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An artisan who beats gold into goldleaf...
Finding
That which is found come upon or provided esp pl that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself as tools trimmings etc...
Cross's Acts (English)
Cross's Acts (English), the Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts of 1875 and 1879, repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act,1890 (53& 54 Vict. c. 70). See HOUSING ACTS...
Estate
Estate [fr. status, Lat.; etat, Fr.], the condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a legal estate or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged, each of the holders of these estates having a good legal or equitable estate at the same time; again, estates may be in possession, or in futuro; personal property may also be subject concurrently to a variety of ownerships, according to its nature; technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is into real estate and personal estate, altho...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Tools
Tools, the term tools cannot be restricted to simple implements used by artisans for purpose of their trade, AIR 1962 Mad 444 (446).As to their privilege from distress, see DISTRESS. In bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 38, and as to execution upon tools of trade of small value, see Small Debts Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 127), s. 8....
Torrens' Act
Torrens' Act, the repealed Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868. See LABOURERS' DWELL-INGS....
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