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local law 1 a : a law limited in application to a particular district within a territory called also local act compare general law, public law b : special law 2 : the laws and legal principles and rules of a state other than those concerned with conflicts of law ...
New building
New building. Under the (English) Road Improvement Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 68), s. 11, new building 'includes any addition to an existing building.'The question whether any building is a 'new building' is in general one of fact, see Ballard v. Horton's Estate Ltd., (1926) 24 LGR 449. So also in the case of temporary buildings (q.v.), Rodwell v. Wade, (1924) 23 LGR 174; and Keeling v. Wirral Rural District Council, (1925) 23 LGR 201.S. 23 of the (English) Public Health Act (Amendment) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53), contained elaborate definitions of a 'new building,' but this section has been repealed as from the 1st October, 1937, by the Public Health Act, 1936, and of which the provisions relating to building and building bye-laws will be found in Part II. of the Act. 'New building' is not defined, but s. 62 provides for the application of bye-laws for the construction, materials, space for, lighting, ventilation, and dimensions of rooms for human habitation, also height of existi...
Turnpike-roads
Turnpike-roads, ways maintained out of tolls not paid by passengers. These did not fall within the operation of the Highway Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 50), but were regulated primarily by the local Acts relative to each particular road, which, though temporary, were, until about the middle of the present century, almost invariably renewed by the legislature from time to time as they were about to expire; and in the next place by statutes of a general description, of which the principal was the consolidating 3 Geo. 4, c. 126, applicable (with very few exceptions) to all turnpike-roads-that is, all roads maintained by tolls, and placed under the management of trustees or commissioners for a limited period of time. This Act, however, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1890, with the exception of such provisions as are applied to dis-turnpiked roads by the Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Acts of 1865 and 1870. There were at one time many thousand turnpike trusts. in 1864 they numbered...
Improvement Act (District)
Improvement Act (District). defined by the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, as 'any area subject to the jurisdiction of any commissioners, trustees, or other persons invested by any local Act with powers of town government and rating.'...
Mersey
Mersey. As to collisions in the sea channels leading to the Mersey, see the Mersey Channels Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 21). The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board is the harbour authority for Liverpool and Birkenhead: see The (English) Mersey Docks Consolidation Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. xcii.); and Mersey Docks Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. xlix.); Local Acts. The Minister of Transport is Commissioner of the Conservancy (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 2....
Bedford level
Bedford level, a tract of fenny land in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton, and Lincoln, drained by the Earl of Bedford in 1649. By the (English) Bedford Level Act (15 Car. 2, c. 17), all conveyances, except leases for seven years, are required to be registered. The practice is to register the instrument at length. The registry does not include wills; but conveyances omitted to be registered are valid for all purposes, except for entitling the grantees to the privileges conferred by the act on the owners of lands within the Level. See also (English) Local Acts and 4 Geo. 4, c. 46....
London
London, the metropolis of England. for a short account of early London, see 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, p. 219.The 'city' of London, which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres and is divided into twenty-six wards, over each of which there is an alderman, and is governed by a lord mayor, who is chosen yearly. As to the customs of the city, see Pulling's Customs of London, p. 5 et seq.The customs of London as to the distribution of intestates' effects are abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.The administrative 'county' of London was established by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40, and consists of the city of London and the various metropolitan parishes in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, which prior to that Act were subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, constituted by the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number o...
Public health
Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to London, and forms the foundation of modern sanitary legislation. It was followed by some twenty nine amending Acts which were repealed and consolidated by the Public Health Act, 1875 (the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), repeals certain sections of this Act, re-enacting them with amendments), which thus formed a sanitary code for England outside the metropolis. This Act has been since amended and extended by subsequent statutes. The latest is the Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), which, as from 1st October, 1937, consolidates many of the provisions of earlier legislation, without, however, repealing parts of the Public Health Acts of 1875, 1890, 1907 and 1925. The Act repeals and replaces among other enact-ments and as from various dates respectively provided by the Act: the whole of the Baths and Wash-houses A...
Special Act of Parliament
Special Act of Parliament. Commonly called Local, Personal or Private Acts. See LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS. That which applies only to a particular kind of persons or things, as a particular railway to be constructed, or otherwise dealing with a particular area or person only, and therefore not overruled by the general terms of a general Act. See Taylor v. Oldham Corporation, (1876) 4 Ch D 410. But the term has received various statutory definitions; see (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 316, and (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 Vict. c. 20), s. 2. See also May's Parl. Pr., etc.; PRIVATE BILLS....
Parochial electors
Parochial electors, the persons entitled to vote at an election of parish councillors shall be the persons entitled to vote by the Representation of the People Acts: see Local Government Act, 1933, s. 53, i.e., the local government electors whose names are on the register of electors: see the R. P. Acts of 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 64), s. 4 (3), and 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 1....
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