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Bakehouse. Any place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionery from the baking or selling of which a profit is derived. ss. 97-102 of the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), contain various sanitary provisions for the regulation of bakehouses, as defined above in Part II of Sched. VI of the Act. S. 98 enables a Court of Summary Jurisdiction to fine the occupiers of in sanitary bakehouses and to order them to remove the ground of complaint of an inspector or district council. Limewashing, painting or varnishing are prescribed by s. 99, sleeping-places must be specially constructed as required by s. 100. By s. 101 underground bake-houses may not be used without a district council certificate, and by s. 102 it is for the district council to enforce these provisions as to retail bakehouses....
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Council
Council, an assembly of persons for the purposes of concerting measures of state or municipal policy--hence called councillors.A municipal council, commonly called a town council, consists of the mayor, aldermen, and councillors, the councillors being elected by the ratepayers (women included), and the aldermen being elected by the councillors,the term of office of a councillor being three years, and tht of an alderman six. One-third of the councillors go out every year, and one-half of the aldermen (who always number one-third of the councillors) in every third year. See (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 17-23, which repeal and replace (except as to London) (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), ss. 10-14. As to Army Council, county councils, district councils, and parish councils, see those titles....
Vestry, or vestiary
Vestry, or vestiary, a place or room adjoining to a church, where the vestments of the minister are kept; also, a parochial assembly commonly convened in the vestry, to transact the parish business. By custom in some parishes, and by the (adoptive) Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4 c. 60), in others, a select number of parishioners was chosen yearly to manage the concerns of the parish for that year. They were called a Select Vestry.The non-ecclesiastical functions of vestries are now exercised by borough and urban district councils under orders of the Ministry of Health: see (English) Local Government act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), and Local Govt. Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), and in rural parishes by the parish council or meeting (ibid.). As to the ecclesiastical functions in England (election of churchwardens), see Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 13. This measure transferred all such ecclesiastical functions, except ecclesiastical ch...
Emigrant runner
Emigrant runner, any person, other than a licensed passage broker (see that title) or his clerk, who in any port or within five miles of it, for reward, solicits any intending emigrant on behalf of broker or owner or master of a ship, or any lodging-house keeper, or money changer, or other dealer for any purpose connected with the preparations or arrangements for a passage [(English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 347]. Like a passage broker, the emigrant runner requires a license in a county borough of the borough council and in a county district [see (English) Local Government Act, 1894, s. 27 (d)] of the district council....
Passage Broker
Passage Broker, any person who sells or lets steerage passages in any ship proceeding from the British Islands to any place out of Europe, not within the Mediterranean (see Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 341). Such person requires a licence, in London of the justices of the peace, in a county borough of the borough council, and in a county district of the district council. See s. 343 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894....
Occupation
Occupation, also is employed as referring to that which occupies time and attention; a calling; or a trade; and it is only as employed in this sense that the word is discussed in the following paragraphs.There is nothing ambiguous about the word 'occupation' as it is used in the sense of employing one's time. It is a relative term, in common use with a well-understood meaning, and very broad in its scope and significance. It is described as a generic and very comprehensive term, which includes every species of the genus, and encompasses the incidental, as well as the main, requirements of one's vocation calling, or business. The word 'occupation' is variously defined as meaning the principal business of one's life; the principal or usual business in which a man engages; that which principally takes up one's time, thought, and energies; that which occupies or engages the time and attention; that particular business, profession, trade, or calling which engages the time and efforts of an ...
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
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