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Metropolitan Police Magistrates

Administration Act, 1914], s. 37; and (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925, s. 25. This does not affect the alternative appeal to the High Court by way of case stated on a point of law given by the … about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value, and to give possession of deserted

custody

child's upbringing compare visitation joint custody : custody of a child shared by divorced or separated parents who alternate physical custody of and share in decisions regarding the child called also shared custody phys·i·cal custody : custody

Pension

to receive pension in property under Art. 31(1) of the Constitution of India and by a mere executive order the State has no power to withhold the same, Deokinavdan Prasad v. State of Bihar, AIR 1971 SC

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Natural justice

Dei case [(1967) 2 SCR 625: AIR 1967 SC 1269]; wherein it was held that even an administrative order or decision in matters involving civil consequences, has to be made consistently with the rules of natural justice.

Uniformity, Act of

The Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874, has also added to the remedies for clerical deviations from uniformity. An alternative lectionary has been provided by the Revised Table of Lessons Measure, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, No. … prayer, celebration and administration of both the sacraments and all other the public and common prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said book annexed and joined to this present Act.... And that

liability

or criminal sanctions [ for injuries caused by their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this entry alternative liability : joint liability imposed on multiple tortfeasors when there are simultaneous tortious acts (as defective manufacture of … cause of injuries, was defective at the time of purchase, and was used for its intended purpose in order to establish a products liability claim. secondary liability 1 : vicarious liability in this entry 2 : liability

Institutions

complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had

Imprisonment

the discretion of the court. Imprisonment for not more than two years is very frequently authorised, as an alternative to penal servitude, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and other Acts set out in … money when ordered to pay the same in his character of an officer of the Court making the order; [see Re Strong, (1886) 32 Ch D 342]. (5) Default in payment for the benefit of creditors of

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