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Chambers of the King (Regi' camer'). The exclusive territorial jurisdiction of the British Crown over the in closed parts of the sea long the coasts of the island of Great Britain has immemorially extended to those bays called the King's chambers: that is, portions of the sea cut off by lines drawn from one promontory to another, Wheat. Int. Law, 234....
Commonwealth
Commonwealth, 1. The social status of a country, without regarding its form of government; also a republic, or that form of government in which the administration of public affairs is open to all, with few, if any, exceptions. 2. The period of the administration of the Parliamentary Army, and the Protector Cromwell. The journals of this Parliament are found alongwith the rest. See DE JURE and UPPER BENCH.Means the United Kingdom the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the countries mentioned in the British Nationality Act, 1981, Sch. 3 and all other territories forming part of Her Majesty's dominions or in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction, Air Navigation Order 1989, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1190, p. 580...
Vancouver's Island
Vancouver's Island. See 12 & 13 Vict. c. 48; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 99, s. 6; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 67 (providing for union with British Columbia); 33 & 34 Vict. c. 66, and British North America Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 26), confirming the agreement between British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada....
Channel Islands
Channel Islands. Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, part of the ancient Duchy of Normandy, annexed to the kingdom of England by William the Conqueror: by the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63), s. 18(1)(b), included in the expression British Isles. They ae governed by their own laws and not bound by any statute of the British Parliament, unless expressly named therein. An appeal lies from their Courts to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council....
Ship
Ship, the carriage of goods by Sea Act, 1925 (26 of 1925). [XXVI of 1925, Sch. Art. 1, Cl. (d)]Ship, means any vessel used for the carriage of goods by sea.A type of vessel used or intended to be used in navigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1382.In the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), by s. 742, 'includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars.' [This definition has been adopted by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 34), s. 48(1)]'Foreign-going ship,' by the same s., 'includes every ship employed in trading, or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situate beyond the following limits: that is to say, the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe, between the river Elbe and Brest inclusive'; and'Home-trade ship' includes 'every ship employed in trading or going' within the above limits; and'Home-trade pass...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
commonwealth
commonwealth 1 : a nation, state, or other political unit: as a : one founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement by the people for the common good b : one in which supreme authority is vested in the people c : republic 2 : a state of the U.S. used officially of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia 3 often cap : an association of self-governing autonomous states more or less loosely associated in a common allegiance (as to the British crown) 4 often cap : a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the U.S. used officially of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands ...
Broadcasting
Broadcasting. Aural or visual communication by wireless telegraphy (q.v.).In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, the service of broadcasting to the public by means of wireless telephony and television is carried on by the British Broadcasting Corporation incorporated by Royal Charter in December, 1926, which was supplemented in August, 1931, acting under licence of the Postmaster General. See Parliamentary Papers, Cmd. 5329 (1936); and WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY....
Foreign company
Foreign company. Every Company incorporated outside the United Kingdom, which has a place of business in the United Kingdom, has to comply with certain regulations laid down by Part XI., ss. 343-352 of the Companies Act, 1929. The regulations relate, inter alia, to the registration with the registrar of companies of a copy or translation of the instrument and regulations constituting the company, a list of directors with the statutory particulars and the names and addresses of one or more residents in Great Britain for service of notices and process on the company, and other important provisions. Companies incorporated in a British possession are empowered to hold land in the United Kingdom without prejudice to their powers by virtue of registration in Northern Ireland (s. 345). Special regulations are made for companies incorporated in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (s. 343).The general provisions of the Companies Act, 1929, relating to charges on property in England and on p...
Lands and buildings
Lands and buildings, The word 'building' that which is built; a structure, edifice: now a structure of the nature of a house built where it is to stand. Includes the site of the building as its component part. A somewhat similar point arose for considera-tion in Corporation of the City of Victoria v. Bishop of Vancouver Island, AIR 1921 PC 240 with reference to the meaning of the word 'building' occurring ins. 197(1) of the Statutes of British Columbia, 1914. It was held that the word must receive its natural and ordinary meaning as 'including the fabric of which it is composed, the ground upon which its walls stand and the ground embraced within those walls'. That appears correct meaning of 'building', D.G. Gouse and Co. (Agents) Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Kerala, AIR 1980 SC 271: (1980) 2 SCC 410: (1980) 1 SCR 804....
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