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So long as that tax continues to be levied in that State, the plain and simple meaning which must be culled out from the said expression in the context of the other phraseology in clause (2) is that the local authority can claim protection under clause (2) if it is a local authority in the same State in which it was before the advent of the Constitution. There does not seem to be any ambiguity in this matter and there is, therefore, no escape from the position that Bellary Municipal Council in the city of Bellary which was a local authority within the State of Madras cannot take the advantage of clause (2) as at the time when it was making the claim for realisation of the tax it was a part of the Mysore State. It is neither necessary nor advisable for us to speculate or hazard a surmise to find out a reason for making this distinction between the right of a local authority in the same State and being part of the different States in the pre-Constitution and post-constitution eras, Union...
Parish Clerk
Parish Clerk. This office is of extreme antiquity--next indignity to the clergy, says Leland; but it is a temporal office, Lawrence v. Edwards, (1891) 2 Ch 72. He is now appointed by the incumbent and the parochial church council jointly. The remuneration and terms depended on the custom of the particular parish and on the agreement made with him--58 Geo. 3, c. 45; 59 Geo. 3, c. 134; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 104; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1. See note Key and Elph. Prec., 12th Edn., vol. i, p. 118. The Company of Parish Clerks is the most ancient in the City of London; yet they stand at the bottom of the list, and have neither livery nor the privilege of making their members free of the City. See 2 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. 700.For the appointment of the clerk of the parish council under the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5. C. 51), see s. 114, ibid....
Burial authority
Burial authority, includes the council of district, Londonborough, Parish community, the Common Council of City of London, and the Parish meeting of a Parish having no Parish council, whether separate or common, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1010, p. 483...
Councilman
A member of a council especially of the common council of a city a councilor...
council
council : a governmental body: as a : a group elected as a legislative body [city ] b : an administrative body [ on aging] c : an executive body whose members are equal in power and authority compare committee ...
Persona designata
Persona designata, a persona designata, is 'a person who is pointed out or described as an individual, as opposed to a person ascertained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character.' (See Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 4th Edn., p. 253). In the words of Schwabe, C.J. In Parthasarathi Naidu v. Koteswara Rao, ILR 47 Mad 369: (AIR 1924 Mad 561) (FB), personae designate are 'persons selected to act in their private capacity and not in their capacity as Judges', Central Talkies v. Dwarka Prasad, AIR 1961 SC 606 (609): (1961) 3 SCR 495; see also Mukri Gopalan v. Cheppilat, (1995) 5 SCC 5: AIR 1995 SC 2272.Persona designata, connotes person pointed out by name or other personal description in contradis-tinction to one whose identity is to be ascertained by the office which he holds. So then, where a person is indicated in statute not by name but by an official designation a question will arise whether the intention was to single him out as a persona designata, Ram Chandra ...
London
London, the metropolis of England. for a short account of early London, see 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, p. 219.The 'city' of London, which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres and is divided into twenty-six wards, over each of which there is an alderman, and is governed by a lord mayor, who is chosen yearly. As to the customs of the city, see Pulling's Customs of London, p. 5 et seq.The customs of London as to the distribution of intestates' effects are abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.The administrative 'county' of London was established by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40, and consists of the city of London and the various metropolitan parishes in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, which prior to that Act were subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, constituted by the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number o...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Open space
Open space, means it is only with reference to the country that the word 'open' carries the meaning 'free from wood building etc.' Accepting the several meanings of the word 'open' the existence of 7 or 8 scattered trees within the space sixty feet wide all round would not render the entire space any less an open space within the meaning of that expression in the proviso to rule 18(a) of the Madras Places of Public Resort Act II of 1888. It is equally clear that the existence of say one free at one corner of the space would not prevent the space being an open space, Nachimuthu v. Ramaswami Chettiar, 69 MLW 887: (1956) 2 MLJ 556 (DB).By the (English) Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to hold of the use of the public any open spaces within the metropolis. These Acts were extended, with amendments, to ...
Churchwardens
Churchwardens, anciently styled Church Reeves or Ecclesi' Guardiani, the guardians or keepers of the church, and representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for certain purpose, Withnell v. Gartham, (1795) 6 TR 388 (396), and in the City of London they are a corporation for the purpose of holding lands; but beyond that they are only annual officers, Fell v. Official Trustee of Charity Lands, 1898 (2) Ch 59. They are sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by the minister and the meeting together, sometimes one by the minister and another by the meeting, as custom directs. Where there is no custom the election must be according to Canon 89 and s. 13 above, under which they must be chosen by the joint consent of the minister and the meeting, and if they cannot agree, then t...
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