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Rate payer, 'rate payee' means a person liable to pay any rate, tax, cess or licence fee under this Act. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(41)]...
Local Improvements
Local Improvements. By the (English) Public Improvements Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 30), a majority of two-thirds of the rate payers of any parish or district may, by 'adopting' that Act rate their district in aid of certain public improvements (e.g., public walks, playgrounds, etc.) for general benefit within their district. Half the proposed expenditure must have been privately subscribed, and the rate must not exceed sixpence in the pound. The power of adopting and exercising the Act for a rural parish is vested in the parish council (if any) of that parish, bys. 7 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (67 & 57 Vict. c. 73)....
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
Beer
Beer, a liquor, compounded of malt and hops. The selling of it by retail is regulated by various Acts. The (English) Licensing Act of 1828, which did not allow the sale of beer by retail except in 'alehouses,' etc., requiring a licence from justices of the peace-grantable or refusable in their absolute discretion-not being considered to afford sufficient facilities for supplying the public with beer, the (English) Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), was passed to allow any person to retail beer upon taking out an excise licence only.This Act was amended in 1834 by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 85, which drew a distinction between houses for the retail of beer to be drunk on the premises where sold-commonly called beerhouses-and houses for the retail of beer not to be drunk on the premises where sold-commonly called beershops, by requiring that the keeper of a beerhouse should obtain as a condition precedent to his excise license a certificate of good character, signed by six rate payers n...
Borough Funds Acts
Borough Funds Acts. The (English) Borough Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 91) (commonly called Leeman's Act), authorized borough councils and governing bodies of other urban districts to apply public funds under their control to promoting or opposing bills in Parliament or to prosecute or defend legal proceedings in the interest of their constituents, but will not allow of their indemnifying the chief constable for costs he has incurred in opposing a licensing appeal at Quarter Sessions, Tynemouth Corporation v. A.-G., 1899 AC 293; and the Borough Funds Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 14), has materially amended that Act by requiring the resolutions of councils to promote bills to be submitted to public meetings, and dispensing with the consent of owners and rate-payers to incurring expense in opposing bills. See now the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 254 et seq., which consolidates and amends both the 1872 and 1903 Acts, but does not apply to London. See C...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
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Agricultural rates
Agricultural rates, The (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, as amended by the (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1923, provides that the occupier (including the owner if rated in place of the occupier) of agricultural land shall be liable to one quarter only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. These exemptions were preserved by the (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, s. 22, but agricultural land and buildings are now entirely derated, see the (English) Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and the Local Government Act, 1929, s. 67....
adjustable-rate mortgage (arm)
adjustable-rate mortgage (arm) a mortgage loan that does not have a fixed interest rate. During the life of the loan the interest rate will change based on the index rate. Also referred to as adjustable mortgage loans (AMLs) or variable-rate mortgages (VRMs). Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Current official scale of rates
Current official scale of rates, the expression 'current' means 'vogue' or 'prevalent'; and 'current rate' may mean the rate obtaining at a particular time or at a future time or from time to time. The terms goes well with the present, future and recurrent, the words 'current official' scale of rates' in para IV of the agreement mean the official scale of rates current or prevalent from time to time during the currency of the agreement, Gopisetti Venkatratmam v. Vijayawada Municipality, AIR 1966 SC 353 (354, 355): (1965) 3 SCR 276. [Electricity Act, (9 of 1910), s. 21(2)]...
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