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Fire
Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...
Legal practitioner
Legal practitioner, means an advocate [or vakil] or any High Court, a pleader, mukhtar or revenue agent. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), s. 2 (i)]It means an advocate entered in any roll under the provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961. [Notaries Act, 1952 (53 of 1952), s. 2 (c)]It shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Advocates Act, 1961. [Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), s. 2 (r)]...
Diss
Diss., the anatomical examination of a dead body. It is regulated by the (English) Anatomy Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75), 'An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy,' as slightly amended by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 16. The seventh section of the first-mentioned Act allows an executor to permit diss. Unless the deceased shall have expressed a desire to the contrary, or the husband or wife of the deceased or any known relative shall have required interment without diss., and the eighth enjoins diss. if the deceased shall have directed it, and neither husband nor wife nor nearest known relative shall have objected; while the sixteenth repeals so much of 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, as authorized the diss., after execution, of the body of a person convicted or murder....
Proxy
Proxy, a person appointed, usually by written authority, by a person entitled to vote personally, to vote at the discretion of the proxy. See Harben v. Phillips, (1883) 23 Ch D p. 35.As to voting by proxy under the (English) Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), see sections 76, 77 of that Act; amended in the case of a company being shareholder, by the Companies Clauses Acts, 1888 and 1889.A letter 'for the sole purpose of appointing or authorizing a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be one or more,' must bear a penny stamp, must specify the day on which the meeting is to be held, and is to be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof [(English) Stamp Act, 1891, and First Schedule]. The Standing Orders of Parliament (L.S.O. 62 and C.S.O. 62) prohibit the sending out of stamped proxies in connection with extension bills. Directors, acting in ...
Enacting formula
Enacting formula, is the section of a Bill or statute which establishes the whole document as a law, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 24.Is a short formal paragraph immediately after the title and Preamble (if any) of the Bill, which set forth the authority of the body by which the Bill is to be passed, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 92 and H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970.Is taken up for passing only when all the clauses and Schedules (including new clauses and new Schedules) have been disposed of, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, p. 92.Was adopted in 1954. It proceeds the clauses of the Bill, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001 p. 535...
Load-line
Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt water, to which it should be lawful to load a ship,' i.e., a compulsory load-line, for a load-line indicating a point beyond which the owner intended that it should not be loaded, as prescribed by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, i.e., an optional load-line; and this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), and ss. 43 to 46 now prescribed the law.Under the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, s. 442, sub-mergence beyond the load-line by reason of weather was held to be an offence, Radcliffe v. Brickwell, (1927) 2...
Ranges Act, 1891
Ranges Act, 1891 (English) (54 & 55 Vict. c. 54), facilitated the acquisition of ranges by or for volunteer corps; the Military Lands Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 43), has repealed and superseded it with the exception of its 11th section, so far as it relates to acquisition of land under the Defence Acts. As to the right of an owner, whose lands are compulsorily taken, to be compensated for the injurious affection of his adjoining lands, see Blundell v. Rex, (1905) 1 KB 516, and Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation Act), 1919, also particular statutory provisions...
C.N.
C.N. Code Napoleon see also the Important Laws section ...
I.R.C.
I.R.C. Internal Revenue Code see also the Important Laws section ...
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