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Dancing hall, 'dancing hall' as understood in the ordinary parlance is a place where dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life. In the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a 'restaurant' where a proper dancing floor is provided and the guests entertain themselves by using the floor to the tune of live or recorded music. Simply because the recreation in the shape of dancing is provided along with a posheating place would not make it different than a 'dancing hall' where drinks and eatables are also invariably provided, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. East India Hotels, AIR 1995 SC 419 (423): (1994) 5 SCC 690. [Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951 (33 of 1951), s....
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51).Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Place of public amusement
Place of public amusement, s. 2(k) 'place of public amusement' means any place where music, singing, dancing, or game or any other amusement, diversion or recreation or the means of carrying on the same is provided, to which the public are admitted either on payment of money or with the intention that money may be collected from those admitted and includes a race course, circus, theatre, music hall, billiard or bagatelle room, gymnasium, fencing school, swimming pool or dancing hall. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978) s. 2(e)]...
Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
Moot-hall, or Moot-house
Moot-hall, or Moot-house, council-chamber, hall of judgment, town-hall....
Stationers' hall
Stationers' hall. The (repealed) Copyright Act, 1842, authorized, in every case of copyright, the registra-tion of the title of the proprietor at Stationers' Hall, and provided that, without previous registration, no action should be commenced, though an omission to register did not otherwise affect the copyright itself. It was founded A.D. 1553.002 Hall. Hist. Lit., pt. 2, c. 8, p. 366. This registration is now unnecessary; see (English) Copyright Act, 1911...
Dancing
Dancing. See MUSIC AND DANCING LICENSES....
Moot hall
A hall for public meetings a hall of judgment...
Hall
Hall, s. 2(k) 'Hall' means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of a college or of an Institution, maintained by the University, Tezpur University Act, 1993 (45 of 1993).Means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of a College or of an Institution, maintained by the university. Mizoram University Act, 2000 (8 of 2000), s. 2(k).Means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, of a College or of an Institution maintained by the University. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Act, 1994 (58 of 1994), s. 2(k)....
Town Hall
Town Hall, the hall where the public business of a town is transacted, and on or near the door of which, in the case of a municipal borough, public notices are directed to be fixed by s. 232 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (repealed except as to London). See Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 288....
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