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Pr'fectus vill'
Pr'fectus vill' (the mayor of a town).
Record, Courts of
House of Lords, the Judicial Committee, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and a few others. The Mayor's Court of London, the County Courts, Coroner's Courts, and others are Inferior Courts of Record, of which the
War Office
24 to 30]. In boroughs divided by wards, an alderman or, in some cases, a councillor, not the mayor, is returning officer (s. 28). As to district councils, see ss. 36 and 37. Parishes may be divided
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Returning Officer
the returning officer in counties, and in parliamentary boroughs which have a sheriff and in other boroughs the mayor, or in some cases the chairman of the council. As to returning officers at university elections, see Sch.
Revising assessors
Revising assessors, two officers elected by the bur-gesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in revising the parish burgess lists (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 29, and Sch. III.); but their duties
Saint Martin-le-Grand, Court of
formerly lay from the sheriff's courts in the City of London to the Court of hustings, before the mayor, recorder, and sheriffs; and thence to justices appointed by the royal commission, who used to sit in the
Salt duty in London
Salt duty in London, a custom in the City of London called granage, formerly payable to the Lord Mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London, being the twentieth part.
Shepway, Court of
a Court held before the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. A writ of error lay from the Mayor and jurats of each port to the Lord Warden in this Court, and thence to the King's Bench.
Short-ford
there take a stone, or some other dead thing of the said tenement, and bring it before the mayor and bailiffs; and this he must do seven quarter-days successively; and if, on the seventh quarter-day, the lord
Stallage
soil, for the purpose of selling goods in the market': Williams on Rights of Common, p. 295; see Mayor, etc., of Great Yarmouth v. Groom, (1862) 1 H&C 102. 1. The right to erect stalls in public
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