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Home Dictionary Name: rateableRateable value of a building
Rateable value of a building, the criteria for deter-mining rateable value of a building is the annual rent at which such building might reasonably expect to get from a hypothetical tenant, if the building were let from year, less certain deductions. What is reasonable is a question of fact and it depends on the facts and circumstances of a given situation, Dr. Balbir Singh v. M.C.D., AIR 1985 SC 339: (1985) 1 SCC 167: (1985) 2 SCR 439....
Rateable value
Rateable value, means the value of any land or building fixed in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder for the purpose of assessment to property taxes. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(42)]...
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...
Mine
Mine [fr. mwyn or mwy, Wel., fr. maen, a stone], an excavation or cavern in the earth; an excavation made for the purpose of getting coal or other minerals.The inspection and regulation of mines other than coal mines is provided for by the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875. As to the corresponding provisions in the case of coal mines, see COAL MINES.Coal mines only were rateable under 43 Eliz. c. 2, but the Rating Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 54), has made all mines rateable.Neither mines under railways [see (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20), ss. 77-85], nor under waterworks [see (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 Vict. c. 17), ss. 18-27], pass to the respective companies, unless expressly purchased. See also (English) Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Acts, 1923, 1925, and 1934; the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1926 (c. 17), and the (English) Mining Industry Act (c. 28). By the (English) Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908, as...
Parochial Assessment Act, 1836
Parochial Assessment Act, 1836 (English) (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 96), whereby poor-rates were made on the net annual value of the rateable property, is now repealed and the net annual rateable value is defined for the purposes of the (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, in s. 22 of the Act....
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Advertisement
Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...
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...
Dividend
Dividend, a share, the part allotted in division; the interest paid on the public funds; the share of profits of a company payable to each shareholder (see Articles 89 to 96 of Table A to Companies Act, 1929, and ss. 120-123 of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845); a distributive share of a bankrupt's estate or on the winding-up of the company, of its assets.As to the liability upon a company in respect of a dividend when the warrant for it, having been duly posted, is lost in the post, see Thairlwal v. G.N. Ry., (1910) 2 KB 509l.Dividend means the share of the subscriber in the amount of discount available under the chit agreement for rateable distribution among the subscribers at each instalment of chit. [Chit Funds Act, (40 of 1982), s. 2(h)]Dividend, is a share of profits, whether at a fixed rate or otherwise, allocated to the holders of shares in a company, Henry v. Great Northern Rly. Co., (1857) 1 De G&J 606.'Dividend' in its ordinary connotations means the sum paid to...
Drainage
Drainage, Sanitary.--Drainage for sanitary purposes is regulated by Part II, ss. 14-52, of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, which provides (s. 39) that local authorities may enforce drainage of undrained houses, etc.Agricultural.--Drainage for agricultural purposes is provided for by the (English) Land Drainage Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 44), which provides for the constitution of drainage districts with their respective drainage boards, which districts are to consist of catchment areas or other drainage districts and any drainage districts or areas constituted under the (English) Land Drainage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 133), and any subsequent enactment subject to the provisions of the Act of 1930. Catchment Boards are appointed partly by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and partly by local authorities within the catchment area and partly by the Minister consulting internal Drainage Boards; see s. 3 of the (English) L.D. Act, 1930. Drainage Boards are elected by ow...
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