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A clerk who registers passengers baggage etc for conveyance as by railway or steamship or who sells passage tickets at a booking office...
Booking office
An office where passengers baggage etc are registered for conveyance as by railway or steamship...
Domesday, or domesday-book
Domesday, or domesday-book [liber judiciarius vel censualis Angli', Lat.], an ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now kept at the Record Office, consisting of two volumes, a greater and lesser; the greater containing a survey of all the lands in England except the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham, and part of Lancashire, which it is said, were never surveyed; and excepting Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, which three last are comprehended in the lesser volume. There is also a third book, which differs from the others in form more than in matter, made by command of the same king. And there is a fourth book called Domesday, which is only abridgement of the others. The question whether lands are ancient demesne or not is to be decided by the Domesday of William I., whence there is no appeal. The addition of day to this Dome-book was not meant for an allusion to the final day of judgment, as most persons have conceived, but was to strengthen...
Office
Office, an employment, either judicial, municipal (see CORPORATE OFFICE), civil, military, or ecclesiastical.As to obtaining offices by desert only, the repealed 12 Ric. 2, c. 2, enacted that--The Chancellor, Treasurer, . . . the Justices of the one bench and the other, Barons of the Exchequer and all other that shall be called to ordain, name, or make justices of the peace, sheriffs, . . . or any other officer or minister of the King shall be firmly sworn that they shall not ordain name, or make justice of peace, sheriff . . . nor other officer or minister of the King for any gift or brocage, favour or affection: nor that none that pursueth by him or by other privily or openly to be in any manner of office shall be put in the same office or in any other; but that they make all such officers and ministers of the best and most lawful men, and sufficient to their estimation and knowledge.Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia, (The offices of a magistrate ought not to be saleable.)L...
Fleet-books
Fleet-books. These books contain the original entries of marriages solemnized in the Old Fleet Prison from 1686 to 1754, but are not, it is said, admissible in evidence to prove a marriage, for they were not made under public authority. But perhaps on a question of pedigree, they ae evidence to show the name by which a woman passed when she was married there. The books are now deposited in the office of the Registrar-General, pursuant to the (English) Non-Parochial Registers Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 92), ss. 6, 23, Taylor on Evid., s. 1430; Hubback on Succession, p. 510....
Paper Book
Paper Book, the issues in law, etc., upon special pleadings, formerly made up by the clerk of the papers, who was an officer for that purpose, but latterly by the plaintiff's attorney or agent. See Jac. Law Dict.; 3 Bl. Com. 317.Any party who enters an action for trial must deliver to the officer of the court two copies of the whole of the pleadings, one for the use of the judge at the trial [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI., r. 30]....
Stationery Office
Stationery Office. A Government office established to supply Government offices with stationery and books, and to print and publish Government papers. By the Documentary Evidence Act, 1882, documents printed under the superintendence of the office are receivable in evidence....
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
Bank book
A book kept by a depositor in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositors account with the bank...
Book
Book, the 'book' in common acceptation is a literary composition from which one may extend or advance his or her knowledge and learning, Commr. of Customs v. Parasrampuria Synthetics Ltd., (2001) 9 SCC 74 (82).--For the purposes of s. 15 of the Copyright Act,1911, dealing with the delivery of books to certain libraries, the expression 'book' includes every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or table separately published, but not a second or subsequent edition of a book unless such edition contains additions or alterations either in the letterpress, or in the maps, prints, or other engravings belonging thereto. By s. 15 a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom must be sent to the British Museum, and on written demand to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and subject to certain provisos the N...
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