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Home Dictionary Name: purchaseHire-purchase agreement
Hire-purchase agreement, Hire-purchase agreements are executor contracts under which the goods are let on hire and the hirer has an option to purchase in accordance with the terms of the agreement. These types of agreements were originally entered into between the dealer and the customer and the dealer used to extend credit to the customer. But as hire-purchase scheme gained in popularity and in size, the dealers who were not endowed with liberal amount of working capital found it difficult to extend the scheme to many customers. Then the financiers came into the picture. The finance company would buy the goods from the dealer and let them to the customer under hire-purchase agreement. The dealer would deliver the goods to the customer who would then drop out of the transaction leaving the finance company to collect installments directly from the customer. Under hire-purchase agreement, the hirer is simply paying for the use of the goods and for the option to purchase them. The finance...
Hire-purchase system
Hire-purchase system. A system whereby the owner of goods lets them on hire for periodic payments by the hirer upon an agreement that when a certain number of payments have been completed, the absolute property in the goods will pass to the hirer, but so that the hirer may return the goods at any time without any obligation to pay any balance of rent accruing after return, until the conditions have been fulfilled, the property remains in the owner. The instrument by which the hire-purchase is effected does not ordinarily require registration under the Bills of Sale Acts [Ex parte Crawcour, (1878) 9 Ch D 419]; and the hirer is 'reputed owner' within the Bankruptcy Act [Ex parte Brooks, (1993) 23 Ch D 261]; but the hirer does not 'agree to buy' within the Factors Act or Sale of Goods Act so as to be able to sell or pledge the goods as if he were a 'mercantile agent', Helby v. Matthews, 1895 AC 471; Brooks v. Biernstein, (1909) 1 KB 98. Distinguish from agreements such as in Lee v. Butler...
Purchaser
Purchaser, a buyer, a vendee; also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be traced, before 1926, and now, as to a limitation to the heir taking effect as purchaser (see previous title, and (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 132).The statute enacts that in every case descent shall be traced from the purchaser; and to the intent that the pedigree may never be carried further back than the circumstances of the case and the nature of the title shall require, the person last entitled to the land (which expression extends to the last person who had a right thereto, whether he did or did not obtain the possession or the receipt of the rents and profits thereof (s. 1)), is, for the purposes of the Act, to be considered to have been the purchaser thereof, unless it shall be proved that he inherited the same, in which case the person from whom be inherited the same shall be considered to have been the purchaser, unless it shall be p...
Hire-purchase price
Hire-purchase price, means the total sum payable by the hirer under hire-purchase agreement in order to complete the purchase of, or the acquisition of property in, the goods to which the agreement relates; and includes any sum so payable by the hirer under the hire-purchase agreement by way of a deposit or other initial payment, or credited or to be credited to him under such agreement on account of any such deposit or payment, whether that sum is to be or has been paid to the owner or to any other person or is to be or has been discharged by payment of money or by transfer or delivery of goods or by any other means; but does not include any sum payable as a penalty or as compensation or damages for a breach of the agreement. [Hire-Purchase Act, 1972 (2 of 1972), s. 2 (d)]...
Purchase price
Purchase price, means the amount of valuable consideration paid or payable by a person for any purchase made including any sum charged for anything done by the seller in respect of the goods at the time of or before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged. [The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(20)]Means the amount of valuable consideration paid or payable by a person for any purchase made including the amount of duties levied or leviable under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) or the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and any sum charged for anything done by the seller in respect of the goods at the time of or before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged and includes--(a) in relation to:(i) the transfer, otherwise than in pursuance of a contract, of property in any goods,(ii) the supply of goods by any uni...
Purchase value
Purchase value, means the value of the specified goods as ascertained from the original invoice and includes insurance, excise, duties, counter-vailing duties, sales tax, transport fee, octroi, freight charges and all other charges incidentally levied on the purchase of the specified goods and in the case of the specified goods mentioned at serial number 1 of the schedule also the value of accessories fitted therein:Provided that where purchase value of the specified goods is not ascertainable on account of non-availability or non-production of the original invoice, or when the invoice produced is proved to be false, or if the specified goods are acquired or obtained otherwise they by way of purchase, than the purchase value shall be the value or price at which the specified goods of the like kind or quality are sold or are capable of being sold, in open market in the local area. [The Gujarat Tax on entry of Specified Goods into Local Area Act, 2001, s. 2(i)]...
Hire purchase agreement and contract for sale
Hire purchase agreement and contract for sale, a contract of hire-purchase is properly speaking a contract of hire by which the hirer is granted an option to buy but is not, as under a contract of sale, under a legal obligation to do so. The contract of hire-purchase is one of the variations of the contract of bailment, but it is a modern development of commercial life, and the rules with regard to bailments, which were laid down before any contract of hire-purchase was contemplated, cannot be applied simpliciter, because such a contract has in it not only the element of bailment but also the element of sale, Instalment Supply Ltd. v. S.T.O., (1974) 4 SCC 739: AIR 1974 SC 1105....
Purchase money
Purchase money, means the sum for which anything is or may be purchased, The Oxford English Dictionary.Purchase money, refers to the price of that which was the subject-matter of purchase and sale. Giving natural construction to the words used, it is the entire amount which has to be paid by the vendee either to the vender, or to some other person or persons, apart from the vendor, in order to acquire title in the property which constitutes 'purchase money', Dukhan Sah v. Gajendra Sah, AIR 1984 Pat 368 [see also Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Act, 1962, s. 16(3)(i)]...
purchase
purchase pur·chased pur·chas·ing vt 1 : to acquire (real property) by means other than descent or inheritance 2 : to obtain by paying money or giving other valuable consideration ;specif : to take (property) by a voluntary transaction (as a sale, mortgage, pledge, lien, or gift) that creates an interest and that is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code see also bona fide purchaser vi : to purchase something pur·chas·able adj pur·chas·er n n : an act or instance of purchasing: as a : the acquiring of real property by any means other than descent or inheritance b : the acquiring of an interest in property esp. in exchange for valuable consideration see also word of purchase ...
purchase offer
purchase offer A detailed, written document that makes an offer to purchase a property, and that may be amended several times in the process of negotiations. When signed by all parties involved in the sale, the purchase offer becomes a legally binding contract, sometimes called the Sales Contract. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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