Rack

Magazine rack

A rack or stand for displaying magazines4...

Rack renter

One who is subjected to paying rack rent...

Rack, an engine of torture, said not to have been used in England since 1640. See TORTURE.Means an instrument of torture on which a person was slowly stretched, formerly used to interrogate someone charged with a crime, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1265....

Rack rent

Rack rent, means 'of or approaching the full annual value of the property' out of which it ensues. It means gross rent and not net rent, Lakhanshi Hiralal & Co. v. Damji Khimji & Co., 1969 Bom 73: (1968) ILR Bom 855: (1968) 70 Bom LR 394: (1968) Mah LJ 835....

Rack-rent

Rack-rent, represents the full value of the tenement, by the year, that is gross value, or nearly so, Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 39,p. 270, pp. 386...

Rack-vintage

Rack-vintage, a second vintage, wines drawn from the lees....

Owner

Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw. 7, c. ccix.), 'the person for the time being receiving the rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee, or who would so receive the same if the same were let at a rack-rent' (see that title), and Kensington Corporation v. Allen, (1926) 1 KB 576.In relation to an industrial undertaking, means the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the undertaking, and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the owner of the undertaking. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (f)]In relation to an undertaking, means an individual Hindu undi...

Rackwork

Any mechanism having a rack as a rack and pinion...

Rent

Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...

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