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Electric lighting

as the (English) Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1882-1933. The (English) Act of 1919, as amended by the Act of 1922, provided for the appointment of Electricity Commissioners for promoting, regulating and supervising the supply of electricity. The Act

Abusing children

Vict. C. 100, ss. 50, 51, which fixed lesser ages as above. The (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 56), amends the Act of 1885, so that in the case of

False pretence, obtaining property

False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916,...

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Free-bench

of the widow. Free-bench was abolished in connection with enfranchised land by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, 12th Sched., but it survives if the husband died before 1926; in regard to lands enfranchised under the

Other person liable to pay

statute, Sahu Rajeshwar Nath v. ITO, AIR 1969 SC 667 (669): (1969) 1 SCR 999. (Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 29)

Navy

30 Vict. c. 109), as amended by the (English) Naval Discipline Acts, 1884, 1909, 1915 (2), 1917, and 1922. See Chit. Stat., tit. 'Navy.' As to the self-governing Colonies, see the (English) Naval Discipline (Dominion Naval Forces)

Necessaries

Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and varying with the state and degree, the rank, fortune, and age of...

Negligence

Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform...

Not involving the carrying on of any activity of profit

'not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit' in the present definition over that in the 1922 Act in order to bring a case within the fourth category of charitable purpose, it would be necessary

Oath

taken by members of the Parliament of the Irish Free State, see the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act, 1922, Sched., art. 4. The real purpose of the oath is that the person concerned must give an undertaking

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