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roll over 1 a : to defer payment of (an obligation) b : to renegotiate the terms of (a financial agreement) 2 : to place (invested funds) in a new investment of the same kind [roll over IRA funds] ...
Roll
To cause to revolve by turning over and over to move by turning on an axis to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface as to roll a wheel a ball or a barrel...
Master of the Rolls
Master of the Rolls [magister rotulorum, Lat.], originally the chief of a body of officers called the Masters in Chancery, of whom there were eleven others, including the Accountant-General. The Master of the Rolls subsequently became a judge of the Court of Chancery, who ranked next to the Lord Chancellor, and had the keeping of the rolls and grants which passed the Great Seal, and the records of the Chancery. All orders and decrees by him made, except such as by the course of the Court, were appropriated to the Great Seal alone, were deemed to be valid, subject, nevertheless, to be discharged or altered by the Lord Chancellor, and were not enrolled till they were signed by the Lord Chancellor, 3 Geo. 2, c. 30.This judge, by the (English) Jud. Act, 1881, s. 2 [see now Jud. (English) Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)], now sits in the (English) Court of Appeal only. Before that Act he was the second judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [Jud. Act, 1873, s. 31 (1)], and also an ...
Rolling
Rotating on an axis or moving along a surface by rotation turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot as a rolling wheel or ball...
Siderography
The art or practice of steel engraving especially the process invented by Perkins of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it when hardened a soft steel cylinder and then rolling the cylinder when hardened over a soft steel plate which thus becomes a facsimile of the original The process has been superseded by electrotypy...
Resiant rolls
Resiant rolls, those containing the resiants (residents) in a tithing, etc., which are to be called over by the steward on holding courts-leet....
Electoral roll
Electoral roll, The electoral roll referred to in s. 62(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 must be understood to be the electoral roll that was in force on the last day for making the nominations for the election, Baidyanath Panjiar v. Sitaram Mahto, (1969) 2 SCC 447: AIR 1970 SC 314: (1970) 1 SCR 839.For being eligible to be included in electoral register, one has to be: (1) a resident in that Constituency, (2) should not be subject to any legal incapacity, (3) has to be either a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, (4) has to be of 18 years of age or above on the date of poll, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 26.In U.K., it is known as electoral Register. The Representation of People Act, 1983 provides for the presentation of Registers of Parliamentary electors once a year and all persons who claim to vote must be registered before election, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 28.Is known as 'voters' l...
Roll
Roll, a schedule of parchment that may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe, Staundf. P.C. 11. A list, as a burgess roll, a freeman's roll under the Municipal Corporations Act. All pleadings, memorials, and acts of Court are entered on rolls, and filed with the proper officers, and then they become records of the Court.Means a roll of advocates prepared and maintained under this Act. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) s. 2(1)(b)]1. A record of a court's or public office's proceedings 2. An official list of persons and property subject to taxation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1329...
Roll of Court
Roll of Court, the Court-roll in a manor, wherein the business of the Court, the admissions, surrenders, names, rents, and services of the tenants ae copied and enrolled. 'Copyhold lands are lands holden by copy of Court roll; that is, the muniments of the title are copies of the roll or book in which an account is kept of the proceedings in the Court of the manor to which the lands belong.'-Williams on Real Property. As to custody, an superintendence, of the Master of the Rolls, see COPYHOLD, and Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch....
Rolling stock
Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carri-ages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(a)]By the Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 50), rolling stock of a railway company, when out on sidings, etc., belonging to private occupiers, is exempted from distress for rent due from the occupiers. The rolling stock is protected from execution by s. 4 of the Railway Companies Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 127), made perpetual by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 31.Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carriages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, s. 2(r)]...
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