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King's Bench
King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso rege, or coram ipsa regina) was a Court of record, and the Supreme Court of Common Law in the kingdom, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace and supreme coroners of the land.This court, which was the remnant of the aula regia, was not, nor could be, from the very nature and constitution of it, fixed to any certain place, but might follow the King's person wherever he went, for which reason all process issuing out of this Court in the King's name was returnable 'ubicunque fuerimus in Anglia.' For some centuries, and until the opening of the Royal Courts, the court usually sat at Westminster, being an ancient palace of the Crown, but might remove with the King as he thought proper to command.The jurisdict...
Woods and forests
Woods and forests. A Government Department which managed the Crown Lands and collected all the Land Revenue of the Crown which goes to the public account. The Department was presided over by two Commissioners, to whom the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries was added as a third Commissioner, ex officio, by the Crown Lands Act, 1906; by Order in Council [S.R. & O. 1924 (No. 1370)] the name of the Commissioners was altered to Commissioners of Crown Lands. See CROWN LANDS; AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, MINISTRY OF....
Vice-President
Vice-President, is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. He presides over the sittings of that House. He enjoys all powers to regulate the debate and proceeding of Rajya Sabha and is also the Head of the Secretariat of that Hose, A Comment-ary on the Constitution of India, Durga Dass Basu, 4th Edn., Vol. 2, p. 388, Constitution of India, Art. 64.Means the Vice-President of the Council. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(v)]...
Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha, is not a subject of dissolution; but one-third of its members retire on the expiration of every second year. [Constitution of India, Art. 83(1)]Rajya Sabha, is the Council of States; the upper House or second chamber of Parliament of India. Constitution of India, Art. 79.Means the legislative council of a state while the state legislative assembly is generally known as Rajya Vidhan Sabha. But in the absence of any authoritative translation of the expression 'State legislative assembly' in Gujarati, the Supreme Court is not guided by the popular rendering of the expression, Virjiram Sutaria v. N.P. Bhavadia, AIR 1970 SC 765: (1969) 1 SCC 77.Members nominated to Rajya Sabha consist of persons having special knowledge or practical experience in literature, science, art and social service. Constitution of India, Art. 80.The representatives of the Union Territories are elected by an electoral college, Representation of Peoples' Act, 1951, section 27A; Constitution of India, Art...
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of the laws relating to the performance of divine service according to the use of the Church of England'it was provided that whensoever a vacancy should occur in the office of official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (see ARCHES COURT), the judge appointed under that Act should become ex officio such official principal, and all proceedings thereafter taken before the judge in relation to mattes arising within the province of Canterbury should be deemed to be taken in the Arches Court of Canterbury. The Court may be set in motion on representation by one archdeacon, or churchwarden, or any three parishioners declaring themselves to be members of the Church of England: (1) that in any church any alteration in or addition to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture thereof...
Poor laws
Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland, that part of Ireland other than the Irish Free State. By the Government of Ireland Act, 1926, s. 1, Northern Ireland consists of six counties: Antrim, Armagh; Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a Parliament of Northern Ireland, consisting of the King, a Senate and a House of Commons. The supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament is preserved. The Royal Assent is given to Bills by the Governor of Northern Ireland. The Senate consists of 24 members, 22 elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, and 2 (as ex-officio members), the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Londonderry. The House of Commons consists of 52 members. Certain legislative powers are reserved for the Imperial Parliament; see ss. 4 et seq. Of the A...
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
Metropolitan Police Magistrates. There are 25 salaried Metropolitan Police Magistrates (maximum 27) appointed by the Crown to execute the duties of justices of the peace within the Metropolitan Police District. The qualification for this office is having practised as a barrister for at least seven years. Any such magistrate can do alone any act which may be legally done by more than one justice of the peace. there is also special jurisdiction to settle disputes about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value, and to give possession of deserted premises to landlords (see Ston's Justices' Manual). The senior metropolitan Magistrate is ex-officio a justice for Berkshire (Indictable Offences Act, 1848). The Metropolitan Police Courts are: Bow Street, Clerkenwell, Marylebone, Marlborough Street, Westminster, Old Street, Thames, Tower Bridge, Lambeth, Greenwich, Wool...
Master of the Rolls
Master of the Rolls [magister rotulorum, Lat.], originally the chief of a body of officers called the Masters in Chancery, of whom there were eleven others, including the Accountant-General. The Master of the Rolls subsequently became a judge of the Court of Chancery, who ranked next to the Lord Chancellor, and had the keeping of the rolls and grants which passed the Great Seal, and the records of the Chancery. All orders and decrees by him made, except such as by the course of the Court, were appropriated to the Great Seal alone, were deemed to be valid, subject, nevertheless, to be discharged or altered by the Lord Chancellor, and were not enrolled till they were signed by the Lord Chancellor, 3 Geo. 2, c. 30.This judge, by the (English) Jud. Act, 1881, s. 2 [see now Jud. (English) Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)], now sits in the (English) Court of Appeal only. Before that Act he was the second judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [Jud. Act, 1873, s. 31 (1)], and also an ...
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