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Incorporation
Incorporation, the formation of a legal body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, except as limited by the Royal Charter or Act of Parliament effecting the incorporation. Municipal Boroughs … the Royal Charter or Act of Parliament effecting the incorporation. Municipal Boroughs are incorporated by their charters; County Councils by s. 79 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41); see also
Petroleum
Petroleum, includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other shales or … shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. See also London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1912, Part II.; London Building Act, 1930, s. 99; and EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES; OIL IN NAVIGABLE
Land Drainage Act, 1930
repeals all prior Land Drainage Acts, as well as many other Acts relating to drainage, and consolidates the existing law with amendments. Commissioners of Sewers are abolished. A system is set up to provide for the care … main river and general supervision over the drainage of the area and Drainage Boards (with representation of County Councils and County Borough Councils) in that area. In each catchment area the internal Drainage Boards are constituted on
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Reason to believe
form a belief that will impel him to take action under law, A.K. Subbaiah v. Karnataka State Bar Council, Bangalore, AIR 2002 Kant 410. (See also Advocates Act, 1961, s. 35) Reason to believe, must be supported … Partap Singh v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1985 SC 989: (1985) 3 SCC 72. Means that reasons should exist but the court will not go into the adequacy of such reason, Manchand & Co. v. CIT, West
Thames
and works within the said portions of rivers and creeks: Provided that no dock, lock, canal, or cut, existing at the passing of this Act and constructed under the authority of Parliament and belonging to any body … and no bridge over the river Thames or the river Kennet belonging to or vested in any county council or municipal authority or to or in any railway company shall be deemed to form part of the
Sewer
of the Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), and, with certain exceptions, vests all existing and future sewers within the district of a local authority in such authority, and places the under its … such sewers, and for compelling the use of them by persons within the district. See Wood Green Urban Council v. Joseph, 1908 AC 419, under the Act of 1875. Any local authority is authorized for the purpose
New building
Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 68), s. 11, new building 'includes any addition to an existing building.' The question whether any building is a 'new building' is in general one of fact, see Ballard … case of temporary buildings (q.v.), Rodwell v. Wade, (1924) 23 LGR 174; and Keeling v. Wirral Rural District Council, (1925) 23 LGR 201. S. 23 of the (English) Public Health Act (Amendment) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7,
Open space
Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to … 'open' carries the meaning 'free from wood building etc.' Accepting the several meanings of the word 'open' the existence of 7 or 8 scattered trees within the space sixty feet wide all round would not render the
Church Discipline Act (English)
by inquiry before the bishop with assessors, with an ultimate appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Bishop of Lincoln v. Wakefield, 1921 AC 813. The Act is repealed and superseded as to offences against … against any clerk in holy orders 'charged with offence against the laws ecclesiastical or concerning whom there may exist scandal or offence against the said laws' (whether concerning doctrine, see Voysey v. Noble, (1870) LR 3 PC
Idiot
Geo. 5, c. 33), s. 1, idiots being defined (s. 1 (a) as 'persons in whose case there exists mental defectiveness of such a degree that they are unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers.' The … control is vested in a central body styled 'the Board of Control' (ss. 21 et seq.), and County Councils and Borough Councils are constituted committees for the purposes of the Act (ss. 27 et seq.). The (English)
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