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Managing agent

person's trade or business, but does not include an individual manager subordinate to an employer. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (80 of 1923), s. 2 (1) (f)] Means a person, firm or company entitled to the management of

Merchant shipping

Shipping (Certificates) Act, 1914; Merchant Shipping (Salvage)Act, 1916; Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy)Act, 1919; Merchant Shipping Acts (Amendment) Act, 1923; Fees (Increase) Act, 1923; Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925; Merchant Shipping (Line Throwing Appliance) Act, 1928;

Minor

2 (cb)] It means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. 2 (1) (ff)] It means a person who has not attained the age of

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Munitions of war

and any other article, material or device, whether actual or proposed, intended for such use. [Official Secrets Act, 1923 (19 of 1923), s. 2 (5)]

Steam-pipe

millimeters in internal diameter and includes in either case any connected fitting of a streams pipe. [Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923), s. 2(f)]

Pasture

an improvement for which a tenant is entitled to compensation on quitting by the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923; and so is, though without any consent or notice, laying down temporary pasture with clover, grass, lucerne, sainfoin,

Public Authorities, Protection of

of the injury or damage, Hague v. Doncaster Rural Council, (1909) 100 LT 121; Brownlie v. Barrhead Magistrates, 1923, SC 915; and (2) costs as between solicitor an client if judgment given for defendant; and also (3)

Special constables

with the subject. By the (English) Special Constables Act, 1914, as amended by the (English) Special Constables Act, 1923, power is given to His Majesty by Order in Council to make regulations with respect to special constables.

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

directed, see R. v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Ex parte O'Brien, (1923) 2 KB 361 and 1923 AC 603. The House of Lords held, in this case, that no appeal lies from an order of

Structural alteration, addition or renewal

for replacement is not inferior in strength, efficiency of otherwise to the replaced part or fitting. [Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923), s. 2(g)]

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