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Lloyd's bonds

Lloyd's bonds. Instruments under the seal of a railway company, admitting the indebtedness of the company to a specified amount to the obligee, with a covenant to pay him such amount with interest on a future day. So called from the name of the counsel who originally settled such a bond. All such 'loan notes' issued otherwise than under the authority of some statute are invalid, and by the (English) Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), s. 17, the railway company issuing them forfeits to the Crown a sum equal to the sum for which any note purports to be a security....


cross-examination

cross-examination : the examination of a witness who has already testified in order to check or discredit the witness's testimony, knowledge, or credibility see also confrontation clause compare direct examination, recross-examination, redirect examination NOTE: In accordance with Rule 611 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, cross-examination should only refer to matters that were covered during direct examination or that are relevant to the witness's credibility. Anything exceeding these limits is permissible at the court's discretion. Rule 611 also states that “ordinarily leading questions should be permitted on cross-examination.” cross-examine vb cross-examiner n ...


Credibility

The quality of being credible credibleness as the credibility of facts the credibility of witnesses...


Warranty

Warranty, a guarantee or security; formerly a promise or covenant by deed by the bargainer, for himself and his heirs, to warrant and secure the bargainee and his heirs against all persons for the enjoying of the thing granted accompanied by a promise, express or implied, that if eviction should take place, the warrantor would substitute an equivalent estate in its place-see Co. Litt. 365 a. In that form it has been superseded in practice by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, cc. 27 (s. 39) and 74 (s. 14). See RECOVERY.More generally, a warranty is any agreement either accompanying a transfer of property, or collateral to the contract for such transfer, see Lawrence v. Cassell, (1930) 2 KB 83, and Miller v. Cannon Hill Estates Ltd., (1931) 2 KB 113, or to any other agreement or transaction, and in so far as it is a contract a warranty does not differ from any other contractual promise. A warranty may be express or implied by law or statute.For instances of implied warranties, see that title, CAVEAT EMPTOR, ...


Credibleness

The quality or state of being credible worthiness of belief credibility...


Fraud

Fraud, a fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1.A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.).A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670.In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater importance than the intention of the defendant or any representation made to the plaintiff, and the same may b...


Arable land

Arable land. The Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 30, allows freedom of cropping of arable land, which expression 'shall not include land in grass, which by the terms of any contract of tenancy is to be retained in the same condition throughout the tenancy.''Arable land' is meant not only land capable of cultivation but also actually cultivated. It is not arable not because it is cultivated but because it is something else such as waste, pasture, ancient meadow etc. Indeed the fact that the land is actually cultivated demonstrates its nature as arable-land, Ishvarlal Girdharilal Jushi v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 870 (880): (1968) 2 SCR 267. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 17(1)]According to the Oxford Dictionary 'arable land' is 'land which is capable of being ploughed or fit for village'. In the context of s. 17(1) of the Act the expression must be construed to mean 'lands which are mainly used for ploughing and for raising crops', Raja Anand Brahmo Slah...


Money lender

Money lender, a few disconnected and isolated transactions would not make a person engaged regularly in Money lending business, Ka Icildawallang v. U. Lokendra Sojour, AIR 1987 SC 2047. [Assam Money-lenders Act, (4 of 1934), s. 2(1)]--The (English) Money-lenders Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 51), by s. 6 defines the expression 'money-lender' therein as includingevery person whose business is that of money-lending, or who advertises or announces himself or holds himself out in any way as carrying on that business.but not including a pawnbroker (see that title), a Friendly, Building, or Loan Society (see those titles) or a corporation empowered by statute to lend money, orany person bona fide carrying on the business of banking or insurance or bona fide carrying on any business not having for its primary object the leading of money, in the course of which and for the purposes whereof he lends money; or any body corporate for the time being exempted from registration under this Act by order...


Locomotives. I

Locomotives. I. On Highways.--Locomotives on highways are of two classes: (a) Light Locomotives; (b) Heavy Locomotives.(a) Formerly the expression light locomotive and motor car meant the same apart from certain provisions as to registration. As to motor cars, see MOTOR CAR.Now light locomotives as defined by the (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), are mechanically propelled vehicles which are not constructed themselves to carry any load (other than water, fuel, equipment, tools, etc.), and the weight of which unladen does not exceed 11-1/2 tons, but does exceed 7-1/4 tons. Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43).A person under 21 shall not drive a light locomotive (s. 9), two persons must be employed in driving or attending, and if driving a trailer one or more in addition (s. 17). The period of continuous driving by any one person is limited by (s. 19) to 5-1/2 hours amounting to not more than 11 in the aggregate in 24 hours, and the driver is to have at ...


Stamp duties

Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...


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