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Home Dictionary Name: mayorLord Mayor's Court in London
Lord Mayor's Court in London. An inferior [Cox v. Mayor of London, (1867) LR 2 HL 239] Court of the king, held before the lord mayor and aldermen. Its practice and procedure were amended and its powers enlarged by the Mayor's Court of London Procedure Act, 1857. In this Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence, the common serjeant (s. 43), or the assistant judge appointed under the Borough Courts of Record Act, 1872. The Mayor's and City of London Court Act, 1920, amalgamated the City of London Court (see that title) (the jurisdiction of which was that of county Court) with the Mayor's Court, and by the County Court Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), s. 186, now to be deemed a county Court, subject to the Mayor's Court Act of 1920, and the London (City) Small Debts Extension Act, 1852, with all its powers, rights and privileges preserved; and see Bowater & Sons Ltd. v. Davidson's Paper Sales, (1936) 1 KB 465. The conjoint Court thus established has all the powers and jurisdictio...
mayor's court
mayor's court : a court in some cities that is usually presided over by the mayor and that has jurisdiction over violations of city ordinances and other minor criminal and civil matters ...
mayoral
Of or pertaining to a mayor as the mayoral limousine...
Mayor's Court, London
Mayor's Court, London. See LORD MAYOR'S COURT....
Mayorality
Mayorality, the office of a mayor....
mayor
mayor : an official elected or appointed to act as chief executive or nominal head of a city, town, or borough ...
ex mayor
a former mayor...
Mayor
Mayor [according to some, anciently written meyr, fr. the British miret, to keep, or fr. the Old English maier, power, not from the Latin major, although maire is the more probable derivation through the lingual corruption of 'major'] the annual chief magistrate of a municipal borough, elected by the councillors under s. 15 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46Vict. c. 50), from among the aldermen or councillors, or persons qualified to be such,' on the 9th November of every year (ibid., s. 61). Ss. 15 and 61 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, have been repealed (except as London) by the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), see ss. 18-20 of that Act. He receives little salary, if any. His principal duties are to act as returning officer at municipal elections, and in certain cases at parliamentary elections, as chairman of the meetings of the council, and as a justice of the peace for the borough...
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, the name of a municipal corporation of a borough to which the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), applies; see s. 8 of that Act (replaced, except as to London) by the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 17 (by which 'citizen' is substituted for 'burgesses' in the case of a city), re-enacting part of s. 6 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1835....
Borough Council
Borough Council, the body representing the bur-gesses of a municipal corporation by virtue of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and consisting of a mayor, alderman, and councillors, the councillors being elected by the burgesses, and the mayor and aldermen by the council. The councillors are elected for three years, one-third of their number going out annually. The aldermen are elected for 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 the 1882 Act, see ss. 17, et seq., of the 1933 Act; but it does not apply to London....
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