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Statutum sessionum

Statutum sessionum (the statute-sessions), a meeting in every hundred of constables and householders, by custom, for the ordering of servants, and debating of differences between masters and servants, rating

Statute staple

Statute staple, a bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, in the presence of the constables of the staple, or one of them; the only seal required for its validity was the seal of

Public Authorities, Protection of

Public Authorities, Protection of. Very numerous statues have from time to time protected justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of highways, local boards and other public authorities from vexatious actions for things done in pursuance of

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Harbouring

Harbouring. This constitutes an offence in the case of (1) constables on duty [see, however, Sherras v. de Rutzen, (1895) 1 QB 918, and (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910

Music

of 1902 having been discovered in Ex parte Francis, (1903) 1 KB 275; the Act of 1906 empowers constables to arrest, without warrant, sellers of music notified to the chief officer of police by the owners as

Lighting and Watching Act, 1833

'by gas, oil, or otherwise' (s. 45), and the appointment (s. 39), employment, and dismissal of watchmen or constables therein. The Act may be abandoned in three years after adoption (s. 15). The Act was repealed as

Intoxicating liquor

the police at anytime (s. 81). They are subject to penalties for permitting drunkenness or gaming for harbouring constables or prostitutes, for sale to children under 14 (see CHILDREN), and other offences (ss. 65-85). In some cases

Indecent prints or books

to metropolitan or other stipendiary magistrates, or any two justices of the peace, to issue special warrants to constables for the searching of houses, etc., in which obscene books, pictures, etc., are suspected to be kept, on

Constabulary, airport

Constabulary, airport, means in relation to an airport owned or managed by the secretary of State, the special constables appointed under the Civil Aviation Act, 1982, s. 5 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1241,

Billeting soldiers

and other Acts, but s. 102 of the Army Act annually suspends these Acts, and s. 104 obliges constables to provide billets. s. 104 subjects all innkeepers, etc., to the billets, and exempts private houses. The accommodation

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