Road Fund - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: road fundRoad fund
Road fund. A fund established under s. 3 of the Roads Act, 1920, for dealing with moneys applicable to the improvement of roads received under the Act, and also under Part II. of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909. The Fund is administered by the Ministry of Transport in accordance with these Acts and regulations made by the Treasury....
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Cess
Cess [fr. asseoir, Fr., to fix), an assessment or tax. In Ireland it was anciently applied to a exaction of victuals, at a certain rate, for soldiers in garrison, and in modern times is equivalent to the English 'Rate.'Means the cess levied under s. 3. [Research and Development Cess Act, 1986 (32 of 1986), s. 2 (b)]The word 'cess' is used in Ireland and is still in use in India although the word rate has replaced it in England. It means a tax and is generally used when the levy is for some special administrative expense what the name (health cess, education cess, road cess etc.) indicates. When levied as an increment to an existing tax, the name matters not for the validity of the cess must be judged of in the same way as the validity of the tax to which it is an increment, Guruswamy and Co. v. State of Mysore, (1967) 1 SCR 548: AIR 1967 SC 1512. Also see, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., (1990) 1 SCC 12: AIR 1990 SC 85.It means a tax and is generally used when the levy is for some ...
Development Commissioners
Development Commissioners, means the Develop-ment Commissioner appointed for one or more Special Economic Zones under sub-s. (1) and s. 11 [Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005) s. 2(h)]Eight persons so named can be appointed by the king, who also nominates the chairman, under s. 3 of the (English) Development and Road Improve-ment Funds Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 47), as amended by the (English) Act of 1910 (10 Edw. 7 and 1 Geo. 5, c. 7); 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 72; 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 21. The Commissioners are appointed for the purposes of recommendation to the Treasury in regard to advances which the Treasury is empowered to make out of a fund to be called the Development Fund created and provided for by the (English) Act of 1909, for any of the following purposes:--(a) Aiding and developing agricultural and rural industries by promoting scientific research, instruc-tion and experiments in the science, methods and practice of agriculture (including the provision of farm institutes), ...
Milestone
Milestone. The trustees of turnpike roads were, very early in the history of such roads (see 3 Geo. 4, c. 26, s. 119), under an obligation to set up and maintain milestones, but no such legal obligation is expressly imposed upon the managers of public highways, although the Highway Rate, etc., Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 27), repealed, except as to London and Scilly, by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90); by s. 6 constituted 'the expenses incurred by a highway authority in maintaining, replacing, or setting up milestones on any highway' a 'lawful charge upon the highway rate.' Milestones are included among road improvements for purposes of the (English) Development and Roads Improvement Funds Act, 1909, by the Roads Improvement Act, 1925, s. 2....
Road Board
Road Board. A body established by the Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909 (s. 7), of persons appointed by the Treasury. The Ministry of Transport now exercises its powers and carries out its duties through the Ministry's Roads Depart-ment....
Person
Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...
Tolls
Tolls, the word tolls means a levy for the purpose of providing funds for the maintenance of roads and bridges and repayment of the loan for their construction, AIR 1961 Pat 462 (463) (Tolls Act, 1851, s. 2)....
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
bond
bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...
- << Prev.
- Next >>