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arm's length : the condition of the parties to a business deal in which each has independent interests and one does not dominate the other often used in the phrase at arm's length [a contract made at arm's length] arm's-length adj ...
Banker's Books
Banker's Books, includes ledgers, day books, cash-books, account-books and other records used in the ordinary business of the bank, whether in written form or kept on microfilm, magnetic tape, or other forms of retrieval mechanism, State of Norway's Application, (1987) QB 433; Williams v. Summer Field, (1972) 2 QB 513.Banker's Books, includes ledgers, day books, cash-books, account-books and all other records used in the ordinary business of the bank, whether these records are kept in written form or stored in a microfilm, magnetic tape or any other form of mechanical or electronic data retrieval mechanism, either onsite or at any offsite location including back-up or disaster recovery site of both, Banker's Books Evidence Act, 1891, sec. 2(3)...
Banker's acceptance
Banker's acceptance, is a short-term credit instrument issued by an importer's bank that guarantees payment of an exporter's invoice, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 43....
City's cash
City's cash, the revenues derived from the corpora-tion's estates are usually known as 'city's cash', and are applied for charitable, educational, ceremonial and other purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 29, para 60, p. 45....
Scroop's Inn
Scroop's Inn, an obsolete law society, also called Serjeant's Place, opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London...
On one's own account
On one's own account, means 'for one's own sake; on one's responsibility, American Express Bank Ltd. v. Calcutta Steel Co., (1993) 2 SCC 199 (209)....
Oswald's law hundred
Oswald's law hundred, an ancient hundred in Worcestershire, so called from Bishop Oswald, who obtained it from King Edgar to be given to St. Mary's Church in Worcester. It was exempt from the sheriff's jurisdiction, and comprehends 300 hides of land, Camd. Brit....
Queen's Remembrancer
Queen's Remembrancer, an officer on the revenue side of the Court of Exchequer. See the (English) Queen's Remembrancer Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 21), and the (English) Crown Suits Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 104). He became an officer of the Supreme Court by the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 77....
S.S., Collar of
S.S., Collar of. Collars bearing these letters, or consisting of many of them linked together, have been much worn by persons holding great offices in the state, e.g., by the Lord Chief Justice of England. The signification is obscure...
Ship's papers
Ship's papers, documents required for the manifes-tation of the property of the ship and cargo, etc. See a list of them in Form No. 17, Appx. K, of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883.They are of two sorts: (1) those required by the law of a particular country, as the certificate of registry, licence, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be onboard all British ships; (2) those required by the law of nations to be onboard neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; they are the passport, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll, or role d'equipage; the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health, 1 Marshall on Insur., c. 9, s. 6....
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