Agricultural Credits Acts, 1923 and 1928 (English) The 1923 Act to facilitate the advance of money and granting of credit for agricultural purposes and to amend the Improvement of Land Act, 1864. The Public Works Loans Commissioners are empowered to lend to associations money to be advanced upon mortgage to certain persons for the purpose of buying land for agricultural purposes. See the Act and the Agricultural Credits (Approved Associations) Regulations, 1923, and the Agricultural Credits (Advances to Credit Societies) Regulations, 1923. Under the Agricultural Credits Acts, 1928 and 1932, an agricultural loan company has been established for making long term loans, and also for short-term loans which may be charged on farming stock....
equal credit opportunity act A federal act prohibiting a creditor from discriminating against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex or marital status. (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1691) Source: FindLaw ...
fair credit reporting act federal act to ensure that credit bureaus are fair and accurate protecting the individual's privacy rights enacted in 1971 and revised in October 1997. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
equal credit opportunity act (ecoa) a federal law requiring lenders to make credit available equally without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, or receipt of income from public assistance programs. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Corporation Act (English), 13 Car. 2, s. 2, c. 1, by which no person could thereafter be elected to office in any corporate town who should not within one year previously have taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites of the Church of England.-An obligation to subscribe a declaration was substituted for the necessity of taking the Sacrament by 9 Geo. 4, c. 17,and the Corporation Act itself, with a body of similar Acts, was repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 48....
Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 10), a consolidating Act of similar scope to the last title and differing therefrom principally in respect of procedure. Slightly amended by13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 25....
corporation [Late Latin corporatio, from Latin corporare to form into a body, from corpor- corpus body] : an invisible, intangible, artificial creation of the law existing as a voluntary chartered association of individuals that has most of the rights and duties of natural persons but with perpetual existence and limited liability see also pierce compare association, partnership, sole proprietorship close corporation [klōs-] : a corporation whose shares are held by a small number of individuals (as management) and not publicly traded ;specif : small business corporation in this entry called also closely held corporation compare public corporation in this entry foreign corporation : a corporation organized under the laws of a state or government other than that in which it is doing business government corporation : public corporation in this entry moneyed corporation : a corporation (as a bank) authorized to engage in the investment, exchange, or lending of moneyed capit...
Agricultural produce, Sugar is 'Agricultural Produce', Kishan Lal v. State of Rajasthan, 1990 Supp SCC 742 (745): AIR 1990 SC 2569. [Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (38 of 1961), s. 2(1) (i)]The term 'agricultural produce' according to its definition contained under s. 2(a) of the Act means all produce, whether processed or not, of agricultural, horticulture, animal husbandry or forest as specified in the Schedule to the Act. Sheep-hair is consequently an agricultural produce within the meaning of the Act so that the various provisions therein with regard to agricultural produce are applicable to sheep-hair also, Modanlal Manoharlal v. State of Haryana, (1990) 1 SCC 184: AIR 1990 SC 556 (559). [Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (23 of 1961) s. 2(a)]See also Belsund Sugar Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1999) 9 SCC 620: AIR 1999 SC 3125. [Bihar Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1960 (16 of 1960) ss. 2(1)(a), 27 and 15]Agricultural produce includes food stuffs b...
Deposit Insurance Corporation, means the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation established under s. 3 of the Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, 1961. [The Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002, s. 3 (j); Also see The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, s. 2 (bvi); The Banking Regulation Act, 1949, s. 5 (ff)]...
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in respect of the improvements effected by him during his tenancy. The operation of this Act could be and frequently was excluded by agreement, but now the tenant cannot deprive himself by contract of the right to claim compensation which is conferred on him by the Act, although he may within limits substitute other benefits by agreement. The Act of 1923 (as amended by the Agricultural Holdings Amendment Act, 1923) repeals and consolidates all the earlier statutes dealing with the subject, and confers on outgoing tenants of 'holdings' the rights and benefits briefly outlined below. The term 'holding' means any parcel of land held by a tenant which is wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not le...