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Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...
Bridge
Bridge [g'fnra, Gk.; pons, Lat.; bric, Sax.], a building erected across a river, ditch, valley, or other place, for the common benefit of travellers. The' Statute of Bridges' (22 Hen. 8, c. 5), (which see, with other statutes, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways (Bridges)'), provides for the rating of the inhabitants of a county or borough for the repair of bridges not repairable by any person ratione tenur'. As to the offence of pulling down, throwing down, or destroying a bridge, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 29 and 33.The management of county bridges is transferred from justices to county councils by s. 3, para Viii., of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888; and by s. 6 of the same Act the county councils may purchase bridges not being county bridges, and may erect new bridges. And see (English) Pub. Health Act, 1936, s. 343. The construction and repair of railway bridges over or under a public highway is mainly regulated by the (English) Rail...
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons 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, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
Parish meeting
Parish meeting. Established for every rural parish by the Local Government Act, 1894 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the case of an election for each of any number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected; bound to assemble annually, or if thee be no parish council, at least twice a year. The proceedings must not begin earlier than 6 p.m. Every question is decided by a majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year, or of the adoption of any 'adoptive Act' (see below) and other questions, any one elector may demand a poll. The chairman of the parish council, or any two parish councillors, or any six r...
Libraries (Public)
Libraries (Public). The (English) Public Libraries Acts, 1855-1890, authorised the establishment, at the expense of the ratepayers, of free public libraries in municipal boroughs, Improvement Act districts, and parishes, in England, by the vote of a majority of two-thirds of the inhabitants, taking by voting papers, 'and not otherwise,' (Act of 1890, s. 2). These Acts were consolidated by the Public Libraries Act, 1892 (55 7 56 Vict. c. 53), amended in the following year by 56 & 57 Vict. c.11, which allowed the Act to be adopted in urban districts by the urban authorities instead of by direct popular vote. In rural parishes the parish councils had this power transferred to them by the Local Government Act, 1894. Land may be taken compulsorily. Libraries under the Act are absolutely free, save that a charge may be made to non-residents for the use of a lending library. The Act of 1892 provided that the library rate was not to exceed one penny in the pound in any financial year, and migh...
Thames
Thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.); defined in s. 3 as meaning and including:-So much of the rivers Thames and Isis respectively as are between the town of Cricklade and an imaginary straight line drawn from the entrance to Gantlet creek in the county of Kent to the City stone opposite to Canve Island in the county of Essex and so much of the river Kennet as is between the Common landing-place at Reading in the county of Berks and the river Thames and so much of the river Lee and Bow creek respectively as are below the south boundary stones in the Lee Conservancy Act, 1868, mentioned and all locks, cuts, and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks:Provided that no dock, lock, canal, or cut, existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body corporate established under such authority, and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any c...
Water and watercourse
Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4 b.The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and...
County boroughs
County boroughs. The 93 boroughs which are named in Part II. of the First Schedule of the (English) Local Government Act, 1923 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), which replaces the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), Sch. III., which named 61. As to the adjustment of financial relations between a county and borough, see Durham County Council and West Hartlepool Borough Council, (1905) 2 KB 340. See LOCAL GOVERNMENT....
Administrative Counties
Administrative Counties. The divisions of the counties of York, Lincoln, Sussex, Suffolk, and Northampton, the county of London, the sixty-one 'county boroughs,' and the other counties of England and Wales, except such parts of them as are not included in London or the country boroughs, form separate 'administrative counties' of themselves for the purpose of managing, through county councils, the administrative business (see COUNTY COUNCIL) of their respective areas. Local Government Act, 1933, s. 1....
Constable
Constable [fr. Comes stabuli, Lat., in the eastern empire a superintendent of the imperial stables, or the emperor's master of the horse, who at length obtained the command of the army], an officer to whom our law commits the duty of maintaining the peace, and bringing to justice those by whom it is infringed.Provision is made for the abolition of the office of High Constable by the (English) High Constables Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 67), and of that of Parish Constable by the Parish Constables Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 92), which Act, however, still allows of their appointment in exceptional cases.By the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 191, in all boroughs to which that Act applies, 'borough constables' are appointed by the Watch Committee, but the (English) Local Government Act,1888, has, in the case of boroughs having a population of less than 10,000 transferred the appointments to the county councils.In counties constables were appointed by the justices of the pe...
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