1910 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Service line
transformer is not a part and parcel of the 'service line', AIR 1977 All 499 (502). [Electricity Act, 1910, s. 2(1)] Means any electric supply-line through which electricity is, or is intended to be, supplied, (a) to
Sessions of the peace
sessions required bylaw to e held at particular periods, as bys. 10 of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, a general annual licensing meeting within the irst fourteen days of February, for licensing alehouses and victualling-houses to
Settlement estate duty
one person to another not competent to dispose of it. The rate was by the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, s. 54, two percent., and the further estate duty, or 'settlement estate duty,' was levied on the principal
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Sheep
Sheep, injury to, by dogs, action for, under the Dogs Act, 1906, and the Amendment Act of 1928. See DOG. As to cruelty by allowing them to become infested with maggots, see Potter v. Challans, (1910)...
Six day licence
respect of which it is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday-granted under Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, s. 58.
Inland revenue
Inland revenue. That portion (by far the largest) of the public revenue (which is derived from the taxation of home commodities and duties on property and income, houses, stamps, probates, legacies, etc., as distinguished from the...
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided...
Clubs
a system of registration of the clubs under ss. 91 to 98 of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), by s. 91 of which the secretary of every
Character
Character. Witnesses to speak to the good character of a prisoner may be called by him in his defence, and, if they speak to nothing else, it is the custom that the counsel for the prosecution...
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