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Hinde Palmer's Act

Hinde Palmer's Act. The Administration of Estates Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 46), which abolished the priority of specialty (see SPECIALTY) over simple contract debts in the administration of the estates of persons dying after 1st January, 1870. The Act has been replaced and reproduced by the Administra-tion of Estates Act, 1925, s. 32....

Hobhouse's Act

Hobhouse's Act, the Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 60), an adoptive Act for the better regulation of parish vestries, Repealed, except as. 39, s. to parish meetings in rural parishes under the Local Government Act, 1894, bys. 89 and Sched. II. of that Act....

Conductor's licence

Conductor's licence, means the licence issued by a competent authority under Chapter III authorising the person specified therein to act as a conductor. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (6)]...

Fifteen day's wages

Fifteen day's wages, In any factory it is well known that an employee never works and could never be permitted to work for all the 30 days of the month. He gets 52 Sundays in a year as paid holidays and, therefore, the basic wages and dearness allowance are always fixed by taking into consideration this economic reality ..... A worker gets full month's wages not by remaining on duty for all the 30 days within a month but by remaining on work and doing duty for only 26 days. The other extra holidays may make some marginal variation into 26 working days, but all wage boards and wage fixing authorities or tribunals in the country have always followed this pattern of fixation of wages by this method of 26 working days, Digvijay Woollen Mills Ltd. v. Mahendra Prataprai Buch, AIR 1980 SC 1944: (1980) 4 SCC 106: (1981) 1 SCR 64....

subchapter s corporation

subchapter s corporation A corporation that has elected under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code not to pay any corporate taxes on its earnings, and instead to have its shareholders pay taxes on it ...

dead man's statute

dead man's statute : a law barring the testimony of a person with an interest in an estate regarding any conversation with or any event taking place in the presence of the decedent called also dead man act dead man's act ...

Dominion (His Majesty's)

Dominion (His Majesty's). The Statute of West-minster (22 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 1, provides: 'In this Act the expression Dominion means any of the following Dominions ,that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland'; see also COLONY. These Dominions are also styled self-governing Dominions...

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