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Special jury
Special jury, a jury consisting of persons who, in addition to the ordinary qualifications, are of a certain station in society as esquires, bankers, merchants, etc. The Jurors Act, 1870, s. 6, provides that every man … to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 50l. elsewhere, or who shall occupy premises other than a farm, rated or assessed as aforesaid on a value of not less than 100l., or
Pound
Pound [fr. pund, Sax.; pondo, Lat.], a certain weight, consisting in troy weight of 12, in avoirdupois of 16 ounces; the sum of 20s, said to … Rent Act, 1737, s. 10, empowering any person lawfully distraining for rent to impound the distress on the premises chargeable with the rent. By s. 7 of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2
Horses
Animals, etc., Act. 1912, and 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 54, requiring the use of anesthetics in certain cases. The slaughter of injured horses by, or by order of, the police is authorized by the same … person being the owner of a stallion to travel it for service or to exhibit it on any premises not in his occupation with a view to its use for service unless the stallion is licensed. Consult,
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Warehouse
storing goods on behalf of depositors, but does not include cloak rooms attached to hotels, railway stations, the premises of other public carries and the like. [Gujarat Warehouses Act, 2006, s. 2(j)] Means any enclosure, building or … Warehouse, in common parlance, certainly means a place where a man stores or keeps his goods which are not immediately wanted for sale,
Electoral franchise
others by the potwallers (q.v.), and in others these different qualifications, or some of them, were combined. With certain savings as to corporate towns, the (English) Reform Act, 1832, established a universal 10l. household suffrage for adult … a qualifying period of six months in any one constituency or contiguous constituency, or the occupation of business premises of 10l. annual value for the same period (s. 1). The (English) Representation of the People (Equal Franchise)
warrant
search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant … or things to be seized no-knock search warrant : a search warrant allowing law enforcement officers to enter premises without prior announcement in order to prevent destruction of evidence (as illegal drugs) or harm to the officers
Infectious diseases
53 Vict. c. 72), and enjoins the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the district of certain specific diseases therein named, and also of other diseases added to the list by the local authority, s. … washhouse before disinfection or without proper notice. Home work, such as tailoring or other specified work in any premises in which a notifiable disease occurs may be forbidden by the local authority (s. 154). Bys. 155 dealers
Public health
the Public Health Act, 1875 (the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), repeals certain sections of this Act, re-enacting them with amendments), which thus formed a sanitary code for England outside the … health authorities, building from the sanitary point of view, sewage and sewers, drains and cesspools, filthy or verminuous premises or persons, public conveniences, nuisances, offensive trades, smoke, water supply (works, wells, charges, supply waste); prevention, notification and
Drunkenness
only to persons voluntarily submitting themselves thereto in the first instance, the Act of 1898 is compulsory in certain cases, authorizing the Court to order the detention in an inebriate reformatory of an habitual drunkard convicted on … (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80] The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing
Hire-purchase system
of goods lets them on hire for periodic payments by the hirer upon an agreement that when a certain number of payments have been completed, the absolute property in the goods will pass to the hirer, but … a landlord's right is to make the hirer that one of husband and wife, in whose name the premises have not been taken. To avoid this, landlords should let the premises jointly--or prove that they were in
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