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British museum
trustees' of whom three, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, are ex-officio trustees. The museum is entitled to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom … are authorized to store newspapers at 'the Hendon building' by the British Museum Act, 1902, and to lend objects for public exhibition by 14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 23. In Martin v. British Museum Trustees, (1894)
Post impressionism
of painters of the early 1900s or of these groups taken collectively whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo impressionism In a strict … of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only and futurism a theory or
Way
1835, power is given to stop up and divert highways, and the mode of proceeding to effect this object is pointed out. Parties grieved have a right of appeal to the sessions. Bridges are public highways. See … incorporeal hereditament. A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike roads, created and regulated by specific Acts of Parliament, have
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Nuisance
it may be so in a greater degree to some than it is to other (Odgers on the Common Law, p. 230). A public nuisance may give rise to proceedings of different kinds:- (1) It may give … is the concomitant act resulting in danger to the life or property due to likely collapse etc. The object and purpose behind s. 133 of the Code is essentially to prevent public nuisance and involves a sense
Consideration
SATISFACTION. (b) Illegal and impossible consideration. A contract may be illegal because it contravenes the principles of the Common Law, or the special requirements of a statute. The former illegality exists whenever the consideration is founded upon … exists when the act is either expressly prohibited, or when the prohibition is implied from the nature and object of the statute. A contract founded upon an impossible consideration is void; for the law will not compel
Fraud
AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1. A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.). A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment … may be made to extend the operation of the Act to something else which quite foreign to its object and beyond its scope.' (Craies on Statute Law, 7th edn., p. 79) Present day concept of fraud on
Poor laws
a plantation or wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game or rabbits, and fishing, when severed from the occupation … rate is now part of the general rate (see RATES) under the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, the object of which was to consolidate the numerous rules levied by different authorities on differing areas and to enlarge
deposit
with the capacity to contract can make a voluntary deposit. b : the movable property that is the object of a deposit [the depositary is bound to use the same diligence in preserving the that he uses … see also sequestration compare bailment hiring loan for consumption and loan for use at loan NOTE: Like the common-law bailment, the civil law deposit requires either actual or constructive delivery. necessary deposit : a deposit compelled by
Plea
a defendant's answer of fact to a plaintiff's declaration; anciently a suit or action. Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of the Crown, relating to criminal prosecutions. At Common Law pleas … on Pleading, and Ch. Arch. Practice. In equity, a plea was resorted to by a defendant when an objection was not apparent on the bill itself, or, as the technical phrase was, where it arose from matter
Building
and Traffic) Act, (13 of 2003), s. 2(b)] Building includes separate buildings in the ambit used for a common purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 110, p. 93; Richards v. Swansea Improvements and … 1951 and must be construed in its ordinary grammatical sense unless there is something in the context or object of the statute to show that it is used in a special sense different from its ordinary grammatical
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