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Electric lighting

2. Large powers of supervision are vested in the Board of Trade. By s. 5 that Board may frame rules as to notices, etc., on application for licenses and pro-visional orders; and the rules now in force

Legislation

Legislation, a legislation, it is trite, is not confined to a statute enacted by Parliament or the legislature of a State, which would include delegated legislation and subordinate legislation or an executive order made by the...

Leading question

Leading question, a question which suggests to a witness the answer which the party examining desires. Any question suggesting the answer which the person putting it wishes or expects to receive is called a leading question...

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Labourers' dwellings

and 45 & 46 Vict.c. 54. Under this Act a town council or other urban sanitary authority might frame schemes for the improvement of a body of houses, courts, or alleys, within particular areas. The schemes required

Issue (despatch)

Issue (despatch), the meaning of the word 'issued' has to be gathered from the context in which it is used. Meanings of the word 'issue' given in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary include: 'to give exit...

Interpretation and construction

of the word 'construction' the judges have set themselves in this branch of the law to try to frame the law as they would like to have it, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Hashmatunnisa Begum, AIR 1989

Inns of Chancery

Inns of Chancery, so called because anciently inhab-ited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the Court of Chancery. There were nine of...

Gallows

over either one or two posts, from which male factors are hanged. See EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS. A wooden frame consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam from which condemned criminals are hanged by rope, Black's Law

Forgery, fraud

Forgery, fraud, Forgery has its origin in the French word 'Forger', which signifies 'to frame or fashion a thing as the smith doth his work upon the anvil. And it is used in

Fair trial

of fair trial. The fair trial for a criminal offence consists not only in technical observance of the frame and forms of law, but also in recognition and just application on its principles in substance, to find

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