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Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
revenue stamp
revenue stamp : a stamp for use as evidence of a tax (as on a package of cigarettes, a proprietary article, or a mortgage or deed) : tax stamp ...
tax stamp
tax stamp : a stamp affixed to an item as evidence that a tax on it has been paid ;esp : one that the dealer of a controlled substance is required to purchase by payment of a tax according to a state law [an additional count of failure to purchase a tax stamp] ...
Adjudication stamp
Adjudication stamp, the stamp impressed on or affixed to an instrument after the Commissioners of Inland Revenues have been requested by any person under s. 12 of the Stamp Act, 1891, in a case of doubt, to assess the duty chargeable on any instrument. These is an appeal from this assessment to the High Court....
Fictitious stamp
Fictitious stamp, means any stamp falsely purporting to be issued by the government for the purposes of denoting a rate of postage, or any facsimile or imitation or representation, whether or paper or otherwise of any stamp issued by government for that purpose [Act (45 of 1860), s. 263A(3)]...
stamp
stamp : an official mark or seal set on something (as a deed) chargeable with a government or state duty or tax or on papers requiring execution under certain conditions to signify that the duty or tax has been paid or the condition fulfilled ;esp : revenue stamp ...
stamp tax
stamp tax : a tax collected by means of a stamp purchased and affixed (as to a deed) ...
Impressed stamp
Impressed stamp, includes--(a) labels affixed and impressed by the proper officer, and(b) stamps embossed or engraved on stamped paper. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (2 od 1899), s. 2 (13)]...
Postage stamp
Postage stamp, the expression means any stamp provided by the Central Government for denoting postage or other fees or sums payable in respect of postal articles under this Act, and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on any envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (g)]...
Stamp
Stamp, means a mark, which is made on, or in relation to, any weight or measure with a view to, (i) certifying that such weight or measure conforms to the standard specified by or under this Act, or (ii) indicating that any mark which was previously made thereon certifying that such weight or measure conforms to the standards by or under this Act, has been obliterated.Explanation,.--A stamp may be made by impressing, casting, engraving, etching, branding or any other process. [Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(y)]An official mark or seal placed on a document esp. to indicate that a required tax had been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1412....
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