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Borough Sessions

Matched in: Term Borough Sessions

Intoxicating liquor

grantable only at a 'general annual licensing meeting,' held in every division of a county, and in every borough having a separate commission of the peace, in the first fourteen days of February (s. 10). The Licensing … of which must be specified in writing [s. 18(2)], there is (see s. 29) an appeal to quarter sessions. Holders of certain wine and beer licences, if first granted before 1869 (before which year wine and beer

Municipal corporation

separate commission of the peace, excluding the jurisdiction of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,' having the same jurisdiction in the borough has the justices in County Quarter … clerk,' a 'treasurer,' and such other offices as the council think necessary. It has the control of the borough police, and as a local authority for the purposes of rating [(English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925]; good

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Sessions of the peace

Matched in: Term Sessions of the peace

Quarter Sessions

Matched in: Term Quarter Sessions

Local Government

or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL; PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH … the Imperial Government, is conducted the bodies appointed or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and

Borough Funds Acts

Matched in: Term Borough Funds Acts

Recorder

Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by the

Clerk of the peace

& 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), ss. 2, 3, 4. As to appointment, etc., in a quarter sessions borough, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 164.

Stipendiary Magistrates

to be done by two justices of the peace. a stipendiary magistrate cannot sit at general or quarter sessions. As to deputies, see 32 & 33 Vict. c. 34 and 6Edw. 7, c. 46. See JUSTICES; METROPOLITAN … 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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