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A shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket...
Electoral roll
Electoral roll, The electoral roll referred to in s. 62(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 must be understood to be the electoral roll that was in force on the last day for making the nominations for the election, Baidyanath Panjiar v. Sitaram Mahto, (1969) 2 SCC 447: AIR 1970 SC 314: (1970) 1 SCR 839.For being eligible to be included in electoral register, one has to be: (1) a resident in that Constituency, (2) should not be subject to any legal incapacity, (3) has to be either a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, (4) has to be of 18 years of age or above on the date of poll, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 26.In U.K., it is known as electoral Register. The Representation of People Act, 1983 provides for the presentation of Registers of Parliamentary electors once a year and all persons who claim to vote must be registered before election, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 28.Is known as 'voters' l...
Roll
Roll, a schedule of parchment that may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe, Staundf. P.C. 11. A list, as a burgess roll, a freeman's roll under the Municipal Corporations Act. All pleadings, memorials, and acts of Court are entered on rolls, and filed with the proper officers, and then they become records of the Court.Means a roll of advocates prepared and maintained under this Act. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) s. 2(1)(b)]1. A record of a court's or public office's proceedings 2. An official list of persons and property subject to taxation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1329...
Roll of Court
Roll of Court, the Court-roll in a manor, wherein the business of the Court, the admissions, surrenders, names, rents, and services of the tenants ae copied and enrolled. 'Copyhold lands are lands holden by copy of Court roll; that is, the muniments of the title are copies of the roll or book in which an account is kept of the proceedings in the Court of the manor to which the lands belong.'-Williams on Real Property. As to custody, an superintendence, of the Master of the Rolls, see COPYHOLD, and Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch....
Rolling stock
Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carri-ages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(a)]By the Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 50), rolling stock of a railway company, when out on sidings, etc., belonging to private occupiers, is exempted from distress for rent due from the occupiers. The rolling stock is protected from execution by s. 4 of the Railway Companies Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 127), made perpetual by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 31.Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carriages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, s. 2(r)]...
finger
finger fin·gered fin·ger·ing : to accuse or identify as guilty [was fingered simply because he fit the stereotype of a young, black street criminal "Jack Ewing"] ...
finger cot
a close fitting sheath worn at the end of a finger for protection of the finger or to avoid soiling the object touched...
Clause Rolls
Clause Rolls [rotuli clausi, Lat.] contain all such matters of record as were committed to close writs; these rolls are preserved in the Tower. See CLOSE ROLLS.Sealed rolls containing royal writs and other documents that the sovereign deemed inappropriate for the public records, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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 ...
Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll
Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll, a roll, called from one Ragimund, or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterwards taxed by the Court of Rome.The term Ragman's-toll also means the list of the barons and men of note who subscribed the submission to Edward I. in 1296, and which was delivered up to the Scots in 1328 (Scott's History of Scotland. Vol. i. p. 162)....
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