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Watch Committee

borough constables, (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, ss. 5, 190, 191. Prior to this Act, it was a common custom for a town council to constitute the whole of their number the watch committee.

Transfer of Land Acts (English)

land in England. The Acts were practically a dead letter: see Report of Select Committee of House of Commons on Land Titles and Transfers, 1879. Compulsory registration on Order of Council not dissented from by the local

Common Pleas, the Court of

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Superintendent Registrar

appointed by the local authority (replacing the guardians); the authorities are county and county boroughs, and, in London, common council, and metropolitan borough councils [(English) Loc. Gov. Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17)]. They were

Councilman

A member of a council especially of the common council of a city a councilor

Transubstantiation

conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.'-Creed of Pope Pius IV., founded on Ch. iv., sess. xiii., of the Council of Trent. Declaration against Transubstantiation.-A Declaration (commonly called the 'Declaration against Transubstantiation') was required of all members of … sitting in his or her throne in the House of Peeres in the presence of the lords and commons therein assembled or at his or her coronation (which shall first happen),' to 'make subscribe and audibly repeate'

Australasia

the British Dominions. The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 60) [repealed by Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (c. 12)], constituted a Federal Council of Australasia 'for the purpose' (as set

Borough Funds Acts

The (English) Borough Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 91) (commonly called Leeman's Act), authorized borough councils and governing bodies of other urban districts to apply public funds under their control to promoting or opposing

Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

(1886) 16 QBD 761; and these he is at liberty to try and determine, either according to the Common Law of the land, or according to the University Statutes and customs, at his discretion. The judge of … Statute Law o the realm and no longer by the rules of the Civil Law. See Order in Council, August, 1894, applying the Rules of the Supreme Court relating to appeals from County Courts to this Court.

King's Bench

Jud. Act, 1873, to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and by Order in Council under s. 32 of the same Act the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions were in February, 1881, merged … being coram ipso rege, or coram ipsa regina) was a Court of record, and the Supreme Court of Common Law in the kingdom, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justices, who were by their office

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