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Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English). The best known of them are the Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4, 8 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), the Judicial Committee Act of 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 41), the repealed County Court Act of 1846, the repealed Act for shortening the language of Acts of Parliament (13 & 34 Vict. c. 21), for which ss. 1, 3 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, are now substituted, and the Evidence Acts of 1845 and 1851 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113), and (14 & 15 Vict. c. 99); and the Act, now replaced, which made slave trading a felony for the first time....
Conveyancing Acts (English)
Conveyancing Acts (English). See LAW OF PRO-PERTY. These Acts, of which the principal were the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), the C. Act, 1881, as amended by the Acts of 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 39), 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 13), 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 37), were all repealed, and partly replaced and extended by the Law of Property Act, 1925. The Conveyancing Act, 1881, was a simplifying and Codifying Act introduced by Lord Cairns. It embodied the provisions of previous statutes, the effect of legal decisions, and the practice of conveyancers much of which had already been crystallized in common form. Some of the old forms were very lengthy, and required to be inserted with or without modification in every important conveyance of land. The Act of 1881 related inter alia to contracts, conveyances, mortgages, leases, dispositions by married women, or on behalf of infants or other persons under incapacity....
Except as provided in this Act
Except as provided in this Act, the opening words 'Except as provided in this Act' limit the operation of the bar. It can reasonably be interpreted to mean that the bar of a suit is limited to matters in respect whereof the Act has provided a remedy. So construed before we apply the provisions of s. 26 of the Act, two conditions shall be complied with, namely, (I) the Railway administration shall have done an act or omitted to do an act in contravention of the provisions of Ch. V and (ii) the Act has provided a remedy in respect of that act or omission, Raichand Amulakh Shah v. Union of India, AIR 1964 SC 1268 (1270): (1964) 5 SCR 148. (C.P.C. 1908, s. 9; Railways Act, 1890, s. 26)...
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English) 915 Geo. 5,c. 20), with amending Acts, 1926, 1929 and 1932 (cited together as the Law of Property Acts, 1925 to 1932), has consolidated and effected changes in the land laws with the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal estates can exist in respect of the same piece of land or incorporeal hereditament; for instance, land may be held in fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests. All mortgages of the same legal estate under the statutory conditions are legal estates. None being for the whole fee simple or the term, but each for a term taken out of the fee or origin...
Provincial Act
Provincial Act, shall mean an Act made by the Governor-in-Council, Lieutenant Governor-in-Council or Chief Commissioner in Council of a Province under any of the Indian Councils Acts or the Government of India Act, 1915, or an Act made by the local legislature or the Governor of a province under the Government of India Act, or an Act made by the Provincial Legislature or Governor of a Province or the Coorg Legislative Council under the Government of India Act, 1935. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(46)]...
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (English) (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20), and Railways Clauses Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 92). These Acts contain general provisions as to the construction and management of railways, and were passed for the purposes of (1) avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in the special Acts by which each railway company is incorporated; and (2) securing uniformity in the provisions themselves. The Act of 1845 applies to all companies incorporated after its passing, except as expressly excepted by any special Act; the Act of 1863 applies only if expressly incorporated in a special Act....
Town Police Clauses Acts, 1847
Town Police Clauses Acts, 1847 (English) (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), and 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 14). Adoptive Acts. The Act of 1847 related to obstructions and nuisances in streets, fires, places of public resort, hackney carriages, and public bathing and other matters for the order and good government of towns and other districts. The Act of 1847 is still in force as amended; the Act of 1889 was repealed by the Road Traffic Act, 1930; see also Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1936, and Road Traffic Acts, 1930 to 1934....
Sturges Bourne's Acts
Sturges Bourne's Acts. (English) (1) 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, the Vestries Act, 1818 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestries'), as to notice of vestries, qualification for vestry meetings, etc. (repealed as to rural parishes by the Local Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were enabled to commit the management of its poor to a committee of the parishioners appointed for that purpose and called a 'select vestry,' to whose orders the overseers were bound to conform (this portion of the Act, being superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, is repealed by the Statute Laws Revision Act, 1873). See now Poor Law Act, 1930, and POOR LAW....
Statute Law Revision Acts
Statute Law Revision Acts. A number of general Acts were passed from the year 1861 to 1927 inclusive, for the purpose of expressly and specifically repealing Acts or parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, or which (see the preambles to the various Acts) 'might be regarded as spent, or had by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary' from various causes, or had become obsolete, and also partly with the view of clearing the way for two editions of 'Statutes Revised,' that is, statutes in force only, as distinguished from the 'Statutes at Large,' or statutes just as they are passed. In 1890, as explained in an Introductory Note to vol. 4 of the 2nd edition of the Revised Statutes, a Select Committee of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the omission from the Revised Statutes of 'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or in...
Reform Acts
Reform Acts (English) [2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 45 (1832), 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 (1867)], commonly called the (English) Representation of the People Acts; and the Representation of the People Act, 1884 (48 Vict. c. 3): Acts for extending the parliamentary franchise. The Acts of 1832 and 1867 applied to England and Wales only, there being separate Acts for Scotland and Ireland at the same period; the Act of 1884 applied to Scotland and Ireland as well. See now Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 64) (England, Wales and Scotland)....
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