Farce - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: farceFarcical
Pertaining to farce appropriated to farce ludicrous unnatural unreal...
Burletta
A comic operetta a music farce...
Farce
To stuff with forcemeat hence to fill with mingled ingredients to fill full to stuff...
Farcing
Stuffing forcemeat...
Force
To stuff to lard to farce...
Mime
A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner an ancient Greek or Roman form of farce...
Salpicon
Chopped meat bread etc used to stuff legs of veal or other joints stuffing farce...
Stage-play
Stage-play. It is enacted by the (English) Theatres Act, 1843 (see THEATRE), s. 23, that:-In this Act the word 'stage-play' shall be taken to include every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, melodrama, pantomime, or other entertainment of the stage, or any part thereof: provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be constructed to apply to any theatrical representation in any booth or show which by the justices of the peace, or other persons having authority in that behalf, shall be allowed in any lawful fair, feast, or customary meeting of the like kind.See Wigan v. Strange, (1865) LR 1 CP 175...
Theatre
Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment of the stage.' By the Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), such a place may not be had or kept without a licence from the Lord Chanberlain of the Household of the sovereign in the metropolis, and from the justices of the peace elsewhere, s. 2 of the Act enacting that:-2. It shall not be lawful for any person to have or keep any house or other place of public resort in Great Britain, for the public performance of stage plays, without authority by virtue of letters-patent from Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or predecessors, or without licence from the Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's household for the time being, or from the justices of the peace as hereinafter provided; and every person who shall offend against this enactment shall be liable to forfeit such sum as shall be awa...
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