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Highways

Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50),...

Income-tax

tit. 'Property Tax.' The tax in 1842, and for many years afterwards, was 7d. in the pound; in 1855,, the year of the Crime an War, it rose to 1s. 4d., and in 1918 to 6s. The

Inns of Chancery

they were admitted into the Inns of Court. See 3 Rep., Pref., p. 18; Report of Royal Commission, 1855. The Inns of Court from time to time agree on certain 'Consolidated Regulations,' as to the admission of

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Metropolitan Board of Works

Metropolitan Board of Works, a board constituted in 1855 by 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, and elected by vestries and district boards, who in their turn

Leave to defend

Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months

Libraries (Public)

Libraries (Public). The (English) Public Libraries Acts, 1855-1890, authorised the establishment, at the expense of the ratepayers, of free public libraries in municipal boroughs, Improvement Act

Education

as amounting to education, Haji Ismail Valid Mohmad v. Sports Club, (1992) 1 SCC 315: AIR 1992 SC 1855 (1857). [Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 1947 (57 of 1947), s. 6(1)] We

Metropolitan District

Local Government Act, 1888, by the London County Council), enumerated in Schedules A,B,C, to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855.

Official trustee of charity lands

for taking and holding charity lands: see (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, s. 49; Charitable Trusts Amendment Act, 1855, s. 15.

Official trustees of charitable funds

and securities belonging to charities: see (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, s. 51; (English) Charitable Trusts Amendment Act, 1855, s. 18; (English) Charitable Trusts Act, 1887, s. 4.

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