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Overcrowding. By Part IV. of the (English) Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8), s. 58, it is provided that a dwelling-house shall (subject to the provisions of the Act) be deemed for the purposes of the Act to be overcrowded at any time when the number of persons sleeping in the house either.(a) is such that any two of those persons being 10 years old or more of opposite sexes and not living together as husband and wife sleep in the same room, or(b) is in relation to the number and floor area of the rooms of which the house consists, in excess of the permitted numbers defined in the 5th Sched. To the Act, i.e., in effect--TABLE IRooms. Persons.(a) 1 2(b) 2 3(c) 3 5(d) 4 7 1/2(e) 5 10andTABLR II (in the aggregate)Square feet. Persons.110 290 to 110 1 1/270 to 90 150 to 70 1/2Children under 1 year old do not count; from 1 to under 10 are reckoned as half.After the appointed day overcrowding is made an offence on the part of the occupier as well as (subject to statutory provisions)...
Heirloom
Any furniture movable or personal chattel which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations...
Degrees of prohibited relationship
Degrees of prohibited relationship, a man and any of the persons mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule and a woman and any of the persons mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule are within the degrees of prohibited relationship. [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. 2(b)]Degrees of prohibited relationship, [Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954), s. 2(b)]...
Judicial Trustee
Judicial Trustee, a trustee appointed by, and to act under the control of, the court, under the (English) judicial Trustees Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 35). Such a trustee may be appointed either jointly with any other person or as sole trustee, and if sufficient cause is shown in place of all or any existing trustees (s. 1); and the administration of the estate of a deceased person is a 'trust' within the meaning of the Act (ibid.). A judicial trustee is an officer of the court, and he may be remunerated out of the trust property and his accounts must be audited once a year and a report thereon made to the court (ibid). See also Judicial Trustee Rules, 1897, and Lewin on Trusts....
Seaman
Seaman, is a person who assists in the navigation and operation of a vessel at sea; a sailor or mariner, especially, one below the rank of officer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1351.Means any person forming part of the crew of any ship, but does not include the master of the ship. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, s. 2(1)(k)]...
Student
Student, means a person enrolled in the University for undergoing a course of studies for obtaining a degree, diploma or other academic distinction duly instituted. [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1992), s. 2(q)]Means a student of University and includes any person enrolled by the University, for pursuing any course of study of the University. [Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur Act, 2004, s. 2(17)]...
Second offence
Second offence, the word 'second' in the ex-pression 'second offence' in s. 16(1) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, means second in time, and not second of the same type. The 'second offence' must be an offence under the Act although it is says that if any person does any of the acts mentioned in cls. (a) to (g) in it, he shall be punishable for the first offence with a certain penalty, for the second offence with a higher penalty and for the third a still higher penalty, Jagdish Prasad v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC 290 (292): (1965) 3 SCR 806. See also AIR 1960 Ker 240 (241). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 16(1)]The words 'second offence' must, mean any act which is an offence under any of the clauses in the sub-s. which has been done later in point of time after a conviction for an offence under the Act, no matter whether the acts or omissions constituting the two offences are of the same type or not, Jagdish Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1986 ...
Locality
Locality, the question of notifying the locality might probably arise when all the lands in a village are sought to be acquired. Otherwise the word 'locality' is a word of such indefinite import that it is difficult to conceive of any locality in any particular village being notified for acquisition. Therefore when a locality in the sense of a village or perhaps a group of villages is notified for acquisition any person interested in any land in that locality would be entitled to be heard under s. 5A, Navneet Ram Batra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 2144 (2146): (1975) 2 SCC 727: (1976) 1 SCR 826. [Land Acquisition Act (10 of 1894), s. 5A]...
Forest officer
Forest officer, means any person whom the State Government or any office empowered by the State Government in this behalf, may appoint to carry out all or any of the purposes of this Act or to do anything required by this Act or any rule made thereunder to be done by a Forest-officer. [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 2 (2); Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(12A)]...
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
Metropolitan Police Magistrates. There are 25 salaried Metropolitan Police Magistrates (maximum 27) appointed by the Crown to execute the duties of justices of the peace within the Metropolitan Police District. The qualification for this office is having practised as a barrister for at least seven years. Any such magistrate can do alone any act which may be legally done by more than one justice of the peace. there is also special jurisdiction to settle disputes 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 premises to landlords (see Ston's Justices' Manual). The senior metropolitan Magistrate is ex-officio a justice for Berkshire (Indictable Offences Act, 1848). The Metropolitan Police Courts are: Bow Street, Clerkenwell, Marylebone, Marlborough Street, Westminster, Old Street, Thames, Tower Bridge, Lambeth, Greenwich, Wool...
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