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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 ...
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 ...
Building bye-law
Building bye-law, means bye-laws made under section 481 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 or the bye-laws made under section 188, sub-section (3) of section 189 and sub-section (1) of section 190 of Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, as in force in New Delhi or the regulations made under sub-section (1) of section 57 of the Delhi Development Act, 1957, relating to buildings, Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006, sec. 2(a)....
Quadruplicatio
Quadruplicatio [Lat.], a surrebutter, Civ. Law. See Colquhoun's Rom. Civ. Law, s. 2267.It means a defendant's pleading, following the triplication and similar to the rebutter at common law; the third defensive pleading. Also termed quadruplication, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1252....
Sovereignty
Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as applied to states implies 'Supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any state is governed, and which resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether monarchial, autocratic or democratic, Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201.Means the Supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific politi...
Ruling Chief
Ruling Chief, the expression 'Ruling Chief' has not been defined in the Act and must therefore by understood as in common parlance. The meaning of the word 'ruler' as given in Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1867 is: 'One who, or that which, exercise rule, especially of supreme or sovereign kind.' Normally the expression 'Ruling Chief' connotes 'a person who is endowed with the content of sovereignty and also has the attributes of a sovereign'. According to Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1252 (See now 7th Edn. P. 1402) the legal conception of 'sovereignty' is stated thus: The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority; paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power, from which all specific political powers are derived; the international independence of a state, combined with the right and power of reg...
Qu' est eadem
Qu' est eadem (which is the same). In trespass and other actions, when the plea necessarily stated the trespass to have been committed at some other time, place, etc., than that laid in the declaration, it was usual, before the conclusion of the plea, to allege, that the supposed trespasses mentioned in the plea were the same as those whereof the plaintiff had complained. This allegation was usually termed qu' est eadem. It was equivalent to a traverse of the time and place named in the declaration, 1 Chit. Pleading, 581.It means which is the same. This phrase was used by a defendant in a trespass action to show that the trespass the defendant was justified in committing was the same as that alleged in the plaintiff's pleading, that is, the plaintiff gave the defendant permission to enter, and so the defendant entered the property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1252....
Persons
Persons, the expression 'persons' undoubtedly includes natural persons. The class of such taxable persons has been indicated by the Legislature with reference to their occupational activity. Thus, in order to be authorised, a tax under cl. (b) of s. 61(1) must satisfy two conditions: First, it must be a tax on 'persons', Second, such persons must be practising any profession or art or carrying on any trade or calling in the municipality, Munshi Ram v. Municipal Committee, AIR 1979 SC 1250 (1252): (1979) 3 SCC 83: (1979) 3 SCR 463....
Quadruplator
Quadruplator, means an informer who, by law, could institute criminal proceedings that would result in a four-fold penalty and then receive a reward for doing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1252...
Quadriennium utile
Quadriennium utile, means a four-year period after the attainment of majority within which the young adult may seek to annul any contract under seal made while the person was a minor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1252.The term of four years allowed to a minor after his majority, in which he might by suit or action endeavour to annul any deed to his prejudice granted during his minority, Bell's Scots Law Dict....
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