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Ancient lights, windows, glazed or unglazed, through which the access of light has been enjoyed otherwise than by consent or permission for twenty years and upwards, See LIGHT; Gale or Goddard on Easements; and Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71)....
Light
Light. No right to have the access of the sun's rays to one's windows free from any obstruction exists at Common Law (see DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA) but by virtue of the (English) Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71), uninterrupted enjoyment of light for twenty years--commonly called 'ancient lights' --constitutes in every case an absolute and indefeasible right to it, unless the enjoyment took place under some deed or written consent or agreement, Hyman v. Van Den Bergh, (1908) 1 Ch 167. See PRESCRIPTION.The Prescription Act has not altered the previous law as to ancient lights, Colls v. Home and Colonial Stores, 1904 AC 179. And the right is to uninterrupted access of such light only as is ordinarily required for ordinary purposes and not to light peculiarly appropriate to the particular purpose for which the light has been used [ibid., overruling Warren v. Brown, (1900) 2 QB 722], and see also Price v. Hildich, (1930) 1 Ch 500.If two tenements belong to a common landlord, the rig...
Injunction
Injunction, Expression 'injunction' in s. 41(b) is not qualified by an adjective and, therefore, it would, comprehend both interim and perpetual injunc-tion, Cotton Corporation of India v. United Industries Ltd., AIR 1983 SC 1272 (1277): (1983) 4 SCC 625. [Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 41(b)]This is the discretionary process of preventive and remedial justice, whereby a person is required to refrain from doing a specified meditated wrong, not amounting to a crime. It is either (1) inter-locutory, i.e., provisional or temporary, until the coming in of the defendant's answer, or until the hearing of the cause; or (2) perpetual, i.e., forming part of a decree made at a hearing upon the merits, whereby the defendant is perpetually inhibited from the assertion of a right, or perpetually res-trained from the commission of an act contrary to equity and good conscience. As to mandatory injunctions, see post.See Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), s. 37.Prior to the Judicature Act injunctio...
Red light
an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection Each set of lights typically has a colored red light and also green and amber lights the color of the light which is lighted at any one time changes automatically to control the flow of traffic through the intersection allowing flow from different directions in alternating succession Also called traffic light traffic signal or stop light When the red light is illuminated the signal means to stop green means to go and amber means to stop or procede through the intersection with caution In simple intersections of two roads a red light visible to traffic on one road will usually be accompanied by a green light visible to traffic on the intersecting road In some locations the lights may be set to be illuminated in other sequences or combinations a blinking red light is typically equivalent to a ldq...
Ancient demesne
Ancient demesne, a tenure now abolished by s. 128 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 16), see COPYHOLDS, but formerly existing in certain manors, which, though now granted to private persons, were in the actual possession of the Crown in the times of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, and appear to have been so by the great survey in the Exchequer called Domesday Book, and, therefore, whether lands are ancient demesne or not, is to be tried only by this book, called in consequence Liber Judicatorius; but the question must be tried by a jury whether lands be parcel of a manor which is ancient demesne, being a question of fact. There is great confusion in the books respecting this tenure. It is only the freeholders of the manor who are truly tenants in ancient demesne, and land held in ancient demesne, passes by common law conveyance without the instrumentality of the lord. The copyholders is an ancient demesne manor are merely to be considered as occupying...
Electric lighting
Electric lighting. The supply of electricity for light-ing is facilitated and regulated by the (English) Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56). Under this Act powers may be obtained either (1) by license from the Board of Trade; or (2) by Provisional Order of the Board of Trade, needing confirmation by special Act of Parliament; or (3) by special Act of Parliament. The (English) Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 19), has incorporated in one Act the usual clauses of provisional orders and special Acts, and directed that such clauses are to apply to every undertaking under the Electric Lighting Acts except so far as expressly varied. These licenses and orders may either be granted to the local authorities themselves or, with their consent, to independent contractors. Licenses continue in force for any period not exceeding seven years, but are renewable. By s. 27 of the (English) 1882 Act an undertaking autho-rized by provisional order or special Act may be...
Light Railway
Light Railway. Light railways, on which engines and carriages of eight tons weight or less may be brought upon the rails by any one pair o wheels, and the speed of trains is not to exceed twenty-five miles an hour, could and still can be authorized by the Board of Trade under s. 27 of the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119).These powers have been little, if at all, exercised; but the (English) Light Railways Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48), established a Light Railway Commission for the purpose of authorizing light railways, with special aid from the Treasury in certain circumstances and cases. By the (English) Light Railways Act, 1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners were continued for five years and several amendments made in the Act of 1896. See also Part V. of the (English) Railways Act, 1921....
Ancient monument
Ancient monument, means any structure, erection or monument, or nay tumulus or place of interment, or any cave, rock sculpture, inscription or monolith, which is of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which has been in existence for not less than one hundred years, and includes-(i) the remains of an ancient monument,(ii) the site of an ancient monument,(iii) such portion of land adjoining the site of an ancient monument as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving such monument, and(iv) the means of access to, and convenient inspection of an ancient monument. [Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (24 of 1958), s. 2(a)]...
Ancients
Ancients, gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery. In Gray's Inn the Society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar; and here the ancients are of the oldest barristers. In the Middle Temple, those who had passed their readings used to be termed ancients. The Inns of Chancery consisted of ancients and students or clerks; from the ancients a principal or treasurer was chosen yearly....
Electric lighting fittings
Electric lighting fittings, the expression 'electric lighting fittings' is normally understood in context with the household. The dippers and switches manufactured for use in cars are not understood either in the trade circle or in common parlance as electric lighting fittings. The words 'switches, plugs and sockets' have been widened by use of the expression 'all kinds', but the words used have to take colour from the genesis of the entry, that is, electric lighting fittings. Since the main or the principal entry deals with electric lighting fittings in the households, the switches and dippers manufactured by the respondent for exclusive use in motor vehicles cannot be said to be covered in the aforesaid entry, Union of India v. J.M.A. Industries, (1995) 3 SCC 389. [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Items 61 (as introduced in 1981), 34A (as amended in 1979) and 68]...
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