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By-laws, or bye-laws
v. Johnson, (1898) 2 QB 91. They are binding, unless contrary to law, or unreasonable, and against the common benefit, and then they are void. No trading company is allowed to make by-laws which may affect the … by the chancellor, treasurer, and chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7. County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249;
Meeting
Vict. c. 50), or (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo.5, c. 51), s. 75. By Common Law in the absence of other provisions a corporation is bound by the majority present at a regular … proper majority of votes, whether or not that thing shall be done; e.g., the meeting of the town council under s. 22 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Acts, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), or (English)
Corporation or body politic
has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangible firm, so it can neither be outlawed nor … Public Health Act, 1875; Young v. Corporation of Leamington, (1883) 8 App Cas 517; Lawford v. Billericay Rural Council, (1903) 1 KB 772; Douglass v. Rhyl U.D.C., (1913) 2 Ch 407; Nixon v. Erith U.D.C., (1924) 1
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Divisions of the High Court
more convenient despatch of business, divided into five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the … to the High Court (ss. 5, 16); but s. 32 of the same Act gave the Sovereign in Council power to reduce or increase the number of Divisions or the number of judges attached to each Division;
Messenger
treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance of the Common Law, and, perhaps, were not properly to be divulged in the ordinary course of justice, 2 Hawk. P.C., … s. 9. There are other officers distinguished by this appellation, as the messengers of the Lord Chancellor, Privy Council, and Exchequer, etc. Also, in bankruptcy, persons officially appointed who seize a bankrupt's property. The office of messenger
Corrupt practices
offences punishable by fine or imprisonment, conviction in respect of which disqualifies for membership of the House of Commons and from voting at parlimentary elections or from holding public or judicial office for seven years. Corrupt practices … elections entail similar consequences. Corrupt practices by or in connection with members of public bodies, such as town councils, county councils, local boards, vestries, etc., are epunishable under the (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889 (52&
Back Bencher
Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965), p. 40. Back Bencher is an occupant of a seat in the House of Commons or similar assembly, used for a member not entitled to a front bench seat. The office of the … Philip Laundy & Wilding, p. 33. Back Bencher, neither holds office in Government nor belongs to the inner Councils of the party in opposition, he occupies any but the two front benches in the Chamber, though the
Venue
(English) County Courts Act, 1934, and Rules of Procedure made thereunder. In criminal cases, the rule of the Common Law is that the venue shall be co-extensive with the jurisdiction of the Court. By the (English) Judicature … 23 (4) (replaced by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 72 (1) (g)), the King may by Order in Council from time to time provide for the regulation, so far as may be necessary for carrying into effect
Burgessess
restricted to the magistrates, etc., of corporate towns, and sometimes to the representatives of a borough in the Commons House of Parliament; in and for the purposes of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46
Casting vote
give opportunity for further consideration. So has the mayor or other chairman at a meeting of a town council (English) (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 22, and Sched. II., r. 11), … QB 767, is usually not entitled to vote in the first instance. The Speaker of the House of Commons (though he was no vote in the first instance) has a casting vote, and by the practice of
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