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Ineligibility

rule of conduct makes it undesirable, objectionable or punishable for an employee to participate in elections to a local authority, it is a distortion, even an exaggeration out of proportion, of that provision to extract out of

Incorporation

effecting the incorporation. Municipal Boroughs are incorporated by their charters; County Councils by s. 79 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41); see also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 &

Highways

to repair some particular highway. Highways in general are regulated by the Highway Acts, 1835 to 1885; the Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933; Road Traffic Acts, 1930-1934; and Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933; and other

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District Council

name given to an urban sanitary authority, not being the council of a municipal borough, by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which Act abolished plural voting for, and any property

Guardians of the poor

the councils of the counties and county boroughs, who are now the poor law authorities; see the (English) Local Government Act, 1929 (c. 17), s. 1, and (English) Poor Law Act, 1930) c. 17), s. 2 (see

Free-board, or freebord

xlvi., p. 118, free-board is defined as 'a certain limited quantity of land, of a width determined by local custom, varying in different places, lying outside the fence of a manor, park, forest, or other estate, or

Ferry

As to the duties of common ferrymen, see 1 Shower, 140. As to the acquisition of ferries by local authorities, see the (English) Ferries (Acquisition by Local Authorities) Act, 1919. It includes a bridge of boats, pontoons

Estate

2. Bl. Com. cc. vii.-xii. According to article 31-A(2)-- (a) the expression 'estate' shall, in relation to any local area, have the same meaning as that expression or its local equivalent has in the existing law relating

Endowed schools

39), and Wright v. Zetland (Marquess), (1908) 1 KB 63. As to inspection on terms and contributions by local authorities towards cost or free of costs if the Board of Education so decides, see the (English) Education

Passage, Court of

Act, 1893, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Local Courts.' This and an amending Act of 1896 were repealed by a local Act (the (English) Liverpool Corporation Act, 1926 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. lxxiv.), ss. 244-263, providing for

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