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Conscience clause. S. 7 of the (English) Education Act, 1870, prohibits the imposing of an obligation to attend religious worship as a condition of attending a public elementary school, and allows a child to be withdrawn while any religious instruction is being given. See now the (English) Education Act, 1921, s. 72. And see COWPER-TEMPLE CLAUSE; KENYON-SLANEY CLAUSE....
Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education had been dealt with either as a series of individual problems in respect of which provisions were made for the education of special classes of persons, or by executive, as opposed to legislative methods, as, for example, by a system of grants in aid. This Act was followed by a series of Acts, known collectively as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1919, which together established a system of free and compulsory elementary education of a non-denominational character. The initial Act established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent of every child to cause such child to receive efficient elementary educatio...
Conscience, Courts of
Conscience, Courts of, tribunals for the recovery of small debts, constituted by Acts of Parliament in the City of London and other towns. The ordinary constitution of these courts, which were generally for causes of debt to the amount of 40s. only, but often to the amount of 5l. was to examine in a summary way, by the oath of the parties, or other witnesses, and make such order therein as was consonant to equity and good conscience. The county courts established in 1846 have superseded them....
conscience
conscience : exempting persons whose religious beliefs forbid compliance [ laws, which allow physicians…to refuse to participate in abortions "W. J. Curran"] ...
Conscienced
Having a conscience...
Clause
Clause, means a clause the article in which the ex-pression occurs. [Constitution of India, Art. 366(5)]A distinct section or provision of a legal documentor instrument, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 243.Clauses, means a series of numbered parts into which a Bill is divided; a descriptive title is printed in the margin of each clause, Parliamentary Practice; Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 463The main clauses of a bill in the Indian Parliament are: (i) Extent clause, (ii) Commencement clause, (iii) Definition clause, (iv) Rule making clause etc., Practice and Procedure by Parliament, M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 537....
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English)
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English) (8 & 9 Vict. C. 18), amended by 23 & 24 Vict. C. 106, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18, applicable to England and Ireland, the Public Act of Parliament whereby railway companies and other public bodies, authorised by special Act of Parliament to take the land of individuals for the purpose of such special Act, enter upon and make compensation for the land. Ss. 3 and 5 apply this general Act to every undertaking established by any special Act passed after its date by which the purchase or taking of lands for such undertaking is authorised and incorporate the general Act with such special Act except when or in so far as it is expressly excluded.The (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 59), varied the principles of compensation provided by the Lands Clauses Acts upon compulsory purchase by a Government Department or a local or public authority, inter alia, compensation under the Act of 1919, is to ...
ipso facto clause
ipso facto clause : a clause in an agreement stipulating the consequences (as termination of a lease or acceleration of a payment) of the insolvency of one of the parties called also bankruptcy clause ipso facto bankruptcy clause NOTE: An ipso facto clause is invalid under the Bankruptcy Code because a trustee is not bound by any provision or applicable law that is conditioned on the debtor's insolvency. ...
penalty clause
penalty clause 1 : a clause (as in a contract) that calls for a penalty to be paid or suffered by a party under specified terms (as in the event of a breach) and that is usually unenforceable NOTE: A penalty clause differs from a liquidated damages clause by not being tied to an estimate of possible actual damages. 2 : a clause in a statute or judgment that sets forth a penalty for a specific act or omission (as failure to make a support payment on time) ...
Continuation clause
Continuation clause. In English time policies it has been usual to provide by a clause attached to the policy, called the continuation clause, that if at the end of the period of insurance the ship is at sea, the insurance may be extended until her arrival at some port, Arnould's Marine Insurance, 8th Edn. P. 570. The Finance Act, 1901, (1 Edw. 7, c. 7), s. 11,provides that a policy of sea insurance shall not be invalid on the ground only that by reason of such a clause it may become available for a period exceeding twelve months, and a continuation clause is for this purpose defined as an agreement to the effect that in the event of the ship being at sea or the voyage otherwise not completed on the expiration of the policy, to subject-matter of the insurance shall be held covered until the arrival of the ship, or for a reasonable time thereafter not exceeding thirty days....
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