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Conveyancing Acts (English). See LAW OF PRO-PERTY. These Acts, of which the principal were the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), the C. Act, 1881, as amended by the Acts of 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 39), 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 13), 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 37), were all repealed, and partly replaced and extended by the Law of Property Act, 1925. The Conveyancing Act, 1881, was a simplifying and Codifying Act introduced by Lord Cairns. It embodied the provisions of previous statutes, the effect of legal decisions, and the practice of conveyancers much of which had already been crystallized in common form. Some of the old forms were very lengthy, and required to be inserted with or without modification in every important conveyance of land. The Act of 1881 related inter alia to contracts, conveyances, mortgages, leases, dispositions by married women, or on behalf of infants or other persons under incapacity....
Town Police Clauses Acts, 1847
Town Police Clauses Acts, 1847 (English) (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), and 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 14). Adoptive Acts. The Act of 1847 related to obstructions and nuisances in streets, fires, places of public resort, hackney carriages, and public bathing and other matters for the order and good government of towns and other districts. The Act of 1847 is still in force as amended; the Act of 1889 was repealed by the Road Traffic Act, 1930; see also Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1936, and Road Traffic Acts, 1930 to 1934....
Sturges Bourne's Acts
Sturges Bourne's Acts. (English) (1) 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, the Vestries Act, 1818 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by the Local Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were enabled to commit the management of its poor to a committee of the parishioners appointed for that purpose and called a 'select vestry,' to whose orders the overseers were bound to conform (this portion of the Act, being superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, is repealed by the Statute Laws Revision Act, 1873). See now Poor Law Act, 1930, and POOR LAW....
Statute Law Revision Acts
Statute Law Revision Acts. A number of general Acts were passed from the year 1861 to 1927 inclusive, for the purpose of expressly and specifically repealing Acts or parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, or which (see the preambles to the various Acts) 'might be regarded as spent, or had by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary' from various causes, or had become obsolete, and also partly with the view of clearing the way for two editions of 'Statutes Revised,' that is, statutes in force only, as distinguished from the 'Statutes at Large,' or statutes just as they are passed. In 1890, as explained in an Introductory Note to vol. 4 of the 2nd edition of the Revised Statutes, a Select Committee of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the omission from the Revised Statutes of 'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or in...
Reform Acts
Reform Acts (English) [2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 45 (1832), 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 (1867)], commonly called the (English) Representation of the People Acts; and the Representation of the People Act, 1884 (48 Vict. c. 3): Acts for extending the parliamentary franchise. The Acts of 1832 and 1867 applied to England and Wales only, there being separate Acts for Scotland and Ireland at the same period; the Act of 1884 applied to Scotland and Ireland as well. See now Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 64) (England, Wales and Scotland)....
Dissenters Chapels Act
Dissenters Chapels Act (7 & 8 Vict. c. 45), (statutory title, 'The (English) Nonconformist Chapels Act, 1844'), an Act passed in 1844 for the relief of Unitarians, though it applies to Nonconformists of every description. Its effect is to exclude, by a special law of limitation made for that express purpose, all inquiry into the conformity or otherwise of the doctrines taught or ritual practised in any chapel or meeting-house of any Non-conformist body, or the intentions of the founders by whom the building or its accessories or endowments were given, when such doctrines have been taught there, or such ritual practised, for the last twenty-five years; unless they are, in express terms, prohibited or excluded by some written instrument governing the foundation. The Act was passed inconsequence of the decision in what is commonly known as 'Lady Hewley's Case', Shore v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&F 355, in which it was held by the House of Lords that Unitarian congregations, inspite of long and ...
Judicial Act
Judicial Act, the duties of the Election Officer certainly fit in with the aforesaid definition. He has legal authority to decide on the objections raised by the candidate. The question decided by him affects the rights of the parties, and in deciding the objections raised he hears the parties and may also make an enquiry and, therefore, he has a duty to act judicially, Bandi Visweswara Rao v. Deputy Panchayat Officer, AIR 1957 AP 539.A Judicial act seems to be an act done by a competent authority upon a consideration of facts and circumstances and imposing liability or affecting the rights of others. It must be that of a person or persons who have legal authority to determine questions affecting the rights of parties and in a judicial manner, Kalavagunta Sriramarao v. Kalavagunta Suryanarayanamurthi, AIR 1954 Mad 340.Numerous statutes give summary power to justices of the peace, and declare that certain acts shall only be valid if done by two Magistrates. If it be only a ministerial a...
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter.Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), any one of the following acts of a debtor is an act of bankruptcy:-(a) Having made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally.(b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof.(c) Having made a conveyance amounting to a 'fradulent preference.'(d) Having, with intent to defeat or delay his creditors, departed out of England, or being out of England, remained out of England; or having absented himself; or begun to keep house.(e) If execution against him has been levied by seizure of his goods under process in any Court or in any civil proceeding in the High Court, and the goods have been either sold or held by the sheriff for 21 days:Provided that where an interpleader su...
Corn Production Act, 1917 (English)
Corn Production Act, 1917 (English), was an Act for encouraging the production of corn, and provided, inter alia, for State payments to growers where the average price of wheat or oats fell below a minimum. It was amended by the Agricultural Act, 1920, and repealed by the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921. As to the Wheat Commission, Fund and Quota, see the Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 24); and see CORN SALES ACT, 1921....
Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874
Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), as amended by the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1875, was repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925. It provided (inter alia) that in the completion of any contract of sale of land, made after the 31st December, 1874, and subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the contract, forty years was to be substituted for sixty years as the period of commencement of title which a purchaser may require, saving those cases in which an earlier title than sixty years might formerly have been required (s. 1); replaced with the substitution of thirty yeas for forty by s. 44 (1), (English) L.P. Act, 1925. See ABSTRACT.The Act also provided that documents twenty years old should be prima facie proof of facts stated in them (s. 2). This has been replaced by s. 45 (6), (English) L.P. Act, 1925....
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