Consumer Protection Legislation for the District of Columbia: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First and Second Sessions ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 295 halaman Considers. S. 316 and similar S. 2589, to regulate D.C. retail installment sales of consumer goods and services, except motor vehicles. S. 2590, to establish maximum limitations on the amount of credit charges that may be made in retail installment sales and revolving charge accounts in D.C. S. 2592, to prohibit the enforcement of security interest in real property in D.C., except pursuant to court order. |
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advertising agreement amount annual percentage rate assigned Atlas attorney average bank bill BLUMENFELD BRYLAWSKI buyer cash Chairman Columbia Code Commissioner committee Congress consumer protection cost Council court customers deed of trust default Department of Consumer department stores disclosure District of Columbia effective annual rate Federal Trade Commission fees finance charges finance company foreclosure fraud gross margins hearing holder-in-due-course home improvement income installment credit interest judgment legislation loan low-income market retailers MARSALEK Maryland ment merchandise merchants Miss MYERS Monarch month MORGAN mortgage neighborhood paper payments percent person practices problem provisions purchase REED regulations repossession retail installment contract retail installment sales retail installment transactions salesman seller selling Senator TYDINGS signed sold statement subcommittee sumer television U.S. Senate unpaid balance Washington WILLIER
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Halaman 18 - ... or to give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Halaman 18 - Any person may be compelled to appear and depose and to produce documentary evidence in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce documentary evidence before the commission as hereinbefore provided.
Halaman 18 - Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the person taking the deposition, or under his direction, and shall then be subscribed by the deponent.
Halaman 106 - The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Halaman 18 - Act, or of any amendments thereto, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Halaman 2 - Goods" means tangible chattels bought for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, including certificates or coupons exchangeable for such goods, and including goods which, at the time of the sale or subsequently, are to be so affixed to real property as to become a part of such real property whether or not severable therefrom...
Halaman 63 - No contract for health studio services shall require or entail the execution of any note or series of notes by the buyer which when separately negotiated will cut off as to third parties any right of action or defense which the buyer may have against the seller.
Halaman 8 - A sale, lease, or rental of consumer goods or services with a purchase price of $25 or more, whether under single or multiple contracts, In which the seller or his representative personally solicits the sale, Including those In response to or following an Invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase Is made at a place other than the place of business of the seller. The term "door-todoor sale...
Halaman 20 - ... (1) Fees and charges prescribed by law which actually are or will be paid to public officials for determining the existence of or for perfecting or releasing or satisfying any security related to the credit transaction.
Halaman 29 - We cannot condemn too strongly appellee's conduct. It raises serious questions of sharp practice and irresponsible business dealings. A review of the legislation in the District of Columbia affecting retail sales and the pertinent decisions of the highest court in this jurisdiction disclose, however, no ground upon which this court can declare the contracts in question contrary to public policy. We note that were the Maryland Retail Installment Sales Act, Art.