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Royalty

a payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. It is usually a payment of money, but

As Parliament may by law determine

stands out to be an enabling provision for incorporating sub-article (3B) under Article 332. Be it noted that proportionality though mainly dependent upon the basis of population but it cannot always be done with arithmetical precision and

abate

a nuisance] b : make void : nullify [ an action] 2 : to reduce in amount esp. proportionately [ a tax] vi 1 : to become defeated or become null or void [when a public officer

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Metely

According to measure or proportion proportionable proportionate

Fire

the purchase be receivable by the purchaser subject to consent of the insurers, and to payment of the proportionate part of the premium by the purchaser. This condition may be excluded or modified by agreement. In a

Average

Average, a medium, a mean proportion used in various senses:- (1) A service which a tenant owes to his lord by doing work with

Complete destruction

premises, the lessor is entitled to recover such part of the rent for the entire terms as is proportionate to the period of occupancy by the lessee, Vannattankandy Ibrayi v. Kunhabduylla Hajee, (2001) 1 SCC 564.

De onerando pro rata portionis

portionis, an ancient writ, where a person was distrained for rent which ought to be paid by others proportionably with him Fitz. N. B. 234; New Nat. Br. 586.

Dividend

De G&J 606. 'Dividend' in its ordinary connotations means the sum paid to or received by a shareholder proportionate to his share-holding in a company out of the total sum distributed, C.I.T. v. Nalim Behari Singha, AIR

Royalties

sense in which the word is used in connection with mining leases, is a payment to the lessor proportionate to the amount of the demised mineral worked within a specific period, Halsbury's Laws of England, para 236.

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