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House, Houses, See Special Reference No. 1 of 2002 (In Re Gujarat Assembly Matter, (2002) 8 SCC 237. [Constitution of India, Article 174(1)]As to what will pass under a grant of a 'house,' see St. Thomas's Hospital v. Charing Cross Ry.Co., (1861) 1 J. & H. at p. 404, per Wood, V.-C.; Co. Litt. 5 b. As to a devise of a 'house,' see Theobald on Wills; Jarman on Wills.Malicious injuries to houses by tenants, or by means of explosive substances, are punishable by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 97), ss. 9 and 13.'House 'under the Public Health 1936 Act, s. 43, means a dwelling-house, whether private or not; under the Housing Act, 1936, s. 187, includes any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances; under the Rent Restriction Acts, 1920-1935, a dwelling-house means a house let as a separate dwelling or a part of a house being a part so let (1933, s. 16); for other definitions, see respective statutes.The word 'house' would in its ordinary sense include any building irrespect...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Bar of the House
Bar of the House, in the Lok Sabha, the Bar consists of a wooden Bar placed between two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker makes an announcement about it in the House and emphasizes the solemnity of the occasion and asks the members to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is brought in and he stands at the Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501.In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes persons who are not peers. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 24.Bar of the House, in the House of Commons, the Bar consis...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Prolocutor of the Convocation House
Prolocutor of the Convocation House, an officer chosen by ecclesiastical persons publicly assembled in convocation by virtue of the sovereign's writ; at every Parliament there are two prolocutors, one of the upper house of convocation, the other of the lower house, the latter of whom is chosen by the lower house, and presented to the bishops of the upper house as their prolocutor, that is, the person by whom the lower house of convocation intends to deliver its resolutions to the upper house, and have its own house especially ordered and governed: his office is to cause the clerk to call the names of such as are of that house, when he sees cause, to read all things propounded gather suffrages, etc., Jac. Law Dict....
Disorderly houses
Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping such houses are encouraged, and see also s. 13 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 3, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING....
Speaker of the House of Commons
Speaker of the House of Commons. This great officer is the organ or spokesman of the Commons; in modern times he is more occupied in presiding over the deliberations of the House than in delivering speeches on their behalf. The principal duties of the Speaker are the following:-To preside, as Chairman of the House, at its debates when not in committee; to give a casting vote, when the votes are equal, which according to practice he gives in favour of a motion or bill (he has no original vote); to read to the sovereign petitions or addresses from the Commons, and to deliver in the royal presence, whether at the palace or in the House of Lords, such speeches as are usually made on behalf of the Commons; to reprimand persons who have incurred the displeasure of the House; to issue warrants of committal or release for breaches of privilege; and to communicate in writing with any parties, when so instructed by the House. In the case of Bills introduced under the provisions of the (English) ...
Business of the House
Business of the House, in the House of Commons, it is not rigidly fixed. The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth -- Philip Laundy, p. 64.Business of the House, in the Indian Parliament, the business of the House is divided into (1) Government business, (2) Private Member's business; Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 407.Business of the House, means the relative order of all the items of business in the House of a legislature to be taken upon a particular day. The office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Philip Laundy, p. 64.Business of the House, consists of Government business, Private member's business and the business transacted in opposition time, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, pp. 270 and 271....
House of Lords
House of Lords, a constituent part of Parliament, being composed of the lords spiritual and temporal.The upper chambers of British parliament, of which the 11 member judicial committee provides judge who serve as the final court of appeal in most civil cases, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The lords temporal are dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons. The number of British peerages of different ranks has been greatly augmented from time to time, and there is no limitation to the power of the Crown to add to it by fresh creation.The lords temporal consist of: (1) peers of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain, and of England; (2) the representative peers of Scotland and Ireland; (3) life peers, i.e., Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The Lord High Chancellor presides.Bankrupts are disqualified from sitting or voting by s. 32 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883.The assent of the House of Lords was formerly essential to the passing of any act of Parliament, but its powers in this respect had b...
Houses of Parliament
Houses of Parliament, are the two chambers of a bicameral Parliament, namely, the Upper House and the Lower House, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, Edn., p. 207.The two Houses of British Parliament are (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons; each House has distinctive duties, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 747....
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