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Market

Ch 78, it was held that any member of the public has a right of access to a franchise market on payment of tolls and observance of bye-laws for the purpose of conducting sales, and that a

Occupier

the Poor Relief Act, 1601, 43 Eliz. c. 2, and as 'inhabitant occupier' and entitled to the parliamentary franchise, under the Representation of the People Acts, 1867 and 1884, now a person liable to pay rates by

Ouster

see Halsb. L.E., officers of a corporation, see Halsb. L.E., sub tit. 'Corporation'; and upon forfeiture of a franchise for a market or fair (ibid.), sub tit. 'Markets and Fairs.' Ouster does not mean actual driving out

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Public meeting

Seditious Meetings Act, 1817. As a result of disturbances created by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by s. 1 provides as follows:- 1.-(1)

Wreck

royal grant (s. 522). This revenue of wrecks was frequently granted to lords of manors as a royal franchise. It is a branch of the coroner's office to inquire concerning shipwrecks and certify whether there has been

Rent

and entry. Small rent-charges were frequently granted for the mere purpose of qualifying the grantee for the parlia-mentary franchise, as a forty-shilling free-holder, under 8 Hen. 6, c. 7, but this kind of qualification was abolished by

Residence

959], and for the meaning, extent or interpretation of the word under statutes, see the particular statute, e.g., franchise, burial company law, jurisdiction of courts, divorce, income tax, juries, poor law, local government, etc. see DOMICIL. Residence

Reve

Reve, means the bailiff of a franchise or manor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1319.

Reve, or Greve

Reve, or Greve, the bailiff of a franchise or manor, an officer in parishes within forests, who marks the commonable cattle

Scot and lot voters

Scot and lot voters, voters in certain boroughs en-titled before the Reform Act of 1832 to the franchise in virtue of their paying this contribution; the rights of those living in 1832 were reserved by that

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