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House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Company
Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled a Joint Stock Company.A company has its origin either (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with which, as authorizing an undertaking of a public nature such as a railway, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), is necessarily incorporated; or (3) in registration under the Companies Acts, 1862 and subsequent Acts, now consolidated into the (English) Companies Act, 1925 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23).By s. 13 of the Act of 1925 (1) on the registration of the memorandum of a company the registrar shall certify under his hand that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the company is limited. (2) From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificat...
Bill in Parliament
Bill in Parliament, is either (1) public, affecting the countries of England, Scotland, or Ireland generally, or a very important part of them, as London; (2) local and personal, affecting particular areas only, as railway construction bills, water or gas supply bills, etc.; or (3) private, as bills settling estate, divorce bills (rendered generally unnecessary by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857), and naturalization bills.All three kinds formerly required the assent of Sovereign, Lords, and Commons, but the assent of the House of Lords can now be dispensed with in the case of bills passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911; and by the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913 (3 Geo. 5, c. 3), resolution passed by a Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Commons varying or renewing taxation has for a limited period the same statutory effect as if contained in an Act of Parliament. In the case of local and personal bills and private bills the prom...
House of Lords
House of Lords, a constituent part of Parliament, being composed of the lords spiritual and temporal.The upper chambers of British parliament, of which the 11 member judicial committee provides judge who serve as the final court of appeal in most civil cases, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The lords temporal are dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons. The number of British peerages of different ranks has been greatly augmented from time to time, and there is no limitation to the power of the Crown to add to it by fresh creation.The lords temporal consist of: (1) peers of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain, and of England; (2) the representative peers of Scotland and Ireland; (3) life peers, i.e., Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The Lord High Chancellor presides.Bankrupts are disqualified from sitting or voting by s. 32 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883.The assent of the House of Lords was formerly essential to the passing of any act of Parliament, but its powers in this respect had b...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Repeal
Repeal, a revocation or abrogation. Repeal of one act of Parliament by another is either express or implied, the rule being that a later Act repeals a former one if contradictory thereto, Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant. By s. 11 of the Inter-pretation Act, 1889, re-enacting s. 5 of Lord Brougham's Act (13 Vict. c. 21), where an Act passed after 1850 repeals a repealing enactment, it does not revive any enactment previously repealed. And by s. 38 of the same Act, where any Act passed after January 1st, 1890, repeals and re-enacts any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed are to be construed as references to the provisions so re-enacted, as had been already specially provided in the consolidating Public Health Act, 1875, by s. 313, and Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, by s. 102, and see R. v. Minister of Health, Ex p. Villiers, (1936) 2 KB 29.Abrogation of an existing law by legislative act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p...
Colony
Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
Rules of Court
Rules of Court, orders regulating the practice of the Courts; or orders made between parties to an action or suit.(1) General rules regulating the practice of the Courts, both of Common Law and Equity, have from time to time been made by the Courts in pursuance of the powers of various Acts of Parliament. See as to the Common Law Courts, which promulgated consecutive Rules without any division into Orders, Day's Common Law Procedure Acts; and as to the Court of Chancery, which promulgated Orders subdivided into Rules, Morgan's Chancery Acts and Orders. The scheme of the Chancery Procedure Acts was that the Orders made thereunder should come into force as soon as made, subject to the power of Parliament to annul them afterwards (see, e.g., Chancery Procedure Act, 1858, s. 12), while that of the Common Law Procedure Acts, was that Rules made thereunder should not come into force until they had lain before Parliament for three months (see 13 & 14 Vict. c. 16, and Common Law Procedure Act,...
Parliament, the Imperial
Parliament, the Imperial. Formerly the Legislature of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, now, by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 (17 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 2, styled the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (Southern Ireland or the Irish Free State having gotten the status of a 'Dominion,' see IRELAND), consisting of the King, and the three estates of the Realm, i.e., the lords spiritual and temporal (called the House of Lords or Upper House of Parliament), and the persons elected by the people (called the House of Commons, or Lower, or Nether House of Parlia-ment). Under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67), s. 19 (a), and Sch. 5, Part II., as amended by 13 Geo. 5, sess. 2, c. 2, s. 1, 13 members are returned to the House of Commons in the Imperial Parliament by Northern Ireland, and the Irish Free State is excluded. Until the reign of Henry the Fourth both Houses sat together. See 4 Inst. P. 5.The word is...
Money of account, money of measurement money of payment
Money Bill, cannot be introduced in the Council of States. [Constitution of India, Art. 109(1)]Money Bill, cannot be referred to Joint Committee, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 74.Money Bill, in India, the Speaker endorses certificate on Money Bill, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 96.Money Bill, is a Bill which contains only provisions dealing with the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration or regulation of taxation etc., Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 806.Money Bill, on a Bill being introduced in the Council at a subsequent stage if an objection is taken that the Bill is a Money Bill, the Chairman shall, if he holds the objects valid, direct the termination of further proceeding of the Bill. If Chairman is doubtful regarding the validity of the objection, he shall refer the matter to the Speaker whose decision on the matter shall be final, Rules of Procedure and Cond...
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