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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 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)]...
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)]...
Taxable purchase value of goods
Taxable purchase value of goods, shall mean the purchase price at which a dealer has purchased the goods inclusive of charges borne by him as cost of transportation, packing, forwarding the handling commission, insurance, taxes, duties and the like or if such goods have not been purchased by him, the prevailing market price of such goods in the local area. [Rajasthan Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 1999, s. 2(r...
Option of purchase in a lease
Option of purchase in a lease. A clause giving the lessee the option of purchasing the reversion for a fixed sum within a limited number of years, or at anytime during the term, is sometimes inserted in leases. A clause giving an option of purchase at any time during a ninety-nine years' lease offends against the law of perpetuities (see that title) and cannot be specifically enforced, Woodall v. Clifton, (1905) 2 Ch 257; Worthing Corporation v. Heather, (1906) 2 Ch 532. For statement of opinion that the clause 'to be completely valid must be so expressed that the option must necessarily be exercised (if at all) within the limits of the time allowed by the rule against perpetuities,' so that probably not more than twenty one years could be allowed in a lease independent of life, see article by Mr. T. Cyprian Williams in the Solicitors' Journal for July 9, 1898; and for cases on option of purchase generally, see Woodfall, L. & T....
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....
Option of purchasing an undertaking
Option of purchasing an undertaking, the expression 'option of purchasing an undertaking' merely means the right of purchasing the undertaking. The word 'option' is used because two courses are open to the concerned authority namely, either to purchase the undertaking or renew the licence, Gujarat Electricity Board v. Shantilal Desai, AIR 1969 SC 239 (242): (1969) 1 SCR 580. [Electricity Act, 1910, s. 7]...
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 ...
Sale of goods and purchase of goods
Sale of goods and purchase of goods, in order to constitute a sale there must be an agreement for sale of goods for a price and the passing of property therein pursuant to such an agreement, in order to constitute a sale it is necessary that there should be an agreement between the parties for the purpose of transferring title to goods which of course presupposes capacity to contract, that it must be supported by money consideration, and that as a result of the transaction property must actually pass in the goods. Unless all these elements are present, there can be no sale'.On the other hand to constitute a 'purchase of goods' within this Entry, there must be an agree-ment for purchase of goods and the passing of property therein pursuant to such an agreement, State of Madras v. Gannou Dunreeley & Co., AIR 1958 SC 560 followed; Andhra Sugars Ltd. v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1968 SC 599 (602). [Constitution of India, Sch. 7, List 2, Entry 54]...
Purchase, Words of
Purchase, Words of, those by which, taken abso-lutely without reference to or connection with any other words, an estate first attaches, or its considered as commencing in point of title, in the person described by them. 'It is a rule in law, known as the rule in Shelley's case, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase' (1 Rep. 104 a; Van Grutten v. Foxwell, 1897, AC 658). The rule has been abolished in regard to all conveyances executed after 1925. In a limitation to an ancestor for life, then to his heir or any class of heirs or issue, the words heirs or issue are now words of purchase and not of limitation (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 131). See HEIR, and SHELLEY'S CASE. At the same time, a grant to A. and his heirs may still be use...
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