1877 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Prison
Statutes, tit. 'Prison.' And for Scotland see the Prisons (Scotland) Acts, 1860 to 1909. The (English) Prison Act, 1877, transferred the management of prisons from counties and boroughs to the government, and put an end to the
Oysters
and a close time for oysters is provided by the Sea (English) Fisheries (Oyster, Crab, and Lobster) Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 42), being between 15th June and 4th August for 'deep sea oysters,' and
Name
Name [fr. nomen, Lat.; nom, Fr.; or namo, Goth.; nama, Sax.; naem, Dut.], the discriminative appellation of an individual. Proper names are either Christian names, as being given at baptism, or surnames, from the father, 4...
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Open space
Ramaswami Chettiar, 69 MLW 887: (1956) 2 MLJ 556 (DB). By the (English) Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s.
Obligation
religious, Hyderabad Stock Exchange Ltd. v. Rangnath Rathi and Co., AIR 1958 AP 43 (47). [Specific Relief Act, 1877, s. 54] Means 'a duty; the bond of legal necessity which binds together two or more determinate individuals.
Noisy nuisance
Noisy nuisance. An action may lie for a noisy nuisance, as by ringing bells, Soltau v. De Held, (1851) 2 Sim NS 133; user of stable, Ball v. Ray, (1873) LR 8 Ch 467; reprinting works,...
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of...
Mortgage
rate, with an abatement for punctual payment, may be made. The (English) Real Estate Charges Acts, 1854 and 1877 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 113, and 40 & 41 Vict. c. 34), together with the Act of
Malice
Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or aforethought. It is either express, as when one with a sedate and deliberate mind and formed...
Public health
and Child Welfare Act, 1918; Part I. of the Children Act, 1908, and consequential legislation; Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884; and many of the Public Health Acts (Water, 1878); (Fruit Pickers' Lodgings, 1882); (Ships, etc., 1885);
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