Year, means a period commencing on 1st April and ending on 31st March next following. [Rajasthan Public Libraries Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]Means a year commencing on 1st day of April. [Equity Linked Savings Scheme, 2005, s. 2(g)][fr. gear, Sax.], 365 days, twelve calendar months, fifty-two weeks and one day, or in Leap Year (q.v.) 366 days, i.e., fifty-two weeks and two days.The first day of the year was legally altered for England from the 25th of March to 1st of January in and after 1752 by the Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 2, c. 23) (Chitty's Statutes, tit. ' Time '), but as appears from the preamble to that statute, the 1st of January had been the first day of the year in Scotland, in other nations, and by ' common usage throughout the whole kingdom.' See CALENDAR generally, when a statute speaks of a year it must be considered as twelve calendar and not lunar months, Bishop of Peterborough v. Catesby, 1608 Cro Jac 166.For the termination of the statutory year for certain finan...
Year accounting, s. 2 of the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 defines accounting year, Binny Ltd. v. Their Workmen, AIR 1973 SC 353: (1974) 3 SCC 27: (1972) 3 SCR 462....
Year and a day, means in computing year and a day after an event, the day on which the event happens is counted as the first day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary.Year and Day [annus et dies, Lat.], a time that deter-mines a right or works a prescription, etc., in many cases; see Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 254 b. A person wounded must die within a year and a day in order to make the offender guilty of murder: 3 Inst. 53; 6 Rep. 107; and see WRECK....
Year of allotment, the year of allotment of an Officer appointed to the service after the commencement of these rules shall be: (b) Where the officer is appointed to the service by promotion in accordance with sub-rule (1) of Rule 8 of the Recruitment Rules, the year of allotment of the junior most among the officers recruited to the service in accordance with Rule 7 of these rules, who officiated continuously in a Senior Post from a date earlier than the date of commencement of such officiation by the former. Provided that the year of allotment of an officer appointed to the service in accordance with sub-rule (1), Rule 8 of the recruitment rules who started officiating continuously in a senior post from a date earlier than the date on which any of the Officers recruited to the service in accordance with Rule 7 of these rules, so started officiating, shall be determined ad hoc by the Central Government in consultation with the State Government concerned. Provided further that an offic...
Year of the tenancy, 'a year of the tenancy' means a year or a period of 12 months according to the calendar of the specific tenancy, starting from its date of commencement or any anniversary thereof, Indian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. v. Baker Ali, AIR 1961 Cal 515 (518). [West Bengal Non-Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1949, s. 9(b)(iii)]...
Year previous, the expression 'previous year' in s. 2(6A)(c) of the Income Tax Act, 1922 was meant the financial year preceding the year in which liquidation took place, Dhandhania Kedia and Co. v. CIT, AIR 1959 SC 219 (222): (1959) Supp 1 SCR 204....
Year to year, in s. 17(d) of the Registration Act, 1908, would mean that it relates to a year according to the 'British Calender' and not according to vernacular calendar. If this position is accepted, the lease deed of immovable property, from year to year, would become compulsorily registrable, if it is for a British calendar year, and not for a vernacular year. The words 'yearly rent' will have to be interpreted in the same manner as the words 'year to year' are interpreted, viz., the yearly rent according to British and not vernacular calendar, Dimili Narayana v. Dimili Stayanarayan, (1975) 2 Andh WR 226: (1975) 1 APLJ 372: 1975 ALT 190....
Year to year, tenancy from. This estate arises either expressly, as when land is let from year to year, or by a general parol demise, without any deter-minate interest, but reserving the payment of an annual rent; or impliedly, as when property is occupied generally under a yearly rent, payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly; or when such tenant holds over, after the expiration of his term, without having entered into any new contract, and pays rent (before which he is a tenant on sufferance), and in such cases the tenant holds over on such terms of the old tenancy lease as are applicable to a tenancy from year to year and to the particular tenancy.The qualities which distinguish a tenancy from year to year from proper terms for years, and from estates at will, are (1) that it exists by construction of law alone instead of an estate at will in every instance where a possession is taken with the consent of the legal owner and where an annual rent has been paid, but without there havi...
Year, co-operative, a co-operative year means year commencing the first day of July and ending on 30th June of next following, Ziley Singh v. Registrar, Cane Co-operative Societies, AIR 1972 SC 758: (1972) 1 SCC 719 (723): (1972) 3 SCR 149. [U.P. Co-operative Societies Act, 1965 (11 of 1966)]...
Year, day and waste [annus, dies et vastum, Lat.], a part of the royal prerogative, whereby the Crown had for a year and a day the profits of land and tenements of those attainted of petit treason or felony, whosoever was lord of the manor whereto the lands or tenements belonged; and the right to cause waste to be made on the tenements by destroying the houses, ploughing up the meadows and pastures, rooting up the woods, etc. (unless the lord of the fee agreed for the redemption of such waste), afterwards restoring them to the lord of the fee. Staund. Pr'rog. 44. This prerogative was abolished by 54 Geo. 3, c. 145....