Return Day - Law Dictionary Search Results
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return day : a day when a return is to be made: as a : a day on which the defendant in an action or proceeding is to appear in court (as for arraignment) b : a day on which the defendant in an action must file an answer c : a day on which a hearing on an action or proceeding (as a motion) is to be held d : a day on which proof of service must be returned e : a day fixed by law for the canvassing of election returns called also return date ...
Return-Days
Return-Days. These were certain days in term for the return of writs, 1 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 160....
return
return 1 a : to give (an official account or report) to a superior (as by a list or statement) [ the names of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty days "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the grand jury ed six indictments] [ed a verdict of not guilty] 2 : to bring in or produce (as earnings or profit) : yield re·turn·able adj n 1 a : the delivery of a court order (as a writ) to the proper officer or court b : proof of service 2 : return day 3 : an account or formal report (as of an action performed or duty discharged or of facts and statistics) [census s] ;esp : a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information usually used in pl. 4 a : a report of the results of balloting [election s] b : an official declaration of the election of a candidate [each house shall be the judge of the elections, s,...
Day in banc
Day in banc, was the return day of writs....
First hearing of application
First hearing of application, The word first hearing of the application as used in proviso (i) to sub-s. (2) of s. 13 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 does not mean the day fixed for return of the summons or the returnable day but the day when the Court applies its mind to the case, Sham Lal v. Atma Nand Jain Sabha, AIR 1987 SC 197: (1987) 1 SCC 222: (1987) 1 SCR 509....
returning resident
returning resident Any Lawful Permanent Resident who has been outside the United States and is returning to the U.S. Also defined as a "special immigrant." If outside of the U.S. for more than 180 days, must apply for readmission to the U.S. If outside of the U.S. for more than one year and is returning to his or her permanent residence in the United States, usually must have a re-entry documentation from USCIS or an immigrant visa from the Department of State. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign
Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign [fr. essonium, Lat.; essoine, Fr.; ex, priv., and soing, cura; ab angusta cura, vel labore liberare, which is a more probable derivation than Gk.; though it signifies to excuse by means of an oath, which is the precise nature of an essoin. See Spelman, voc., 'Essoniare' ], an excuse for him who is summoned to appear and answer to an action, or to perform suit to a Court-baron, etc., by reason of sickness or infirmity or other just cause of absence.The causes of excuse called essoins allowed in the King's Court were many. The principal essoin was that de infirmitate, which was of two kinds: 1. De infirmitate veniendi; 2. De infirmitate resianti'--of which the first was afterwards called de malo veniendi, the latter de malo lecti. See 1 Reeves, 115 and 405, for other essoins.Formerly the first general return day of the term was called the essoin day, because the Court sat to receive essoins; but when essoins were no longer allowed to be cast, i.e., obtained, in ...
Venditioni exponas
Venditioni exponas, a judicial writ addressed to the sheriff, commanding him to expose to sale goods which he has already taken into his hands, to satisfy a judgment-creditor, Reg. Judic. 33. After delivery of this writ the sheriff is bound to sell the goods, and have the money in Court on the return day of the writ, 3 Steph. Com.By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord.XLIII., r. 2, this writ may be sued out where it appears upon the return of a fi. fa. that the sheriff has seized goods but not sold them....
His return of income
His return of income, the expression 'his return of income' occurring in Rule 5 of the U.P. Agricultural Income Tax Rules, 1949 would apply to any of the returns contemplated under s. 15 of the U.P. Agricultural Income Tax Act, 1948, namely, (1) a return filed in pursuance of the general notice issued and published by the Collector under s. 15(1), (2) a return filed by the Principal Officer of a Company under s. 15(2) read with Rule 21, (3) a return filed in pursuance of individual notice served upon an assesses by the Assessing Authority under s. 15(3), and (4) a return or a revised return filed by an assesses under s. 15(4), provided that in the first three cases the return is filed within the time specified in the notice or the rule or within the extended time granted by the Assessing Authority and in the last case the revised return is filed on account of discovery of a wrong statement in the previous return and is filed before the assessment is complete, Delhi Cloth & General Mill...
False return
False return by sheriff on nulla bona to writ of fi. fa, after levying is actionable; for form of claim, see Bullen and Leake, Prec. Of Pl.A process server's or other court officials recorded misrepresentation that process was served, that some other action was taken, or that something is true, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 619.A return cannot be said to be 'false' unless there is an element of deliberations in it. It is possible that even where the incorrectness of the return is claimed to be due to want of care on the part of the assessee and there is no reasonable explanation forthcoming from the assessee for such want of care, the Court may, in a given case, infer deliberations and the return may be liable to be branded as a false return. But where the assessee does not include a particular item in the taxable turnover under a bona fide belief that he is not liable so to include it, it would not be right to condemn the return as a 'false' return inviting imposition of penalt...
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