Court : Karnataka
Reported in : AIR1965Kant227; AIR1965Mys227; (1964)2MysLJ211
..... if the contention of the respondents is correct, then that sub-section should have read:'every person whose name is in the list of voters shall, unless disqualified under this act or any other law for the time being in force, be qualified to vote, and every person whose name is not in such list shall not be qualified to vote at the election of a member of the ward ..... . among them may be mentioned the poor law amendment act, 1834, the municipal corporations act of 1835.in 1933 there was enacted the local government act (23 &24 geo. ..... .(46) my learned brother has stated that the interpretation suggested by him is in accord with what he calls the general pattern of election law in this country, and refers to the position as under the representation of the people act, 1951, and statutes relating to municipalities or local bodies in madras and ..... (1) every person whose name is in the list of voters referred to in section 11 shall, unless disqualified under this act or any other law for the time being in force, be qualified to vote, and every person whose name is not in such list shall not be qualified to vote, at the election of a member for the ward to which such list pertains ..... (2) 'every person whose name is in the list of voters shall', unless disqualified under this act, or any other law for the time being in force, be qualified to be elected, and every person whose name is not in such list shall not be 'qualified to be elected, at the election for any ward of the municipal borough .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : (1902)12MLJ208
..... of the said company within the dominion of princes and states in alliance with the said company; save and except that the said governor general in council shall not have the power of making any laws or regulations which shall in any way repeal, vary, suspend or affect any of the provisions of this act or any of the provisions of the acts, for punishing mutiny and desertion of officers ..... of trying to interpret section 341 of madras act i of 1884, 'by roaming over a vast number of authorities in order to discover, by a minute and critical examination,' what the case law in england is as to the exemption of the crown from the payment of tolls, poor-rates and other taxes imposed by statutes--a course deprecated by lords herschell and macnaghten in the cases above referred to,--it will certainly be much safer to interpret the section with reference to the course ..... it has been pointed out that in, the scottish poor law, half the poor-rate is imposed on the owner in respect of property, and so far the case is more closely analogous to that of the income-tax; but, i think, that whether the rate is eligible in respect of property or in respect ..... on the scotch poor law proceed on a ..... the english law as to the exemption of the crown and crown property from payment of tolls, poor-rates and other taxes, local or imperial, imposed by statutes rests partly upon historical reasons and principally upon judicial decisions which do not proceed upon a course of reasoning or principle which will .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Reported in : (1885)ILR9Bom40
..... section 31) for the prosecution of idle persons neglecting to provide for their families; but the power to prosecute them was given to the guardians of the poor of the several parishes, town-bhips and places where the delinquents or neglectors resided, and the justices competent to try them were the justices having local ..... 344 it was held that the order for relief must be made by the justices of the county where the person liable to maintain his relation or poor person dwelt, and that if a child to be supported lived in the county of middlesex and was maintained by the parish there and the person bound to support him lived in the county of suffolk, ..... , blind, lame and impotent person not able to work, being of a sufficient ability, shall at their own, charges relieve and maintain every such poor person in that manner, and according to that rate, as by the justices of peace of that county where such sufficient persons dwell, or the greater number of them, at their general quarter sessions ..... jurisdiction of the justices within a certain local area so far as the persons against whom they were authorised to pass, orders for maintenance may be compared the poor law amendment act (7 and 8 vic., c. ..... 4 section 78 of which provided that the sums payable under the statute of elizabeth by relations of poor persons should be recoverable against every person assessed or charged with them by the justices of the peace in like manner as penalties and forfeitures were recoverable under the provisions .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
Reported in : AIR1995Kant290; 1996(6)KarLJ464
..... have tried to illustrate the same by further asserting as under :'the doctor, who gives evidence in the rape case says that rape has taken place on the victim girl by that poor law student depicted by name as krishna and the very same doctor in the other case is shown to have stated him to be an impotent. ..... , both the persons are able to get conflicting judgments in one case the poor law student is held to be impotent, while, in another case on the same evidence, court hold him guilty of rape, and finally scene of the he buffalo ..... thecases filed against the poor law student by one of the two advocate fathers is based on allegations of rape alleged to have been committed by the poor law student on his daughter. ..... the petitioners state that the story of the film begins from law college environment, where a poor brilliant law college student is prosecuting his studies, who becomes victim of the circumstances by intervention of the two lady students and their respective fathers, who are depicted to be the leading advocates practising mainly on the ..... girls are shown to be law students and they fall in love with their college mate one krishna, who is also a poor law ..... by the petitioners that it has been depicted in the picture that for the sake of the daughters and their selfish motive of getting that poor but meritorious law student married, they made hectic efforts in that regard by filing two false cases which are mainly hosted against the said poor student for their oblique motives. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : (1902)ILR25Mad457
..... are dealt with in treatises under the head of 'prerogatives of the crown' and also loosely referred to as such in some english decisions;(v) the english law as to the exemption of the crown and crown property from payment of tolls, poor-rates and other taxes, local or imperial, imposed by statutes rests partly upon historical reasons and principally upon judicial decisions which do not proceed upon a ..... since the passing of the indian councils act, 1861, not only the viceregal council but also the provincial councils can, without obtaining the previous sanction of the crown, make laws affecting the prerogatives of the crown, when such prerogatives have no relation to any of the matters specially exempted from their respective legislative jurisdictions;(viii) even if the imposition of a ..... interpret section 341 of madras act i of 1884, 'by roaming over a vast number of authorities in order to discover by a minute and critical examination' what the case law in england is as to the exemption of the crown from the payment of tolls, poor-rates and other taxes imposed by statutes--a course deprecated by lords herschell and macnaghten in the cases above referred to,--it will certainly be much safer to interpret the section with reference ..... it has been pointed out that in the scottish poor law, half the poor-rate is imposed on the owner in respect of property, and so far the case is more closely analogous to that of the income-tax; but, i think, that whether the rate is exigible in ..... poor law .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kerala
Reported in : AIR2003Ker312; 2003(4)CTC193; (2004)186CTR(Ker)172; I(2004)DMC148; 2003(3)KLT6
..... of the women is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs every thing; and is therefore called in our law-frech a feme-covert, foemina virro co-operta; is said to be covert-baron or under the protectionand influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is calledthe coverture.i do ..... higginbotham in 'the work house and poor laws' points out that the emphasis of the 'poor laws' was that the 'parishes would rescue destitute people ..... it was inter-alia provided that 'the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old, blind, lame and impotent person or other poor person not able to work, being of a sufficient ability, shall, at their own charges, relieve and maintain every such poor person in that manner, and according to that rate, as by the justices of peace of that country where such sufficient ..... for children as deficient in capacity for self-provision and self-protection and self-guidance is manifest at many points in modern law: for instance, in the prohibition of child labour; the principle in adoption and matrimonial proceedings of paramountcy of the welfare of ..... the poor law, there is no actual legal obligation oh a father or mother to maintain a child unless the neglect to do so would bring the case within the criminal law. ..... maintenance of children arose under the poor law legislation. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : (1932)62MLJ77
..... the commentators on the act point out that there is no provision in the section as in the poor law amendment act of 1866--for holding an extraordinary audit and state that the local government board consistently refused to allow such an audit. ..... four years later, in 1866, the poor law amendment act empowered the poor law board to require an auditor to hold an extraordinary audit, which was to be deemed to be an audit 'within the meaning of the several acts relating to the audit of the accounts of the poor rate. ..... an attempt was made to force a poor law auditor to re-open the audits of the six previous years. ..... there is a case under the poor law act that dates back to 1862, reg v. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1932Mad90
..... the commentators on the act point out that there is no provision in the section as in the poor law amendment act of 1866, for holding an extraordinary audit and state that the local government board consistently refused to allow such an audit. ..... four years later, in 1866, the poor law amendment act empowered the poor law board to require an auditor to hold an extraordinary audit, which was to be deemed to be an auditwithin the meaning of the several acts relating to the audit of the accounts of the poor rate.6. ..... an attempt was made to force a poor law auditor to reopen the audits of the six previous years. ..... there is a case under the poor law act that dates back to 1862, reg v. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1967Mad77; 1967CriLJ205
..... neglects, abandons, or exposes or causes to be neglected, abandoned, or exposed an infant under the age of sixteen in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health commits an offence.....under the old poor law the father and the mother, after the death of the father, and also the grandfather and grandmother, if able to do so, were bound to maintain a child, who could not support himself. ..... 101 which gave a right to a woman either before or after the birth of her illegitimate child to apply for an order against the father and it has been held that the origin of this law is the prevention of vagrancy.....i am therefore strongly inclined to think that the words 'unable to maintain itself' cannot be confined as suggested to the tender age of the child but must also have ..... cannot lose sight of the fact that the object of introducing this provision in the criminal procedure code was prevention of vagrancy on the analogy of the poor laws and bastardy acts in the united kingdom. ..... in simpson on the laws of infants, 4th edn, at page 121, it is stated:'a series of statutes, generally known as the poor laws, has been passed to enforce some ..... 'the term has a second well understood meaning irrespective of parentage, and imports minority, infancy, of the early years of life..........in laws for the protection of children, the term 'child' means generally the young under the age of puberty and in this age sense the word has been defined as meaning an infant, a young person, .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : (1966)2MLJ506
..... causes to be neglected, abandoned or exposed an infant under the age of sixteen in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health commits an offence...under the old poor law the father and the mother, after the death of the father, and also the grandfather and grandmother, if able to do so, were bound to maintain a child who could not support ..... 14, page 1109, giving the meaning of the word 'child':the term has a second well-understood meaning, irrespective of parentage, and imports minority, infancy, or the early years of life...in laws for the protection of children, the term 'child' means generally the young under the age of puberty and in this age sense the word has been defined as meaning an infant, a young ..... before the additional first glass magistrate, madurai, under section 488(1)1 criminal procedure code, comes before us, as the matter has been referred to a bench in view of the conflict of caser-law and marked divergence of opinion between various high courts and even in decisions of the same high court on the question whether the word 'child' in section 488(1), criminal procedure code, in ..... the object of introducing this provision in the criminal procedure code was prevention of vagrancy on the analogy of the poor laws and bastardy acts in the united kingdom. ..... in simpson on the law of infants, 4th edition, at page 121, it is stated:a series of statutes, generally known as the poor laws, has been passed to enforce to some extent the obligations .....
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