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Borough Courts
particular districts for the convenience of the inhabitants, that they may prosecute small suits, and receive justice at home. In boroughs subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts they are termed 'borough civil courts' and regulated by ss.
British national
Laws of England, Vol. 4, Edn. 4(2), Para 3, p. 5; R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex P Thakar, (1974) QB 684: (1974) 2 All ER 261.
Cards
9 Vict. c. 100), s. 17. An excise duty of 3d. a pack-i.e., any quantity not exceeding 52-on home-made cards is levied by 25 & 26 Vict. c. 22, and a customs duty of 3s. 9d. per
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Cereals
Cereals, the Act extends to home-grown cereals, that is, cereals grown in the United Kingdom being wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale, rapeseed, linseed,
Chance witness
Chance witness, the expression chance witness is borrowed from countries where every man's home is considered his castle and everyone must have an explanation for his presence elsewhere or in another man's
Child in need of care and protection
protection, s. 2(d) 'child in need of care and protection' means a child-(i) who is found without any home or settled place or abode and without any ostensible means of subsistence, (ii) who resides with a person
Cinematograph
the purpose of which inflammable films are used shall not be given unless the regulations made by the Home Secretary are complied with, or elsewhere that in premises licensed under the Act (s. 1). The Act does
Circuits
altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford; (5) Midland; (6) Norfolk; (7) North Wales; and South Wales. By the (English) Judicature
Colony
cession. In the first two cases the territory retains its former laws until they are altered by the home government, i.e., the King in Council, yet subordinate to the authority of Parliament. The alterations may be general
Commerce
for mutual wants. Commerce relates to our dealings with foreign nations, colonies, etc.; trade, to mutual dealings at home, See McCull. Com. Dict.
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