Postage Stamp - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Postage stamp, the expression means any stamp provided by the Central Government for denoting postage or other fees or sums payable in respect of postal articles under this Act, and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on any envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (g)]...
Fictitious stamp
Fictitious stamp, means any stamp falsely purporting to be issued by the government for the purposes of denoting a rate of postage, or any facsimile or imitation or representation, whether or paper or otherwise of any stamp issued by government for that purpose [Act (45 of 1860), s. 263A(3)]...
Philatelist
One versed in philately one who collects postage stamps as a hobby or for investment a stamp collector...
Pelure
A crisp hard thin paper sometimes used for postage stamps...
Philately
The collection of postage stamps of various issues...
Stamp duties
Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
Duly stamped
Duly stamped, an instrument can be said to be duly stamped only if it bears stamps of the amount and description in accordance with the law of the State concerned, the law including not only the Act, but also the rules framed under the Act, New Control Jute Mills Co. v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1963 SC 1307 (1311): (1964) 1 SCR 535. [Uttar Pradesh Stamp Rules, 1942, R.3]As applied to an instrument, means that the instrument bears an adhesive or impressed stamp of not less than the proper amount and that such stamp has been affixed or used in accordance with law for time being in force in India. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (11)]Levy of duty, the duty is levied under the statutory provision and not under the discretion of the authorities under the provision, Khoday India Ltd. Anekal v. State of Karnataka, 2007 (3) Kar LJ 162...
Penny Postage Act
Penny Postage Act (English) (3 & 4 Vict. c. 96), repealed by Post Office Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 48)....
Postage
Postage, the duty or charge imposed on letters or parcels conveyed by post. See POST OFFICE.The expression means the duty chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (f)]...
Impressed stamp
Impressed stamp, includes--(a) labels affixed and impressed by the proper officer, and(b) stamps embossed or engraved on stamped paper. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (2 od 1899), s. 2 (13)]...
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