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Master of the Faculties
Master of the Faculties, an officer under the archbishop, who grants licences and dispensations, etc. The judge of the provincial Courts of Canterbury and York appointed under s. 7 of the (English) Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874, became ex officio Master of the Faculties on the first vacancy occurring after the passing of that Act....
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, originally two persons having held high judicial office, or practised at the bar for not less than fifteen years, appointed, with a salary of 6,000l. a year, to aid the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the hearing of appeals (App. Jur. Act, 1876, s. 6). On the death or resignation of any two members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the Crown was empowered to appoint a third and fourth Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (ibid., s. 14), and may now appoint two more in addition to the four (App. Jur. Act, 1913, s. 1), and a further one in addition to the six (App. Jur. Act, 1929, s. 2). Any Lord of Appeal in Ordinary who at the date of his appointment would have been qualified to the appointed an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, or at that date was a judge of that Court, is an ex-officio judge of the Court of Appeal (Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)). Lords of Appeal in Ordinary rank as barons for life and sit and vote in t...
Information
Information, an accusation, or complaint, also, communicated knowledge.Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force. [Right to Information Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]Information in chancery. Where a suit was instituted on behalf of the Crown or Government, or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as the objects of a public charity), the matter of complaint was offered to the Court by way of information by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, and not by way of petition. When a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding was pur...
Appeal, Court of (U.K.)
Appeal, Court of (U.K.), this Court, which was constituted under the Judicature Act, 1873, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Judicature Act,1881, has, by Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 26, vested in it the appellate jurisdiction and powers of the Lord Chancellor and of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, and of the same Court as the Court of Appeal in Bankruptcy and from the County Palatine of Lancaster; of the Exchequer Chamber; and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in appeals in Admiralty causes other than in the Prize Court, or in matters of lunacy. The Court (which usually sits in two divisions) consists of (ex officio) the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and five Lords Justices.The Judges may not sit on appeal from judgments to which they themselves were parties.A puisne judge is occasionally summoned to sit as an additional judge (s. 7).An appeal to this Court lies as of right from any order or judgment ...
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, a body corporate established by the (English) Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 77), the long preamble of which sets out the recommenda-tions as to the more equal distribution of episcopal duties and revenues of two previous Royal Commissions, empowered to suggest measures conductive to the efficiency of the Established Church to be ratified by Orders in Council. Church Estate Commissioners are appointed ex officio members of this corporation. See (English) amending Acts of 1840, 1841, 1850, 1860, and 1873 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 113; 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 94; 23 & 24 Vict. c. 124; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 64); and subsequent Acts; and CHURCH BUILDING ACTS; also (English) Welsh Church Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 91).A group of people empowered to suggest measures to improve the established Church's efficiency, to be rectified by order's in council, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 530....
Criminal information
Criminal information, a proceeding in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice atthe suit of the king,without a previous indictment or presentment by a grand jury. Criminal informa-tions are of two sorts: (1) Ex officio, which is a formal, written suggestion of an offence com-mitted, filed bby the Attorney-General, or, in the vacancy of that office, by the Solicitor-General, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, without the intervention of a grandjury. It lies for misdemeanours only, and not for treasons or felonies. The informationis filed in the Crown Office without the previous leave of the Court. (2) Information by the Master of the Crown Office, which is filed at the instance of an individual called 'the relator,' with the leave of the Court; and usually confined to gross and notorious misdemeanours, riots, batteries, libels, and other immoralities. Criminal informations may also be filed against judges and magistrates for illegal, unjust,and wilfully oppre...
Commissioners of Crown Lands
Commissioners of Crown Lands, the name of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, see the (English) Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Act, 1923, and Order in Council, 1924, S.R.O., 1924 (No. 1370). The Commissioners were incorporated by the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 231); their powers and duties are provided for by this Act. The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries is an ex-officio Commissioner (6 Edw. 7, c. 28)....
Churchwardens
Churchwardens, anciently styled Church Reeves or Ecclesi' Guardiani, the guardians or keepers of the church, and representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for certain purpose, Withnell v. Gartham, (1795) 6 TR 388 (396), and in the City of London they are a corporation for the purpose of holding lands; but beyond that they are only annual officers, Fell v. Official Trustee of Charity Lands, 1898 (2) Ch 59. They are sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by the minister and the meeting together, sometimes one by the minister and another by the meeting, as custom directs. Where there is no custom the election must be according to Canon 89 and s. 13 above, under which they must be chosen by the joint consent of the minister and the meeting, and if they cannot agree, then t...
Chief Justice of England
Chief Justice of England, the presiding judge in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, President of the High Court, and also an ex-officio judge of the Court of Appeal (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 5, Jud. Act, 1875, s. 6) [now Judicature Act, 1925, s. 6(2)]. The full title is, 'Lord Chief Justice of England,' abbreviated L.C.J.The 'Levies of the Chief Justices of England' down to that of Lord Mansfield (who was appointed in 1756, resigned in 1788, and died in 1793) was brought out by Lord Campbell in 1849....
Chairman
Chairman, 'Chairman' according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary means a person chosen to preside over meetings, e.g., one who presides over the meetings of the Board of Directors. In Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Ed., p. 230, the same expression is defined as a name given to a Presiding Officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Ed., pp. 189-190, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, 2nd Ed., p. 299, and Aiyer's Judicial Dictionary, 11th Ed., p. 238. The function of the Chairman would, therefore, be to preside over meetings, preserve order, conduct the business of the day, ensure that precise decisions are taken and correctly recorded and do all that is necessary for smooth transaction of business. The nature and duties of this office may vary depending on the nature of business to be transacted but b...
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