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Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...
Indecent advertisement
Indecent advertisement, for the purposes of the (English) Indecent Advertisement Act, 1889, means any advertisement relating to any complaint or debility relating to or arising from sexual inter-course. The Act is directed against the public ex-hibition of such advertisements, and prohibits, inter alia, their display in public urinals and where they can be seen by persons passing along public streets....
Controlled advertisement
Controlled advertisement, means a deposite advertisement to which, in accordance with the Banking Act, 1987 (Adverisements) Regulations 1988, SI 1988/645. reg. 2 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 80, p. 69....
Larceny (Advertisement) Act, 1870 (English)
Larceny (Advertisement) Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 65). By the Larceny Act,1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), s. 102, a penalty of 50l. is imposed on any person publishing an advertisement for the return of stolen goods 'without questions being asked,' recoverable by anyone suing for it. This leading to vexatious actions by common informers against the publishers of newspapers, the Act of 1870 enacts that no such action be brought against printers or publishers of newspapers without the consent of the Attorney-General, etc....
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Gazette and local advertisement
Gazette and local advertisement, unless the context otherwise requires, means in relation to an application, proposed order, order or scheme relating to a harbour or group of harbours in England or Wales, publication in the London Gazette and , in each of two successive weeks, in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality where the harbour or group is situate (English) Harbours Act, 1964, s. 57(1); Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, p. 256...
Prospectus
Prospectus, giving complete information about the school/college which issues it. It is the instrument through which the school/college 'holds out' its contents or 'represent' to the general public interest, Sanjeev Dadhwa v. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIR 1995 Del 268.Is a document which invites persons to take shares in a company and sets forth the advantages of the company an advertisement is also a prospectus, Paramatha Nath v. Kali Kumar, AIR 1925 Cal 714: (1925) ILR 51 Cal 440.Prospectus, is defined by s. 380 of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, as any prospectus, notice, circular, advertisement, or other invitation offering to the public for subscription or purchase any shares or debentures of a company. By s. 35 of the Act every prospectus issued by or on behalf of a company or engaged or interested in its formation, must state the matters specified in Part I. of the 4th Schedule and set out the reports specified in Part II. of that Schedule, subject as to both p...
Reward
Reward, a recompense for anything done.Something of value, usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321.By the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826, s. 28, the Courts may order the sheriff of the county, in which certain offences have been committed, to pay the person active in or towards the apprehension of persons charged with felonies a reasonable sum to compensate for expense, exertion, and loss of time, and by s. 30, if a man be killed in attempting to take such offenders the Court may order compensation to his wife or relatives. See Archbold, Crim. Pleading, etc., 25th Edn., pp. 276 et seq.Corruptly taking a reward for helping to the recovery of stolen property without exercising all due diligence to cause the offender to be brought to trial is punishable by penal servitude up to seven years. [(English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 34, and cf. ...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Sky Sign
Sky Sign. This expression is defined in s. 91 (3) of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, as follows:-'Sky sign' meansAny word, letter, model, sign, device, or representa-tion in the nature of an advertisement, announce-ment, or direction supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard, framework, or other support wholly or in part upon, over, or above any house, building or structure which, or any part of which, sky sign shall be visible against the sky from some point in any street or public way, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework, or other support.The expression 'sky sign' shall also include:Any balloon, parachute, or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over, or above any house, building, structure, or erection of any kind, or on or over any street or public way;But shall not include:(a) Any flagstaff, pole, vane, or weathercock unless adapted or used wholly or ...
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