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One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping...
Pawner or Pawnor
Pawner or Pawnor, the person depositing a pawn. See Pawn.The bailment of goods as security for payment of a debt or performance of a promise is called pledge. The bailor is in this case called 'pawnor' Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), s. 172]...
Registration of title of land
Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), with amendments in keeping with innovations which were introduced by the property laws of 1925. Its object is to simplify the indicia of land ownership and transfer by mere inscription and transcription in a register. The advantages which are claimed for the system are (a) purchasers for value of an absolute or good leasehold title are absolved from any inquiry into the title other than it is shown to be on the register; (b) certain equitable claims which would be binding on the land under the general law and cannot be removed or over-reached without onerous formalities do not affect such purchasers; (c) the method of conveyance or charge is simple; (d) subject to the statutory provisions, registration guarantees the title to purchasers for value and mortgagees. It should be observ...
Ring-dropping
Ring-dropping, a trick variously practised. One mode is as follows, the circumstances being taken from Patch's case, 2 East, P.C. 678:-The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretends to find a ring wrapt in paper, appearing to be a jeweller's receipt for a 'rich brilliant diamond ring.' They offer to leave the ring with the victim if he will deposit some money and his watch as a security. He lays his watch and money, is beckoned out of the room by one of the confederates, while the others take away his watch, etc. This is a larceny. See further 2 Russ. On Cr....
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
bond
bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...
Mortgage
Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor.A mortgage is the creation of an interest in property, defeasible (i.e., annullable) upon performing the condition of paying a given sum of money, with interest thereon, at a certain time. This conditional assurance is resorted to when a debt has been incurred, or a loan of money or credit effected, in order to secure either the repayment of the one or the liquidation of the other. the debtor, or borrower, is then the mortgagor, who has charged or transferred his property in favour of or to the creditor or lender, who thus becomes the mortgagee. If the mortgagor pay the debtor loan and interest within the time mentioned in a clause technically called the proviso for redemption, he will be entitled to have his property again free from the mortgagee's claim; but should he not comply with such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so los...
Savings banks
Savings banks, institutions for the safe custody and increase of the small savings of the poor. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Savings Banks.' They are: (1) Trustee; (2) Post Office; (3) Military; (4) Statutory; (5) Uncontrolled.(1) Trustee Savings Banks are regulated by a long series of Acts (the Trustee Savings Banks Acts, 1861 to 1934), which provide that they must not be described in a manner which implies that the Government is responsible to depositors, that the money received must be paid to the Bank of England or Ireland and carried to an account kept in the names of the National Debt Commissioners, and that annual accounts must be sent to the Commissioners. An 'Inspection Committee,' estab-lished under the Savings Bank Act, 1891, has extensive powers of supervision for the purpose of detecting any breaches of the Acts or rules regulating a bank. Deposits by any depositor in more than one Trustee Savings Bank is prohibited, and the Treasury have power to limit the amount from one...
loan
loan 1 a : money lent at interest b : something lent usually for the borrower's temporary use 2 : a transfer or delivery of money from one party to another with the express or implied agreement that the sum will be repaid regardless of contingency and usually with interest ;broadly : the furnishing of something to another party for temporary use with the agreement that it or its equivalent will be returned [the leasing of the vehicle was termed a subject to usury statutes] bridge loan : a short-term loan used as a means of financing a purchase or enterprise prior to obtaining other funds [used a bridge loan to purchase a new home prior to the sale of their previous one] con·ven·tion·al loan [kən-ven-chə-nəl-] : a loan for the purchase of real property that is secured by a first mortgage on the property rather than by any federal agency demand loan : a loan that is subject to repayment upon demand of the lender home equity loan : a loan or line o...
contract
contract [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com- with, together + trahere to draw] 1 : an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to do or not do something and a right to performance of the other's duty or a remedy for the breach of the other's duty ;also : a document embodying such an agreement see also accept, bargain, breach, cause, consent, consideration, duty, meeting of the minds, obligation, offer, performance, promise, rescind, social contract, subcontract Uniform Commercial Code in the Important Laws section NOTE: Contracts must be made by parties with the necessary capacity (as age or mental soundness) and must have a lawful, not criminal, object. Except in Louisiana, a valid contract also requires consideration, mutuality of obligations, and a meeting of the minds. In Louisiana, a valid contract requires the consent of the parties and a cause for the contract in addition to c...
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