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Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not to remove above five miles from thence, repealed (after long disuse) by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden to come within five miles of a corporate town, and non-conformists were forbidden to teach in any school under heavy penalties; repealed by 52 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 1.A 1665 Act prohibiting Puritan minister from teach-ing or coming within fix miles any town where they had held of the if they refused to pledges that they would not seek to overturn the church of England. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Light Railway
Light Railway. Light railways, on which engines and carriages of eight tons weight or less may be brought upon the rails by any one pair o wheels, and the speed of trains is not to exceed twenty-five miles an hour, could and still can be authorized by the Board of Trade under s. 27 of the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119).These powers have been little, if at all, exercised; but the (English) Light Railways Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48), established a Light Railway Commission for the purpose of authorizing light railways, with special aid from the Treasury in certain circumstances and cases. By the (English) Light Railways Act, 1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners were continued for five years and several amendments made in the Act of 1896. See also Part V. of the (English) Railways Act, 1921....
Emigrant runner
Emigrant runner, any person, other than a licensed passage broker (see that title) or his clerk, who in any port or within five miles of it, for reward, solicits any intending emigrant on behalf of broker or owner or master of a ship, or any lodging-house keeper, or money changer, or other dealer for any purpose connected with the preparations or arrangements for a passage [(English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 347]. Like a passage broker, the emigrant runner requires a license in a county borough of the borough council and in a county district [see (English) Local Government Act, 1894, s. 27 (d)] of the district council....
Escorial
A palace and mausoleum of the kings of Spain being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty five miles northwest of Madrid called also escurial It was erected in 1563 1584 and contains a monastery...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
twelve-mile limit
twelve-mile limit : a limit of a nation's territorial waters extending twelve miles from shore ...
Sea mile
A geographical mile See Mile...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
Car mile
A mile traveled by a single car taken as a unit of computation as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period...
Passenger mile
A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period usually a year the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question...
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