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Promoter, a term anciently sometimes applied to a common informer generally (see 5 Inst. 191), but in modern times applied only to the prosecutor of an ecclesiastical suit, as in Combe v. Edwards, (1878) 3 PD 103.Those who obtain, or take steps for obtaining, the passing of a private Act of Parliament, to the incorporation of a company under the Companies Acts, are called the promoters. In many respects promoters stand in a fiduciary capacity towards the company which they are engaged in forming, see Twycross v. Grant, (1877) 2 CPD 469; Lagunas Nitrate Co. v. Lagunas Syndicate, (1899) 2 Ch 392, and also OMNIUM; Electric Palace v. Baines, (1914) 1 Ch 532, where the position of promoter vendors was discussed. The promoters usually pay the registration fees, and the company is under no liability to repay them, Re National Motor Co., (1908) 2 Ch 515.As to the liability of promoters of a company for any untrue statements in the prospectus, see s. 37 of the Companies Act, 1929, and 4th Sch.,...
Promotion
Promotion, as understood in ordinary parlance and also as a term frequently used in cases involving service laws means that a person already holding a position would have a promotion if he is appointed to another post which satisfies either of the two conditions namely that the new post is in a higher category of the same service or that the new post carries higher grade in the same service or class, Dr. Meera Massey v. Dr. S.R. Mehrotra, (1998) 3 SCC 88.Means advancement or preferment in honour, dignity, rank or grade. Promotion thus not only covers advancement to higher position or rank but also implies advancement to a higher grade, State of Rajasthan v. Fateh Chand Soni, (1996) 1 SCC 562: 1996 SCC (L&S) 340.Promotion as understood under the service law jurisprudence means advancement in rank, grade or both. Promotion is always a step towards advancement to a higher position, grade or honour. Opting to come to a lower pay scale or to a lower post cannot be considered a promotion, it...
Commission, the promoter's
Commission, the promoter's, means the amount by which the aggregate total stakes in all the competitions exceeds the sum of (1) the aggregate prize in the competitions; (2) the aggregate pool betting duty payable in respect of the competitions; and (3) the expenses of the promoter actually incurred by him in the conduct of the competitions, excluding any expenses properly chargeable to capital and any interest on borrowed money, and in particular, excluding any provision for the depreciation of building or equipment, any emoluments payable to the promoter, or, if the promoter is a partnership, to any of the partners, or, if the promoter is a body corporate, to any of the directors, and in any case any emoluments payable to any person whose emoluments depends to any extent on the profits of the promoter, Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963, s. 4(3), Sch. 2, para 23(2) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 116, p. 84....
Sales promotion employees
Sales promotion employees, means any person by whatever name called (including an apprentice) employed or engaged in any establishment for hire or reward to do any work relating to promotion of sales or business, or both, but does not including any such person,--(i) who, being employed or engaged in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding sixteen hundred rupees per mensem; or(ii) who is employed or engaged mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity. [Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976, s. 2(d)]...
promoter
promoter : one who alone or with others actively participates in the formation of a business or venture [s owe a fiduciary duty to the corporation they are promoting "R. C. Clark"] ...
Promoter
One who or that which forwards advances or promotes an encourager as a promoter of charity or philosophy...
Posting and promotion of district judge
Posting and promotion of district judge, mean post-ing and promotion of person to be district judges, High Court of Punjab & Haryana v. State of Haryana, AIR 1975 SC 613: (1975) 1 SCC 843; United Bank of India v. Meenakshi Sundaram, (1998) 2 SCC 609....
Where promotions to a grade are made from more than one grade
Where promotions to a grade are made from more than one grade, the rule of seniority set out in Paragraph 5(ii) of the Memorandum dated December 22, 1959 would be attracted in all cases where promotions to a grade are made from more than one grade, irrespective as to whether these grades all belong to the same service or not. It would not be right to limit the applicability of the seniority rule set out in this provision by reading into it a limitation which is not there, merely because an illustration of the applicability of the seniority rule given in the Explanatory Note relates to a case where the grades are all in the same service, P.S. Mahal v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 1291: (1984) 4 SCC 545 (577): (1984) 3 SCR 847....
promotion
The act of promoting advancing or encouraging the act of exalting in rank or honor also the condition of being advanced encouraged or exalted in honor preferment...
Promotive
Tending to advance promote or encourage...
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