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Music and dancing licences

the licensing authority. Under the 'adoptive' (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, Part III., if and where adopted, a house or garden, whether licensed for the sale of liquor or not, may not be kept for

Money Bill

also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th

Money

also Currency; Current money; Flat money; Legal tender; Near money; Scrip; Wampum. A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign Government as a part of its currency, VCC $1-2-1(24).' Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th

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Manufacture

or part of a process for making, altering, ornamenting, finishing, packing, labeling, breaking up or otherwise treating or adopting any drug or cosmetic with a view to its sale or distribution but does not include the compounding

Local Improvements

must have been privately subscribed, and the rate must not exceed sixpence in the pound. The power of adopting and exercising the Act for a rural parish is vested in the parish council (if any) of that

Hindu

Marriage Act, 1955, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, the orthodox concept of the term 'Hindu' has under-gone a radical change and it

Fee-simple

Tenures (1. i., c. 1, s. 1), gives a description of this estate, which appears to have been adopted by every subsequent writer. His language is this:- A person who holds 'in fee-simple is he which hath

Father and mother

Father and mother, The father or mother mentioned in sub-s. (1) of s. 9 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 must necessarily mean the natural father and the natural mother, Dhanraj v. Suraj Bai,

Bye-law

(1898) 2 QB 91; DPP v. Hutchinson, (1990) 2 All ER 836. Means a rule or administrative provision adopted by an association or corporation for its internal governance. Co-operate bye-laws are usually enacted apart from the articles

Palmetto flag

Any of several flags adopted by South Carolina after its secession That adopted in November 1860 had a green cabbage palmetto in the

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