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Appearance sec. stat. (i.e., Secundum statutum), which was entered at law by a plaintiff for a defaulting defendant under 12 Geo. 1, c. 29, and 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, was abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 76, s. 26....
securities and exchange commission (sec)
securities and exchange commission (sec) The five-member board appointed by the president that regulates and oversees stock trading and enforces federal securities statutes. Source: FindLaw ...
Suit for redemption
Suit for redemption, a suit for redemption is thus defined by this section as a suit for enforcement of right to redeem, and that right of redeem consists of the three reliefs which the mortgagor is entitled to under clauses (a), (b) and (c) mentioned above, on payment or tender, at a proper date and place, of the mortgage money. Consequently, a suit can be said to be a suit for redemption if the three rights enumerated in this section as constituting the right to redeem are claimed in the suit, K. Manick Chand v. Elias Saleh Mohd Sait, AIR 1969 SC 751 (758): (1969) 1 SCC 206. (Transfer of Property Act, 1882, s. 60)...
Westminster, Statute of, 1931
Westminster, Statute of, 1931 922 Geo. 5, c. 4). This Act was passed to confirm and ratify certain declarations made by the delegates to the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930. Six Dominions are affected: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland. The arrangement is as follows:-S. 1. Meaning of 'Dominion' in this Act.S. 2. Validity of laws made by Parliament of a Dominion; the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made by the Parliament of a Dominion.S. 3. Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.S. 4. Parliament of United Kingdom not to legislate for 'Dominion' except by consent.S. 5. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to shipping.S. 6. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to Courts of Admiralty.S. 7. Saving for British North America Acts and application of Act to Canada.S. 8. Saving for Constitution Acts of Australia and New Zealand.S. 9. Saving with respect to State of Australi...
Income
Income, s. 4 of the Income-tax Act, defines the 'total income' to include all income, profits and gains from whatever source deprived. The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206, as a periodical monetary return coming in with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read with reference to the peculiar facts of that case. Money received 'under consequential loss policies, were income within the meaning of s. 2(6c) of the Income Tax Act, Raghuvanshi Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1953 SC 4: (1953) SCR 177.Income connotes a periodical monetary return 'coming in' with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity from definite sources, E.D. Sassoon and Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1954 SC 470: (1955) 1 SCR 313.The expression 'income' in entry 54 of List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Government of India Act, 1935, and the corresponding entry 82 of List 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Const...
Entertainment
Entertainment, In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 916) the word 'entertainment' has been defined thus:Entertainment ..... for a public or special occasion ...... is an entertainment in the sense of a gathering of persons for entertainment.Entertainment (Small Lotteries and Gaming Act, 1956) c. 45, s. 4(1) included a tombola drive alone without accompanying festivities.The monologue or patter of a comedian, even if delivered at an entertainment provided by an institution whose activities are parly educational, was held to be a variety 'entertainment' within the meaning of the section.Similarly in Words and Phrases, Judicially Defined (Vol. 2, pp. 206- 207) the word entertainment has been defined thus:Entertainment is something connected with the enjoyment of refreshment-rooms, tables, and the like. It is something beyond refreshment; it is the accommodation provided, whether that includes a musical or other amusement or not.Similarly in Words and Phrases (Permanent Ed...
Buyer
Buyer [fr. bycgan, bohte, A. S.; bygge, O. E.; to purchase for money] a purchaser. See CAVEAT EMPTOR.Means a person who buys or agrees to buy goods. [Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (3 of 1930), s. 2 (1)]Means whoever buys any goods or receives any services from a supplier for consideration. [Interest on Delayed Payments to Small Scale and Ancillary Industrial Undertakings Act, 1993 (32 of 1993), s. 2 (c)]--'Buyer' would mean where a person by virtue of the payment gets a right to receive specific goods and not where he is merely allowed/permitted to carry on business in that trade, Union of India v. Om Prakash S. S. and Co., AIR 2001 SC 1202: (2001) 3 SCC 593. [Income-tax Act (43 of 1961), s. 206(c)] Means any generating company or licensee or consumer whose system receives electricity from the system of generating company or licensee, Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters) Regulations, 2006, Reg. 2(h).Means whoever buys any goods or receives any services from a ...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Person
Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...
Tithe Rent-Charge
Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...
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