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Proviso for redemption

at any time at his request and cost. By the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 115, a receipt of the person entitled to give a receipt (see statutory form) for the moneys secured by the mortgage

acknowledge

[will the child as his] compare filiate 3 : to make known to a sender or giver the receipt of (what has been sent or given) or the fact of (one's having received what has been sent

Shipping note

shipper to the chief officer of the vessel requesting him to receive on board specified goods and a receipt for the mate to sign on receiving whose signature it is called the mates receipt and is surrendered

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case number

third case created for Manila on that day. This case number is not the same as the USCIS receipt number, which is written on the Notice of Action, Form I-797, from the USCIS. A consular section abroad

Possession

law. 'Possession' means 'the state of owning or having in one's hands or power. It includes possession by receipt of rents and profits, Gaddam Vekayamma v. Gaddan Veerayya, (1956) Andh LT 77: (1956) Andh WR 988 (NOC)

On whose behalf

On whose behalf, the words 'on whose behalf' in the deposit receipt, in the context, must mean, 'in whose favour' and that the receipt was in full compliance with s.

Legacy duty

testator or intestate and legatee. The personal representative is liable to pay the duty. He must show a receipt signed by the legate giving certain particulars, including the amount or value of the legacy and the duty

Consignor

Consignor, means the person, named in a railway receipt as consignor, by whom or on whose behalf goods covered by the railway receipt are entrusted to a

Cancellation

person by whom they are first executed; proxies (s. 80) which are to be similarly cancelled; and a receipt for 2l. or more (s. 101), which is to be cancelled by the person by whom the receipt

Acquintance

Acquintance, means a document by which one is discharged from a debt or other obligation, a receipt or release indications payment in full, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24. Acquittance is a discharge in

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