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History-ticket, 'history-ticket' means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the rules thereunder. [Prisons Act, 1894 (9 of 1894), s. 3(6)]...
Ticket
Ticket, as a printed card or a piece of paper that gives a person a specific rights, as to attend a theatre, ride on a train, claim or purchase, etc. Webster's Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 25A.For a railway passenger not to produce a railway ticket on request by an officer or servant of a railway company, or to pay his fare from the place when he started, or to give the officer or servant his name and address, is summarily punishable by fine up to 40s. See FARE.A certificate indicating that the person to whom it is issued, or holder, is entitled to some right or privilege....
Commutation ticket
A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance as increase of travel specif a ticket for a certain number of or for daily trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb 4 1887 24 Stat 379 and in 145 U S 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being ldquoobviously within the commuting principlerdquo...
Passing-ticket
Passing-ticket, a kind of permit, being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals given to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have paid toll....
Tyburn ticket
Tyburn ticket, a certificate which was given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction....
Tickets
Tickets, of course are only the tokens of the chance purchased, and it is the purchase of this chance which is the essence of a lottery, Madras High Court in Sesha Ayyar v. Krishna Ayyar, AIR 1936 Mad 225: ILR 59 Mad 562 (FB)....
Tickets of leave
Tickets of leave, licences to be at large granted to convicts for good conduct, but recallable upon subsequent misconduct. See the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, and Penal Servitude Acts of 1864 and 1891....
Pawnbroker
Pawnbroker, contemplates that every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of goods or chattels and who purchases goods or chattels and pays or advances thereon any sum of money, with or under an agreement or understanding expressed or implied that the goods or chattel may be afterwards repurchased on any terms, is a 'pawnbroker', Karnataka Pawnbrokers' Assn. v. State of Karnataka, (1998) 7 SCC 707.One who lends money on goods which he receives upon pledge.The rate of interest which pawnbrokers may take has been fixed by law since 1800, by 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 48, which Act placed their whole business under various other restrictions. By the (English) Pawn-brokers Act, 1872 (which applies to Scotland, but not to Ireland), this Act, together with its amending Acts, is repealed, and the statute law of the subject consolidated. Sch. IV., dealing with profits and charges, has been amended by the (English) Pawnbrokers Act, 1922, in respect of loans not exceeding 40s.By s. 5 of the A...
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Lotto
A game of chance played with cards or tickets on which are inscribed numbers and any contrivance as a wheel containing numbered balls for determining a set of numbers by chance The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer In some systems lesser prizes are awarded for having some but not all of the numbers selected such as four or five numbers in a six number drawing A variety of lotto is called keno In another variety the player chooses the numbers for the card or ticket she holds There may be from three to seven different numbers on a card or ticket In a modern computerized lotto system conducted by state authorities the player chooses numbers or allows the computer to choose numbers at random which are then printed on a ticket that the player holds until the winning number is selected...
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