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City
City [fr. cite, Fr.], a town corporate, which has usually a bishop and cathedral church. It is called civitas, because it is governed by justice and order of magistracy; oppidum, for that it contains a great number of inhabitants; and urbs, because it is in due form begirt about with walls, Jac. Law Dict.1. A municipal Corporation, usu. headed by a mayor and governed by a city council. 2. The territory within a city's corporate limit. 3. Collectively, the people who live within this territory, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Common Council
Common Council, the councillors of the City of London. See COUNCIL....
commission
commission 1 : a formal written authorization to perform various acts and duties [a notary's ] 2 a : authority to act for, in behalf of, or in place of another b : a task or matter entrusted to one as the agent for another 3 a : a group of persons directed to perform a duty b usu cap : a government agency [Federal Trade Commission] see also agency c : a city council having legislative and executive functions 4 : an act of committing something [ of the crime] 5 : a fee paid to an agent or employee for transacting a piece of business or performing a service ;esp : a percentage of the money received paid to the agent responsible for the business commission vt ...
Bankruptcy debt
Bankruptcy debt, in relation to a bankrupt, means (1) any debt or liability to which he is subject at the commencement of the bankruptcy or (b) any debt or liability to which he may become subject after the commencement of the bankruptcy (including after his discharge from bankruptcy) by reason of any obligation incurred before commencement of the bankruptcy, R (Steele) v. Birmingham City Council, (2006) 1 WLR 2380 (CA).Bankruptcy debt, in relation to a bankrupt, means (1) any debt or liability to which he is subject at the commencement of the bankruptcy (b) any debt or liability to which he may become subject after the commencement of the bankruptcy by reason of any obligation incurred before the commencement of the bankruptcy, Glenister v. Rowe, (1999) 3 WLR 716 (CA)....
Emitted
Emitted, means 'goes out from' rather than 'produced by', Network Housing Association v. Westminster City Council, (1994) 27 HLR 189: 93 LGR 280 DC. See also Halsbury's Laws of England (38), para 610, p. 548.That is dearness allowance and special allowances in addition to basic pay, could not be excluded because of the addition of some other item like 'dearness pay', N.D.P. Namboodripad v. Union of India, (2007) 4 SCC 502....
Advertisement
Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...
Circuits
Circuits (seven eight formerly), certain divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a year, in the respective vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged that at the majority of the circuit towns one judge only should attend, with the power, however, under Rule 9 of the Order, of requesting one of the judges in London to proceed to any place on circuit in his aid 'in order to enable the judges, as far as possible, to leve no cause untried at any place on any circuit.' The following were the circuits as altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford; (5) Midland; (6) Norfolk; (7) North Wales; and South Wales.By the (English) Judicature ...
Royal Courts of Justice
Royal Courts of Justice, the statutory name, by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 222, replacing s. 28 of the (English) Jud. (Officers) Act, 1879, of the Law Courts, on the north side of the Strand, between St. Clement Danes Church and Chancery Lane, in which the business of the Supreme Court is transacted. The erection of buildings for bringing together into one place 'all the superior Courts of Law and Equity, the Probate and Divorce Courts and the court of Admiralty' recommended by a Royal Commission in 1858 was authorized by Parliament in 1865 by the (English) Courts of Justice Building Act and the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act (28 & 29 Vict. cc. 48, 49). The Royal Courts were formally opened by Queen Victoria on the 4th of December, 1882, and opened for business on the 11th of January, 1883, the Judges' Chambers and other offices having been opened for business in January, 1880. Prior to the opening, the Chancery Division of the High Court occupied courts at Lincoln's Inn,...
Municipality
Municipality, means the Nagar Panchayat or the Municipal Council, as the case may be, constituted under the provisions of this Act. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(34)]--means the New Delhi Municipal Committee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)]--the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted on strength of population and the area of place where it is constituted namely rural or urban. But all the three are deemed to be municipality. A Municipal Corporation with a larger area is as much a municipality as a council with smaller area, Cantonment Board v. G. Venkataram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [Constitution of India , Art. 243]Municipality, sh...
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