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Street offences
during public processions. The penalties under each Act are up to 40s., with liability to apprehension by a constable without warrant, the Act of 1847 authorizing imprisonment without the option of a fine. See also COLLECTIONS, STREET;
Third-borough, or Thirdborow
Third-borough, or Thirdborow, an under-constable.
Triumvir
Triumvir, a trithing man or constable of three hundreds. A member of a Government consisting of three.
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Vagrants
and duly convicted thereof. (3) And every person apprehended as a rogue and vagabond, and violently resisting any constable apprehending him, and subsequently convicted of the offence for which he was so apprehended. As to incorrigible rogues,
Window cleaning
the residents, liable to fine up to forty shillings or to imprison-ment up to fourteen days, and any constable of the district is directed to take him into custody without warrant and forthwith convey him before a
Officer in charge of a police station
present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when, the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Night Magistrate
Night Magistrate, a constable of the night; the head of a watch-house, Scots Term.
Metropolitan Police
(s. 2), makes amendments as to the constitution of the Police Federation (s. 3), gives power to appoint constables for a fixed period (s. 4). The numerous Acts dealing with the Metropolitan Police are collected in Chitty's
Borough Funds Acts
defend legal proceedings in the interest of their constituents, but will not allow of their indemnifying the chief constable for costs he has incurred in opposing a licensing appeal at Quarter Sessions, Tynemouth Corporation v. A.-G., 1899
Marischal
Marischal, an officer in Scotland, who, with the Lord High Constable, possessed a supreme itinerant jurisdiction in all crimes committed within a certain space of the Court, wherever it
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