District Parishes - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lighting and Watching Act, 1833
(29 & 30 Vict. c. 90), s. 35, and is superseded by the (English) Public Health Act in districts where that Act is in fore [see (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), … Wm. 4, c. 90), superseding 2 Go. 4, c. 27. An Act which may be adopted in any parish by the votes of a majority of two-thirds of the ratepayers, and which, if adopted, regulates the lighting
Fire
(English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein … to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English)
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
certified copies obtained at the General Registrar Office, or at the office of the superintendent registrar of the district, or from the clergyman, or registrar, or any other person who shall for the time being have the … marriages, and burials' solemnized according to the rites of the united Church of England and Ireland, 'within all parishes or chapelries in England,' and that Act directs (as also does the Canon) transmission of copies of the
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Bills of mortality
Bills of mortality, returns of the deaths which occur within a certain district. It was with the view of communicating to the inhabitants of London, to the Court, and the constituted … Great Fire, when the deaths of two or three weeks were given in one bill. In 1605, the parishes comprised within the bills of mortality included the 97 parishes within the walls, 16 parishes without the walls,
Husband and wife
of the applicant irrespectively of the amount in dispute) by the judge of the county Court of the district in which either party resides. As to criminal law, if a wife commit a felony, except treason, or … by 5 Geo. 1, c. 8, a husband running away and leaving wife or children chargeable to a parish is liable to have his goods seized and sold to pay for their maintenance; and by the Poor
Tithe Rent-Charge
distress by the tithe-owner was extinguished, and recovery through a receiver appointed by the county Court of the district was substituted for it, except where the land was occupied by the landowner, in which case an officer … considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of the tithes in that parish, and to be afterwards apportioned among the lands of that parish, having regard to their average tithable produce
Valuation list
to be prepared by the rating authority, i.e., the council of every county, borough, or urban and rural district to whom all powers of the overseers of the poor in regard to the levying and collection of … county of London, a list of all the rateable hereditaments in a rating area (and not in a parish) is to be prepared by the rating authority, i.e., the council of every county, borough, or urban and
Registration for preservation
by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), by which district registrars are directed to send copies of registers of births, deaths, and marriages to superintendent registrars, who forward … Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Ecclesiastical Registration.--The 70th Canon made in 1603 directs the churchwardens of every parish to provide a register, and the minister to enter baptisms, marriages, and burials therein; and the (English) Parochial
Rate
value does not exceed 20l. in the Metropolis, or 16l. 5s. or, as a rule, 13l. in other districts. Personal property is not rateable, and stock in trade is expressly excepted by the temporary (English) Poor Rate … 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
Way
dedicate such way. The dedication could be made by a tenant for life and remainderman, Farquhar v. Newbury District Council, (1909) 1 Ch 12, and see Rights of Way Act, 1932, s. 4, as to the rights … does not authorize passengers to go out of the way upon the adjacent land. The inhabitants of a parish are prima facie bound to repair a highway of common right; unless by pres-cription they can throw the
Try the research workspace - 7 days free