become payable. The meaning attached to the expression 'on demand' as 'always payable' or 'payable forthwith without demand' is not one of Universal application. The said meaning is normally app...
Payable
Payable, 'payable' generally means that which should be paid, New Delhi Municipal Committee v. Kalu Ram, AIR 1976 SC 1637 (1639): (1976) 3 SCC 407: (1976) Supp SCR 87.The expression 'the full amount payable by the foreign buyer in respect of the goods' occurring in cl. (b) would mean merely the total amount which is due from the foreign buyer in respect of the goods actually exported; and what would be due from a foreign buyer has to be merely the price which he has been agreed to pay and not any fanciful, unreal or inflated price which the exporter may choose to falsely incorporate in the invoice with any ulterior motives. The foreign buyer cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be held to be liable to pay any amount over and above the price which he has promised to pay for the goods received by him and any difference between that price and the price given in the invoice can therefore not have the attribute of having become 'payable' by him, Director, Enforcement Directorate, Ministry...
Tax payable
Tax payable, means tax payable under this Act on sales or purchase effected by a dealer or casual dealer but does not include tax due as defined in clause (46). [West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(49)]Means the full amount of tax which becomes due when assessed on the basis of the information regarding turnover and taxable turnover furnished or shown in the return, J.K. Synthetices Ltd. v. Commercial Taxes Officer, AIR 1994 SC 2393. (See also Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954, s. 1113)The tax payable is the amount for which a demand notice is issued under s. 156. In determining the tax payable, the tax already paid has to be deducted. Hence, there can be no doubt that the expression 'the amount of the tax, if any, payable by him' referred to in the first part of s. 271(1)(a)(i), refers to the tax payable under a demand notice. Considering the words 'the tax' found in the latter part of that provision. It may be noted that the expression used is not 'tax' but the 'the tax'. The def...
Tax admittedly payable
Tax admittedly payable, the expression 'Tax ad-mittedly payable' means the tax which is payable' inter alia according to the return filed by the dealer, C.S.T. v. Qureshi Cruchble Centre, AIR 1994 SC 25 (26). [Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), s. 8]...
The sum payable
The sum payable, the expression 'the sum payable' would obviously mean the difference between the amount refunded and the reduced amount which was liable to be refunded. The second reason is that even if it were to be held that in the case of enhancement the expression 'the sum payable' in sub-s. (4) means the whole of the enhanced amount by a rule of harmonious construction it has got to be held that in view of s. 3(1)(a) of the Validation Act even in the case of a rectification a notice of demand is to be served now only in respect of the amount by which the Government dues are enhanced, Union of India v. Jardine Henderson Ltd., AIR 1979 SC 972 (977): (1979) 2 SCC 258: (1979) 3 SCR 555....
account payable
account payable pl: accounts payable : the balance due to a creditor on a current account ...
Full amount payable by the foreign buyer in resect of the goods
Full amount payable by the foreign buyer in resect of the goods, the expression 'the full amount payable by the foreign buyer in respect of the goods' occurring in clause (b) would mean merely the total amount which is due from the foreign buyer in respect of the goods actually exported; and what would be due from a foreign buyer has to be merely the price which he has agreed to pay and not any fanciful, unreal or inflated price which the exporter may choose to falsely incorporate in the invoice with any ulterior motives. Director, Enforce-ment Directorate v. Krishnaswamy, AIR 1979 SC 1969 (1971). [Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, s. 12(2)]...
Instrument payable on demand
Instrument payable on demand, means a promissory note or bill of exchange in which no time for payment is specified, and a cheque, are payable on demand (Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, s. 19)....
Is payable
Is payable, the words 'is payable' indicate that the liability to pay the arrears of rent should be out-standing on the date of the issue of demand, The State of U.P. v. Anand Swarup, AIR 1974 SC 125 (128): (1974) 1 SCC 42: (1974) 2 SCR 188....
Sight, Bills payable at
Sight, Bills payable at, are by s. 10 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, replacing the repealed 34 & 35 Vict. c. 74-prior to which three days' grace was allowed-made equivalent to bills payable on demand....
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