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Army (UK) [fr. armee, Fr.], the military force of a country. From1689 to 1879, the army was regulated by Annual Mutiny Acts usually expiring in April, and by the 'Articles of War' which those Acts empowered the sovereign to make. In 1879 the Army Discipline Act (42 & 43 Vict. c. 33) consolidated the provisions of the Mutiny Act with the Articles of War. This Act having been amended by the Army Discipline and Regulation Annual Act, 1881, which substituted 'summary' for corporal punishment, and also by the Regulation of the Forces Act, 1881, a fairly complete military code is now contained in the 'Army Act, 1881' (44 & 45 Vict. c. 58), now styled the 'Army Act' simply, by virtue of s. 4 of the Army (Annual) Act, 1890.The Army Act requires to be annually renewed by an Act passed for that purpose called the 'Army (Annual) Act.' Such annual Act follows the precedent of the Mutiny Acts is reciting the illegality of a standing army in time of peace without consent of Parliament (as declared b...
Army Brokerage Acts (UK)
Army Brokerage Acts (UK), 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c.16; 49 Geo. 3, c. 126, Acts forbidding the purchase of offices; so called by 38 & 39 Vict. c.16, the Regimental Exchanges Act, 1875...
Territorial Army (English)
Territorial Army (English). A body of men first created as the Territorial Force by the Territorial and Reserve Forces Acts, 1907, to replace the Yeomanry and Volunteers. As to the position of the Militia, see that title. The scheme upon which the Act is based is the organization of the Force by counties through County Associations (ss. 1-5). Enlistments is generally for four years, and with a right to the soldier to obtain his discharge earlier on giving three months' notice, paying a sum not exceeding 5l., and giving up arms, clothing, etc., in good condition, except that he loses this right when the Army Reserve has been called out on permanent service. All ranks are subject to military law when serving, and officers, other than members of the permanent staff, if on the active list, at all times [Army Act, 1881, s. 175 (3) (A), as amended by the Territorial Army and Militia Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 4 (1)], and Army Act, 1881, s. 176 (6) (A)]. The Force may be called out...
Army Council
Army Council. This Council was first established in 1904, when the post of Commander-in-Chief was abolished. The four military members are the Chief of the Staff, the Adjutant-General, the Quarter-Master General, and the Master-General of the Ordnance, and there is also a finance member and a civil member. The respective duties of those members are defined by an Order in Council of 10th August, 1904, and each is responsible to the Secretary of State for War, who is solely responsible to the Crown and Parliament. The Secretary of the War Office acts as secretary to the Army Council. See also the (English) Army (Annual) Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 3), s. 4, as to the powers of the Council....
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK)
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK), one of the Common Law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the Crown of either real or personal property, or compensation in damages for breach of contract, the Crown not being liable to an ordinary action at the suit of a subject. It is said to owe its origin of Edward I.By the (UK) Petition of Right Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 34) (commonly called Bovill's Act), the procedure on a petition of right is assimilated as far as practic-able to the course of an ordinary action. The fiat of the sovereign 'that right be done' is, however, a necessary preliminary step; this is obtained by leaving the petition with the Home Secretary. A judgment that the suppliant is entitled to the whole or some portion of the relief sought by his petition, or to such other relief as the Court may think right, has the same effect as a judgment of amoveas manus. Costs are made payable both to and by the Crown, and nothing in the Act is to prevent any sup...
District Boards (UK)
District Boards (UK), in London, constituted by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, for the management of the sanitary affairs of combinations of parishes not singly represented by vestries. Their powers are transferred to the metropolitan boroughs constituted under the (English) London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14). [See also the (English) London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1934, (c. xl.)]...
Drivers, etc., of carriages (UK)
Drivers, etc., of carriages (UK). As to misconduct by them, see Highways Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 50), s. 78; 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, s. 35); Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), ss. 37 et seq.; Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 35; Licensing Act, 1872, s. 12; Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54; and the Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), as amended by 24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50, and see DRUNKENNESS. As to licensing, etc., of drivers of motor cars, see MOTOR CAR....
Inferior Courts (UK)
Inferior Courts (UK). They are the Court baron, the hundred Court, the borough civil Court, the County Court, the Mayor's Court, London, and also all courts of a special jurisdiction; but the county Courts are by far the most important of them. They are all controllable by writ of prohibition if they exceed their jurisdiction. See, further, the Borough and Local Courts of Record Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 86); and as to the jurisdic-tion of such courts, and the rules of procedure in force therein, see also the Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 201-209, and COUNTY COURTS.The (English) Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 31), following the procedure of the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, which applies to superiors courts only, renders, to a certain extent, judgments obtained in inferior courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland res-pectively, effectual in any other part of the United Kingdom; but the working of the Act is very much cramped by the provision of s. 10, th...
Law Reform (UK)
Law Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his estate. See actio personalis, and by s. 1(2) it is enacted:Where a cause of action survives as aforesaid for the benefit of the estate of a deceased person the damages recoverable for the benefit of the estate of that person:-(a) shall not include any exemplary damages;(b) in the case of a breach of promise to marry shall be limited to such damage, if any, to the estate of that person as flows from the breach of promise to marry;(c) where the death of that person has been caused by the act of omission which gives rise to the cause of action, shall be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to his estate consequent on his death, except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be included.See Rose v. Ford, (1937) 53 TLR 873.The right...
Newgate, delivery of (UK)
Newgate, delivery of (UK). See CENTRAL CRIMINAL Court; also 25 Geo. 3, c. 18....
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