Councillor - Law Dictionary Search Results

Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the Act, and consisting of 'the chairman, aldermen, and councillors.' The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates with amendments the enactments

Municipal corporation

and paid rates for twelve months prior to any July, and have also been enrolled as burgesses. The councillors are elected by the burgesses on every 1st of November. Their term of office is three years, and

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Alderman

special duties of any importance, enacted that they should be in number one-third of the number of the councillors, should remain six years in office (being twice the length of the councillors's period of office), and be

Parish Council

who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office,

Borough Council

municipal corporation by virtue of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and consisting of a mayor, alderman, and councillors, the councillors being elected by the burgesses, and the mayor and aldermen by the council. The councillors are

Privy

accommodation for every house. See Tracey v. Pretty, (1901) 1 KB 444. Privy Council The sovereign nominates privy councillors, and no patent or grant is necessary. The number of the Council is indefinite, and is dependent upon

Amotion

away, a removing, deprivation or ouster of possession. In municipal borough, a removal from his office of a councillor by his fellow-councillors, frequently exercised before the (English) Municipal Corporation Act, 1835, and not expressly abolished either by

Revising Barristers' Courts

held throughout the country each autumn to revise the list of voters for members of Parliament, for town councillors, and for county councillors. A revising barrister was appointed for one year, and was a member of the

Mayor

derivation through the lingual corruption of 'major'] the annual chief magistrate of a municipal borough, elected by the councillors under s. 15 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46Vict. c. 50), from among the

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