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Owner consignee

SC 92 (96): (1988) 1 SCC 142. [Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, s. 2(o); Bombay Port Trust Act, 1879, s. 3(5)]

Outlawry

has long been obsolete in civil proceedings, and is formally abolished by the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 59), in civil proceedings. In criminal proceedings it is practically disused, but is

Officers of the Supreme Court

divisions which represented the courts of which they were formerly officers; and by the (English) Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 78), they were transferred to the Central Office of the Supreme Court. See,

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Occupation

Occupation, also is employed as referring to that which occupies time and attention; a calling; or a trade; and it is only as employed in this sense that the word is discussed in the following paragraphs....

Negative

etc., may be proved by the defendant, but need not be negatived in the information, Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, s. 39 (2); 1 Phil. Evid. c. vii., s. 4. [Or. 14, r. 6, CPC].

Registration for preservation

the army and their families is regulated by the (English) Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 8); and see BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.

Mutiny Act

Mutiny Act, a statute (English) annually passed from 1689 to 1879, 'to punish mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.' See ARMY

Mitigation

or private Act of Parliament; but this Act is repealed, as to England, by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, which gives an al-most unlimited power of mitigating such penalties as may be imposed by justices. See also

Record and Writ Clerks

of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, and made 'masters' thereof by s. 8 of the Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879. See now (English) Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 104-106.

Sessions of the peace

the (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933, which substitutes a new s. 31 for the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879. As to the administrative business of quarter sessions, transferred to the county councils by the (English) Local Government

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