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Metropolitan area, means the area declared, or deemed to be declared, under s. 8, to be a metropolitan area. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (k)]...
Magistrate
Magistrate, means the Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or as the case may be, the Metropolitan Magistrate, exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) in the area where the aggrieved person resides temporaily or otherwise or the respondent resides on the domestic violence is alleged to have taken place. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(i)]Means: (1) A man publicly vested with authority, a governor, an executor of the laws. (2) A paid justice of the peace. See STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE; METROPOLITAN POLICE (3) An unpaid justice of the peace. See JUSTICES.The expression 'Magistrate' has been defined to mean a District Magistrate, a Sub-Divisional Magistrate, a Presidency Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to exercise jurisdiction under this Act, State of U.P. v. Kaushaliya, AIR 1964 SC 416 (420): (1964) 4 SCR 1002.The expressio...
Metropolitan Police
Metropolitan Police. The area which is under the control of the Metropolitan Police is the County of London (but not the City), the County of Middlesex, Cryodon, West Ham, and such places within 15 miles of Charing Cross as the King by Order in Council has included. [(English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1829, ss. 2 and 34 and Schedule, and Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, ss. 2 and 5]The (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 33), gives power to appoint an additional assistant commissioner (s. 1), amends the age for compulsory retirement for senior officers (s. 2), makes amendments as to the constitution of the Police Federation (s. 3), gives power to appoint constables for a fixed period (s. 4).The numerous Acts dealing with the Metropolitan Police are collected in Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Police (Metropolis)' and 'Police (London),' and also in an official Metropolitan Police Guide. See also the Police Regulations of 20th August, 1920, as amended by the Police Regula...
Metropolitan City of Delhi
Metropolitan City of Delhi, means the area of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(h)]...
Bills of mortality
Bills of mortality, returns of the deaths which occur within a certain district.It was with the view of communicating to the inhabitants of London, to the Court, and the constituted authorities of the city, accurate information respecting the increase or decrease in the number of deaths and the casualties of mortality occurring amongst them, that the bills of mortality were commenced in London after a visitation of the plague in 1592, but they were not continued uninterruptedly until the occurrence of another plague in 1603, from which period, up to the present time, they have been continued from week to week; excepting during the Great Fire, when the deaths of two or three weeks were given in one bill.In 1605, the parishes comprised within the bills of mortality included the 97 parishes within the walls, 16 parishes without the walls, and six contiguous out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.In 1626, the city of Westminster was included in the bills; in 1636, the parishes of Islington, ...
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
Metropolitan Police Magistrates. There are 25 salaried Metropolitan Police Magistrates (maximum 27) appointed by the Crown to execute the duties of justices of the peace within the Metropolitan Police District. The qualification for this office is having practised as a barrister for at least seven years. Any such magistrate can do alone any act which may be legally done by more than one justice of the peace. there is also special jurisdiction to settle disputes about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value, and to give possession of deserted premises to landlords (see Ston's Justices' Manual). The senior metropolitan Magistrate is ex-officio a justice for Berkshire (Indictable Offences Act, 1848). The Metropolitan Police Courts are: Bow Street, Clerkenwell, Marylebone, Marlborough Street, Westminster, Old Street, Thames, Tower Bridge, Lambeth, Greenwich, Wool...
Fire
Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...
Metropolitan
Metropolitan. An archbishop, PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL ENGLAND, the archbishop of Canterbury, Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Eccl. Law.'...
Metropolitan District
Metropolitan District. Places subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded under the Local Government Act, 1888, by the London County Council), enumerated in Schedules A,B,C, to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855....
Area
Area [Lat., a threshing-floor], (1) an enclosed yard or open place connected with a house; (2) a district for particular purposes, as a school board area, a parliamentary electoral area, a local government district (see Part viii of the Public Health Act, 1875), a Poor Law Union of parishes, as to which, see UNION; (3) Metaphor, the region of discussion; (4) In the London Building Act, 1930, s. 5, contains this definition: 'area' in relation to a building means the superficies of a horizontal section thereof made at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building.'Area' means the area (including all the buildings, structures or other properties comprises therein) specified in the Schedule. [Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya, (33 of 1993), s. 2(a)]An area simpliciter is certainly not a route. Its potentiality to become a route would not make it a route. A route is an area plus something more, C.P. S...
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