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County Councils
also LOCAL GOVERNMENT; HOUSING; PUBLIC HEALTH. The County Council is also constituted the local authority under various Acts, chief of which are (English) the Education Act, 1921, and (English) Education (Local Authrities) Act, 1931 (c. 6); (English) … (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are nominated by the Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the
Consultation
or advising. A similar meeting of the solicitor with a junior counsel is called a conference. Consultation with chief justice of High Court not the same as that of 'consultation' contemplated under Article 217 of the Constitution for
Distress
(4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all material distinction between them. Distress may also be made at Common Law … rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions. A distress may be made of
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Sedition
such society; and every society which shall be composed of different divisions or branches, or of different parts acting in any manner separately or distinct from each other, or of which any part shall have any separate … to promote ill-feeling between different classes of the community. A charge of sedition is, historically, one of the chief means by which Government, especially at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, … and stir up opposition to the Government, and bring the administration of justice into contempt; and the very tendency of sedition is to incite the
Municipal corporation
Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government of the town. Such corporations … of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government of the town. Such corporations existed in the chief towns of England (as of other countries) from very early times, deriving their authority from 'incorporating' charters granted … a separate commission of the peace, excluding the jurisdiction of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,'
Pension
other than earnings, do not exceed forty-nine pounds seventeen shillings and six pence. There are, however, several disqualifications, chief of which are the receipt of poor relief; or being detained in prison without the option of a … is a payment for the past service rendered; and (iii) it is a social welfare measure rendering socio-economic justice to those who in the hey-day of their life ceaselessly toiled for the employer on as assurance that
Mayor
the Latin major, although maire is the more probable derivation through the lingual corruption of 'major'] the annual chief magistrate of a municipal borough, elected by the councillors under s. 15 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, … and in certain cases at parliamentary elections, as chairman of the meetings of the council, and as a justice of the peace for the borough
Governor
pleasure of President; the normal term is five years, Constitution of India, Arts. 155 and 156(1)(3). Is the Chief Executive of a State in the Indian Union Constitution of India, Art. 14. The executive power including all … given by the Secretary of State, the Governor may appoint another prison officer to represent him, (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1967, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 37, p. 1188. Reports to the President on the
Hawkers and pedlars
for sales at markets or fairs. A pedlar's certificate costs 5s. a year, and is grantable by the chief officer of police of the district in which the applicant has resided for a month before the application … a certificate of good character from a clergyman and two householders of the parish of residence, or a justice of the peace or a district superintendent or inspector of police. There are exemptions for the sale of
Revenue
received from land or other funds; also money at the disposal of the Crown, i.e., the executive. The chief sources are (1) Crown property, surrendered to the nation; (2) taxation--income tax, death duties, customs and excise, stamp … 29 Vict. c. 104). The jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer was transferred to the High Court of Justice ((English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 16, see now (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 18 (2) (iv.); but all
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