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Custom and usage

continuously and uniformly observed for a long time, has obtained the force of law among Hindus in any local area, tribe, community, group or family: Provided that the rule is certain and not unreasonable or opposed to public … continuously and uniformly observed for a long time, has obtained the force of law among Hindus in any local area, tribe, community, group or family: Provided that the rule is certain and not unreasonable or opposed to public

Adoptive Act of Parliament

Act which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner prescribed therein, by the local authorities or inhabitants of that area, e.g.:- The (English) Vestries Act, 1831 (repealed as to rural parishes by

Rural area

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Local needs

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Public order

of every such breach of public order ......... concerns itself with the problem of public order of a local significance ....... in the locality or the community ......, Mohammed Allabux v. State, AIR 1965 Guj 126. Public … of the community taking the country as a whole or even a specified locality. The distinction between the areas of 'law and order' and 'public order' is one of the degree and extent of the reach of

Labourers' dwellings

1851, 1866, and 1867. These Acts might be 'adopted' by the town council of a borough and other local authorities. Upon the adoption of the Acts, corporate land might be appropriated and lodging-houses erected thereon, or money … sanitary authority might frame schemes for the improvement of a body of houses, courts, or alleys, within particular areas. The schemes required the confirmation of the Local Government Board, the Metropolitan Board of Works, or a Secretary

Active duty

[Border Security Force Act, 1968, s. 2 (1)(a)] Means the duty to restore and preserve order in any local area in the event of any disturbance therein. [Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949 (66 of 1949), s. 2

Octroi

the history of octrois and terminal taxes, Court held that 'octrois were taxes on goods brought into the local area for consumption, use or sale', and that 'they were leviable in respect of goods put to some use

Exported from

taking out of goods which had become part and parcel of the mass of the property of the local area and will not apply to goods in transit i.e. brought into the area for the purpose of being

Collector

Official Gazette may, by name or in virtue of his office, appoint to be a Collector in any local area or with respect to any class of persons, for all or any of the purposes of this Act.

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