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Audit, an examining of accounts. An audit may be either detailed or administrative, and is usually both. A detailed audit is a comparison of vouchers with entries of payment, in order that the party whose accounts are audited may not debit his employer with payments not in fact made. An administrative audit is a comparison of payments with authorities to pay, in order that the party whose accounts are audited may not debit his employer with payments not authorised. If in either branch of audit an improper entry is discovered, the auditor surcharges the party whose accounts are audited; whereby the payment must be made by such party out of his own pocket. Where no fraud is suspected, however, and when there has been no negligence, it is common for the surcharge to be remitted [see, e.g., (English) Local Government Act, 18 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 230], especially where the party whose accounts are audited has given his service gratuitously.The public accounts are audited under the (E...
Cis-Sutlej Jagirs
Cis-Sutlej Jagirs, 'cis-sutlej jagirs' in the State of Punjab fall within the definition of jagir in s. 2(1) (a) of the Punjab Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1957 and as such the State had authority to resume them, Amarsarjit Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1962 SC 1305: 1962 Supp (3) SCC 346. [Punjab Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1957 (39 of 1957), s. 2(i)(a)]...
Cancellation
Cancellation, any manner of obliteration and defacement, as of an adhesive stamp in the manner prescribed by s. 8 of the (English) Stamp Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 91), which enacts that-(1) Mode of Cancellation. An instrument, the duty upon which is required or permitted by law [see ss. 22, 34, 49(2), 52(3), 64, 69(3), 78(1), 79(2), 80(2), 85(1), 90, 99, 101(2), 110(1), and 111(2)], to be denoted by an adhesive stamp, is not to be deemed duly stamped with an adhesive stamp, unless the person required by law to cancel the adhesive stamp cancels the same by writing on or across the stamp his name or initials, or the name or initials of his firm, together with the true date of his so writing, or otherwise effectively cancels the stamp and renders the same incapable of being used for any other instrument, or for any postal purpose, or unless it is otherwise proved that the stamp appearing on the instrument was affixed thereto at the proper time.(2) Plurality of Stamps. Where two or more ...
Receiver
Receiver, is a person appointed for the collection or protection of property. He is appointed either by the court or out of court by individuals or corporations, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 39, p. 403, pp. 801.Receiver. (1) An officer appointed by the court to collect rents, etc., pending a suit. Receivers are appointed in actions for administration; in actions by mortgages or against trustees or executors; in actions between partners for winding up the partnership business, and in a great many other cases. (2) A mortgagee may also appoint a receiver of the mortgaged property, if empowered so to do by the mortgage deed or by separate instrument, without having to apply to the court; and by s.19 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, reproduced and extended to mortgages of certain incorporated hereditaments, such as rentcharges or annual income, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 101, in the case of a mortgage executed on or after the 1st January, 1882, the ...
Affidavit
Affidavit [fr. affidare, M. Lat., to pledge one's faith, fr. fides, Lat.], a written statement sworn before a person having authority to administer an oath.By the practice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, all evidence is, as a rule, to be given viva voce; but this may be altered by agreement of the parties, or the Court or a judge may for sufficient reason order that any particular fact or facts may be proved by affidavit, or that the affidavit of any witness may be read at the hearing or trial on such conditions as are thought reasonable; provided that no such order be made where a witness can be produced and is bona fide required for cross-examination (R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVII., r. 1). A new Procedure is provided for by R. S. C., Ord. XXXVIII. A., r. 8 J. affidavits must be confined to such facts as the witness is able of his own knowledge to prove, except on interlocutory motions, on which statements as to his belief, with the grounds thereof, may be admitted.As to time for fil...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421.The act of receiving something; a written acknow-ledgment that something has been received, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.A stamp duty first imposed in 1783 was progressively ad valorem, until 1853, when the uniform 1d. rate was imposed; this was increased to 2d. by the Finance Act, 1920.For the purposes of the Stamp Act, 1891, the expression 'receipt' is defined (s. 101) as including--(1) Any note, memorandum, or writing whereby any money amounting to two pounds or upwards, or any bill of exchange or promissory note for money amounting to two pounds or upwards, is acknow-ledged or expressed to have been received or deposited or paid, or whereby any debt or demand, or any part of a debt or demand, of the amount of two pounds or upwards, is acknowledged to have been settled, satisfied, or discharged, or which signifie...
Bakehouse
Bakehouse. Any place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionery from the baking or selling of which a profit is derived. ss. 97-102 of the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), contain various sanitary provisions for the regulation of bakehouses, as defined above in Part II of Sched. VI of the Act. S. 98 enables a Court of Summary Jurisdiction to fine the occupiers of in sanitary bakehouses and to order them to remove the ground of complaint of an inspector or district council. Limewashing, painting or varnishing are prescribed by s. 99, sleeping-places must be specially constructed as required by s. 100. By s. 101 underground bake-houses may not be used without a district council certificate, and by s. 102 it is for the district council to enforce these provisions as to retail bakehouses....
Clerk of the peace
Clerk of the peace. His duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of special duties in connection with the affairs of the county. He is also clerk of the county council, by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (applying to London). The offices are separated by (English) Local Government (Clerks) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), s. 1, but by s. 2 usually the same person will be appointed to both. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 101; London County Council General Powers Act, 1930 (c. clix.), ss. 26-28.Removal is regulated by 1 Wm. & M. c. 21, and (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), ss. 2, 3, 4.As to appointment, etc., in a quarter sessions borough, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 164....
Writ
Writ [breve, Lat.], a judicial process, by which any one is summoned as an offender; a legal instrument to enforce obedience to the orders and sentences of the courts. For the particular writs, see their distinctive names, as assistance, capias, etc.The (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833, abolished all writs in real and mixed actions (except in dower unde nihil habet, quare impedit or ejectment), expressly naming sixty abolished writs (e.g., the writ of right de rationabili parte, of quo jure, of assize of novel disseisin, of entry sur disseisin in the quibus, of waste, of partition, and of per qu' servitia. See also Co. Litt.; Hargr. And Butler's Notes to s. 101, and Index to Notes, ibid. 18th Edn.The most used modern writ is the Writ of Summons, by which (corresponding to the 'Plaint' in a County Court) an action in the High Court of Justice is commenced. See SUMMONS, and for other writs in actions see EXECUTION, ELEGIT, FIERI FACIAS, POSSESSION, and VENDITIONI EXPONAS. For...
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