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Reeve

Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE. A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284. Reeve, means a ministerial … [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE. A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284. Reeve, means a ministerial officer

Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)

1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 62); water works established or carried on by a sanitary or other local authority; workhouses or poor-houses, and any work for which the council of a county, borough, district or parish are

Press

Act gives a general right of admission, there is power by resolution temporarily to exclude the Press. See LOCAL AUTHORITY. There is no longer any censorship of the Press in this country, and any man may write and

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Dangerous structure

Act, 1930 (c. clviii.), ss. 128 et seq, and (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 58, enabling a local authority to apply to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for an order to the owner to repair or demolish … an order to the owner to repair or demolish the structure, and upon failure by the owner the local authority may do the work and shore it up or fence it off; see also Housing Act, 1936.

authority

Matched in: Term authority

Jurisdiction

1 SCR 697. Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally, as where a Court has a quorum, or as to

municipal

restricted to one locality n : a security issued by a state or local government or by an authority set up by such a government usually used in pl. see also municipal bond at bond … compare domestic 2 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of a municipality [the counsel] b : having local self-government [a district] 3 : restricted to one locality n : a security issued by a state or

Searches

(English) LAND CHARGES]. Searches are necessary, not only in the Land Registry, but at the office of the local authority for local land charges. Searches may be made personally in each of the registers under the (English) Land

National insurance

premises not under the control of the employer. (d) (Generally) Employment as an officer or servant of a local or public authority. (e) Employment in plying for hire with a vehicle or vessel the use of which

Local actions

Matched in: Term Local actions

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