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Deposit

Deposit, money paid to a person as an earnest or security for the performance of some contract, especially a contract … in the civil law, divisible into two kinds: (1) necessary, made upon some sudden emergency, and from some pressing necessity; as, for instance, in case of a fire, a shipwreck, or other overwhelming calamity, when property is

Expectant heir

will accrue on the death of another person. expectant heirs wishing to anticipate this property have frequently borrowed money, to be repaid when the expected property shall devolve upon them. From the uncertainty of this period, the … uncertainty of this period, the unsoundness of the security which the expectant heir can offer, and from the pressing character of his immediate necessities, the rate of interest is necessarily higher than that upon an ordinary loan,

Information

but is now instituted on the Revenue side of the King's Bench Division) is a suit for recovering money or other chattels, or for ob-taining satisfaction, in damages, for any personal wrong committed in the lands or … complaint, also, communicated knowledge. Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating

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Royalty

payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. It is usually a payment of money, but may be a payment in kind, that is, of part of the produce of the exercise of

order

lie gag order : an order barring public disclosure or discussion (as by the involved parties or the press) of information relating to a case order to show cause : an order requiring the prospective object of … the party to whom a negotiable instrument shall be paid [pay to the of John Doe] see also money order, negotiable instrument b : an instruction or authorization esp. to buy or sell goods or securities or

Innkeeper

Anderton, (1909) 1 KB 209. but the liability of innkeepers at the Common Law having been found to press hardly upon them, the (English) Innkeepers Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 41) [as to which see … seize their clothing in actual wear. They are also liable for any loss of or injury to goods, money, and baggage of their guests; and responsible for the acts of their servants and domestics, as well as

Salary or wages

means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in … agent of the transaction is not a sale by the members to the society, Khedut Sahakari Ginning & Pressing Society Ltd. v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1972 SC 1786 (1789). [Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959, s. 2(23)]

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