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Act, 1879. As to the administrative business of quarter sessions, transferred to the county councils by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, see COUNTY COUNCIL. … to district councils by 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73); and licences for theatres outside the Lord Chamberlain's jurisdiction, now granted by county or borough councils, see THEATRE. III. General or Quarter Sessions of the peace, held

District Court

means, in the case of any petition under this Act, the Court of the District Judge within the local limits of whose ordinary jurisdiction, or of whose jurisdiction under this Act the marriage was solemnized or, the

Magna Carta

It has, however, from time to time been necessary and expedient to give to justices and local magistrates jurisdiction to a limited extent in dealing with crimes and quasi criminal matters. This jurisdiction is of two kinds:-(1) … chapters relate to the making of bridges and defending of river-banks, a subject which now forms part of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No sheriff constable, escheator, coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas

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 officer … a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284. Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by

Federal Government

Parliament of Canada, under the Act of 1867, has jurisdiction over all matters not specially assigned to the local legislatures; but that the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia has only such jurisdiction as is expressly vested in it

Diocesan Courts

Diocesan Courts, the consistorial courts of each diocese, exercising general jurisdiction of all matters arising locally within their respective limits, with the exception of places subject to peculiar jurisdiction; deciding all matters of spiritual

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