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Knight's fee [feodum militare, Lat.], twelve plough-lands, the value of which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep. Touch. 92, 93. Selden contends that it was as much as the king was pleased to grant upon condition of having the service of a knight, Tit. Of Hon., p. ii., c. v., ss. 17, 26. See TENURE....
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
Super-tax
Super-tax. This term was first employed in the (English) Income Tax Act, 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 40), s. 4, to denote an additional duty of income tax which was then levied upon incomes of over 2,500l., altered to 2,000l. by 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 18, per annum. The duty was at the rate prescribed by Parliament in any year.By the (English) Finance Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 10), s. 38, super tax has ceased to become charge-able; instead, income tax is charged at a standard rte and persons whose income exceeds a stated amount pay at a higher rate in respect of the excess. The higher tax on the excess is treated as a deferred instalment of income tax and is called SUR-TAX. See ss. 38 and 40 (ibid.)....
Recovery of land
Recovery of land, the title, since the Judicature Acts, of the action of 'ejectment' to transfer the poss-ession of land from the wrongful to the rightful owner.Under the County Courts Orders, see Order V., actions to recover possession of land under ss. 138 and 139 of the County Courts Act, 1888, were to be so called in distinction from actions of ejectment under s. 59, ibid., but by the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 48, county courts have jurisdiction over actions for the recovery of land where neither the value of the land nor the rent exceeds 100l. per annum, and references to ss. 138 and 139 of the Act of 1888 are to be construed as references to s. 48 of 1934. As to the judges' discretion under s. 138 of the County Courts Act, 1888, see Sheffield Corporation v. Luxford, (1929) 2 KB 180....
Pensioner
Pensioner, the expression 'pensioner' is generally understood in contra-distinction to the one in service. Those who render after service retire on superannuation and are in receipt of pension are 'pensioners'. They constitute a homogenour class; for the purpose of pension benefit they cannot be discriminated from other pensioners, D.S. Nakara v. Union of India, (1983) 1 SCC 305: AIR 1983 SC 130 (133).1. One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another; a dependant; he who receives an annuity from Government without filling any office.2. A band of gentlemen who attend as a guard on the royal person. It was instituted in 1539; each gentleman has an allowance of 150l. per annum, and two horses. This band is now called the Honourable Body of Gentlemen-at-Arms.3. A member of a college at Cambridge who is not on the foundation....
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
Capitation fee
Capitation fee. A fee for each person dealt with by the person who receives it; as where a schoolmaster, in addition to his salary, or instead of it, is paid one pound per annum for each boy in the school.'Capitation fee' means charging or collecting amount beyond what is permitted by law, Unni Krishnan J.P. v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1993 SC 2178 (2247): (1993) 1 SCC 645...
Justices
Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...
Domestics
Domestics, menial servants (so called from being intra m'nia domus, within the walls of a house). The contract between them and their masters arises upon the hiring. In this country it is usual to engage domestic servants at a fixed amount of wages per annum. But there is generally no express stipulation as to the time that the service is to last; and when the terms are not otherwise defined the contract is thus understood that either party may determine the service at pleasure, upon a month's warning or upon payment of a month's wages. As to the persons entitled under a bequest to 'domestic servants,' see Re Lawson, (1914) 1 Ch 682; Re Jackson, 39 TLR 400. See MASTER AND SERVANT.For the purposes of Unemployment Insurance, employment in domestic service, except where the employed in any trade or business carried on for the purpose of gain, is an excepted employment under the (English) Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1935 and 1936 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 8) and (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 13). H...
Denariate
Denariate, as much land as is worth one penny per annum....
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