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Perquisite, something gained by a place or office over and above the stated wages; anything gotten by industry or purchase with money different from that which descends from a father or ancestor; also fines of copy holds, heriots, amerciaments, etc.A perquisite is only that amount of money which allowed to the employee by or is due to him from or is paid to enable the latter to effect in insurance on his life, Commissioner of Income Tax v. L.W. Russel, AIR 1965 SC 49 (52): (1964) 7 SCR 569. [Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 7(1) Expl. 1 Cl. (v)]...
Perquisited
Supplied with perquisites...
Droits of admiralty
Droits of admiralty, the perquisites attached to the office of Admiral of England (or Lord High Admiral). Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne and Lord High Admiral, resigned the rights to these droits to the Crown for a salary, as Lord High Admiral, of 7,000l. a year. When the office was vacant, they belonged to the Crown. Of these perquisites, the most valuable is the right to the property of an enemy seized on the breaking out of hostilities. In the arrangement of the Civil List during the recent reigns, it was settled that whatever droits of Admiralty accrued were to be paid into the Exchequer for the use of the public. The Lord High Admiral's right to the tenth part of the property captured on the seas has been relinquished in favour of the captors. Droits of Admiralty also included all unclaimed wreck, flotsam, jetsam, ligan and derelict, which are now dealt with by the (English) Receiver of Wreck for the District, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60),...
Pension
Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services.By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 56, no person having a pension under the Crown during pleasure, or for any term of years, is capable of being elected or sitting in the House of Commons.Old Age Pension.--The (English) Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, which was not on a contributory basis, gave to every person the right to a pension who fulfilled certain conditions. The Act, with the amending (English) Old Age Pensions Acts, 1911, 1919 and 1924, has been repealed by the (English) Consolidating Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 31). These conditions are contained in s. 2 of the Act of 1936, as follows:-2. The statutory conditions for the receipt of an old age pension by any person are--(1)The person must have attained the age of seventy, or in the case of a blind person, the age of fifty.(2)The p...
emolument
emolument : a return arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites [the President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation…and he shall not receive within that period any other "U.S. Constitution art. II"] ...
Emolument
The profit arising from office employment or labor gain compensation advantage perquisites fees or salary...
Perquisite
Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered especially a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service...
Perquisition
A thorough inquiry of search...
Bannock
Bannock, a thick cake of oatmeal, being a perquisite of a mill-servant in thirlage....
Easter offerings, or Easter dues
Easter offerings, or Easter dues, small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishio-ners of Easter as a compensation for personal tithes, or the tithe for personal labour; recoverable under 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 6, before justices of the peace, see Reg. v. Hall, (1868) LR 1 QB 632. In that case the vicar of Batley in Yorkshire was held entitled to recover, on evidence of a custom, for every communicant, 2d.; every cow, 2d.; every plough, 2d.; every foal, 1s.; every hive of bees, 1d.; every house, 3-1/2d.; and the question whether a payment of 2d. per head for every member of a family of or above the age of sixteen was left open. A Rubric at the end of the Communion Service of the Prayer Book to the effect that 'yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or his or their Deputy or Deputies, and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due, then and at that time to be paid,' probably refers to such specific payments as thos...
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