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Registration of title of land

the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925). Registration is compulsory in the counties of London, Middlesex (q.v.), County Borough of Eastbourne (Order in Council, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 1262, as from 1st January, 1925), and County

By-laws, or bye-laws

chancellor, treasurer, and chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7. County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249; may make

Freedom of a borough

Matched in: Term Freedom of a borough

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Tenure

abolished, see infra) is where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough are held of some lord by a certain rent. There were a great many customs affecting these tenures,

Borough Funds Acts

Matched in: Term Borough Funds Acts

Borough Sessions

Matched in: Term Borough Sessions

County boroughs

County boroughs. The 93 boroughs which are named in Part II. of the First Schedule of the (English) Local Government

Special constables

sworn in though exempt by law, and s. 196 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, by which borough justices 'shall appoint in October in every year so many as they may think fit of the inhabitants

Coroner

the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in counties by

Stipendiary Magistrates

Stipendiary Magistrates, paid magistrates ap-pointed in the Metropolis under the (English) Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839; in municipal boroughs, on petition by the council to the Secretary of State, under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s.

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