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Burgh

Act, 1892, Amendment Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 18). Important changes have been made by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 50).

Burgessess

Burgessess [fr. burgeise, O.E.; burgeois, O. fr.; birgensis, Lat.], generally the inhabitants of a borough or walled town; sometimes restricted to the magistrates, etc., of corporate towns, and sometimes to the representatives of a borough in...

Building Acts (English)

(which were public general Acts), and their amending enactments wee repealed and re-enacted with many amendments by the local and personal London Building Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. ccxiii.), and its amending Acts of 1898

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Borough Funds Acts

dispensing with the consent of owners and rate-payers to incurring expense in opposing bills. See now the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 254 et seq., which consolidates and amends

Borough Council

six years, one half going out every third year. The mayor is elected for one year. The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), has consolidated and amended the relevant sections of

Borough

of the Interpretation Act, 1889) in every Act passed in or after 1890 when used in relation to local government, a town incorporated for the purposes of internal government, and subject to the (English) Municipal Corporations Act,

Baths and washhouses

Baths and washhouses. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234, enables local authorities to provide public baths, wash-houses and bathing places, and make bye-laws for these if under their management;

By-laws, or bye-laws

chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7. County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249; may make by-laws for the

Bathing, sea

B & Ald 268, followed by the Court of Appeal in Brinckman v. Matley, (1904) 2 Ch 313. Local authorities may make regulations as to bathing by virtue of ss. 231-234 of the Public Health Act, 1936.

Barbed-wire

it, means barbed wire which may probably be injurious to persons or animals lawfully using such highway. A local authority can require the removal of barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but

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