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Embezzlement
The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted as the embezzlement by a clerk of his employers money embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge...
Stock
Stock, a race, lineage, or family; also, the public funds [for definition, see (English) National Debt Act, 1870, Part VII., and 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 (1)], considered merely as perpetual annuities redeemable at the pleasure of the Government; also, the capital of a public company, as to which see SHARES.The plain meaning of the word 'stock' in these provisions of the Act is 'to keep' and the injunction of the law means no more than this that no person shall keep for sale a misbranded drug or a drug in respect of which a valid licence is not held. It is not necessary that the drug should be 'stored' in a place in order that it can be said to have been 'stocked' for sale, S.K. Amir v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1974 SC 469: (1974) 4 SCC 210: (1974) 3 SCR 84. [Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, ss. 18(a) and (c), 27(a)]Stock, refers to currency of the State, irrespective of the place of registration of the company. The very use of the word 'stock itself connotes uniformity', National B...
Disburse
To pay out to expend usually from a public fund or treasury...
Fundholder
One who has money invested in the public funds...
nonsectarian
not restricted to one sect or school or party as religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere public funding is restricted to nonsectarian colleges Opposite of sectarian...
warrant
warrant [Anglo-French warant garant protector, guarantor, authority, authorization, of Germanic origin] 1 : warranty [an implied of fitness] 2 : a commission or document giving authority to do something: as a : an order from one person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified act required for the administration of justice [a of arrest] [by of commitment] administrative warrant : a warrant (as for an administrative search) issued by a judge upon application of an administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued to a law enforcement officer ordering the officer to arrest and bring the person named i...
Mahal
Mahal [Indian, literally a place], any land or public fund producing a revenue to the government of Hindostan. Mahalaat is the plural. Any local area held under a separate engagement for the payment of land revenue (U.P. Land Revenue Act, s. 4)....
peculation
peculation [Late Latin peculation- peculatio, from Latin peculari to embezzle, from peculium private property, from pecu cattle] : misappropriation esp. of public funds ...
Jeux de bourse
Jeux de bourse, mean 'games of the stock exchange. Speculation in stock or bonds, as by dealing in options or futures. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 840.Jeux de bourse, speculating in the public funds or stock, French phrase....
Civil proceeding
Civil proceeding, there is no ground for restricting the expression 'civil proceeding' only to those proceedings which arise out of civil suits or proceedings which are tried as civil suits, nor is there any rational basis for excluding from its purview proceedings instituted and tried in the High Court in exercise of its jurisdiction under Art. 226, where the aggrieved party seeks relief against infringement of civil rights by authorities purporting to act in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by revenue statutes, CIT, Bombay v. Iswarlal Bhagwandas (1966) 1 SCR 190.The words 'civil proceeding' used in Art. 133 of the Constitution cover all proceedings which directly affect civil rights, Arbind Kumar Singh v. Nand Kishore Prasad, (1968) 3 SCR 322: AIR 1968 SC 1227 (1229).The expression in our judgment covers all proceedings in which a part asserts the existence of a civil right conferred by the civil law or by statute, and claims relief for breach thereof, Cultivable land, S.A....
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