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Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which contain alcohol. Liquor should not only cover alcoholic liquor which is generally used for beverage purposes wand produce intoxication but would also include liquids containing alcohol, State of U.P. v. Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd., AIR 1980 SC 614: (1980) 2 SCR 531: (1980) 2 SCC 441. [Constitution of India, List II, 7th Sch., Entry 8]See also Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1990) 1 SCC 109.Intoxicating liquors. The sale of intoxicating liquors by retail in England and Wales is now mainly regulated by the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), which repealed (see Sched. VII.) the whole or part of thirteen earlier Acts. The effect of this statute is shortly as follows:-1. Grant of Licence.--Defining 'intoxicating liquor' as meaning 'spirits, wine, beer, porter, cider, perry, and sweets, and any fermented, di...
Licencing authority
Licencing authority, means such officer or authority as may be specified by the State Government to be the licensing authority for the purposes of this Act. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(g)]...
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
Licence
Licence [fr. licentia, Lat.], a permission given by one man to another to do some act which without such permission it would be unlawful for him to do. It is a personal right, and is not transferable, but dies with the man to whom it is given. It can as a rule be revoked by the licensor unless the licensee has paid money for it (Odgers on the Common Law, pp. 25, 574). As to the nature and effect of the licence granted to the purchaser of a ticket for a theatre or other similar entertainment, see Hurst v. Picture Theatres, (1915) 1 KB 1, and the authorities there referred to, and Allen & Sons v. King, (1916) 2 AC 54. It may be either written or verbal; when written, the paper containing the authority is often called a licence. A licence amounting to or coupled with an interest in an incorporeal hereditament must be under seal [see Wood v. Leadbitter, (1845) 13 M&W 838], or it may be revocable, but see Lowe v. Adams, (1901) 1 Ch 598.A licence is necessary before doing many acts, as to ma...
Overcrowding
Overcrowding. By Part IV. of the (English) Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8), s. 58, it is provided that a dwelling-house shall (subject to the provisions of the Act) be deemed for the purposes of the Act to be overcrowded at any time when the number of persons sleeping in the house either.(a) is such that any two of those persons being 10 years old or more of opposite sexes and not living together as husband and wife sleep in the same room, or(b) is in relation to the number and floor area of the rooms of which the house consists, in excess of the permitted numbers defined in the 5th Sched. To the Act, i.e., in effect--TABLE IRooms. Persons.(a) 1 2(b) 2 3(c) 3 5(d) 4 7 1/2(e) 5 10andTABLR II (in the aggregate)Square feet. Persons.110 290 to 110 1 1/270 to 90 150 to 70 1/2Children under 1 year old do not count; from 1 to under 10 are reckoned as half.After the appointed day overcrowding is made an offence on the part of the occupier as well as (subject to statutory provisions)...
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51).Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Driving licence
Driving licence, means the licence issued by a competent authority under Chapter II authorising the person specified therein to drive, otherwise than as a learner, a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle of any specified class or description. [The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (10)]A person would be regarded as being duly licenced only if he has obtained a licence under Chapter II of the Motor Vehicles Act and a person who has obtained a temporary licence which enables him to learn driving cannot be regarded as having been duly licenced, New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Mandar Madhan Tambe, (1996) 2 SCC 328. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (4 of 1939), s. 2(5A)]...
Faculties, Court of
Faculties, Court of, a jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places and modes of burial. It has also various powers under 25 Hen. 8, c. 21, in granting licences of different descriptions, as a licence to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a churchyard, to remove bodies previously buried, 4 Inst. 337. The Master of the Faculties (Magister ad facultates) appoints Ecclesiastical notaries, and under the Public Notaries Acts, general notaries are appointed from his office. He has inherent jurisdiction to strike the name of any notary public off the roll of notaries public for misconduct (Re Champion, 1906, P. 86). See Phillimore's Eccl. Law, and see NOTARY....
Letters of safe-conduct
Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with us can, by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of safe-conduct, which, by drivers old statutes, must be granted under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit. 416. But passports or licences from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and such property is suspected to be in a contracting State, the court may issue a letter of request to a court or an authority in the contracting State for ...
Recorder
Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by the Crown, holding office during good behaviour, and receiving 'such yearly salary not exceeding that stated in the petition on which the grant of a separate Court of Quarter Sessions was made,' as the sovereign directs. He is sole judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, 'having cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by Courts of Quarter Sessions in England,' except that he may not grant licences or hear licensing appeals under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Acts, or levy rates (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, ss. 162, 165). He may appoint as 'deputy recorder' a barrister of five years' standing, in case of sickness or unavoidable absence, and an 'assistant recorder' if it appears that the Quarter Sessions are likely to last more than three days (ibid., s. 168), as amended by the Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act (23 & 24 Geo....
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