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Boundaries are the lines marking the division between two adjacent territories. The boundary may be (a) physical, or (b) national and supported by documentary or other evidence. (a) may consist of walls, fences, hedges or ditches, and the presumption is that the outer line along the top line of the ditch bank furthest from the hedge marks the boundary of the land on which the hedge, if any, is erected, because the owner of the soil would be presumed to throw up the soil on the his own land for the hedge, but this presumption may be rebutted. Simple fences or ditches and walls frequently belong to the owners of both properties in common, see PARTY WALL.Physical boundaries may also be roads or non-tidal streams, see Ad medium fil', or the sea or tidal rives, in which case the high-water mark of medium tides is presumed to be the boundary. Williams Real Property, 23rd Edn., p. 463. (b) Unmarked or imaginary boundaries are generally ascertained by reference to maps or plans, or by descript...
Collections, Street
Collections, Street, the Metropolitan Police District, are regulated by the Street Collections Regulations, 1923 (No. 1133), made under the (English) Police, Factories, etc. (Miscellaneous Provisions), Act, 1916. No collection of money (other than at an open-air meeting) or sale of any article in any street or public place is permitted unless the persons responsible have obtained a permit from the Commissioner of Police. The regulations contain provisions regulating the conduct of collectors and vendors, who must be unpaid and 18 years of age or over. An audited return of the amount received and expenses has to be rendered in a prescribed form....
Juvenile Courts
Juvenile Courts. These courts first received statutory recognition by the (English) Children Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 67).These are now governed by ss. 45 to 49 of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12). The court must 'sit either in a different building or room from that in which sittings of courts other than juvenile courts are held' [s. 47(2)]. (Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 ss. 45-49)The general public also are not admitted to these courts, but bona fide representatives of the Press cannot be excluded [s. 47 (2)]. The Second Schedule of the Act governs the constitution of these courts and in the Metropolitan Police Court District, and they are now held in buildings other than police courts, and consist of a police magistrate and two J.P.'s, one of whom must be a woman. See also Juvenile Courts (Constitution) Rules, 1933 (S.R. & O., 1933, No. 647/L. 20), and CHILDREN....
Public Statutes
Public Statutes. See the (English) Public Statutes (Metropolis) Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Gict. C. 33), which placed public statues in the metropolitan police district under the control of the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings; and for punishment for damage, see the Malicious Damage Act, 1851, s. 29....
London
London, the metropolis of England. for a short account of early London, see 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, p. 219.The 'city' of London, which is not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act, contains only 671 acres and is divided into twenty-six wards, over each of which there is an alderman, and is governed by a lord mayor, who is chosen yearly. As to the customs of the city, see Pulling's Customs of London, p. 5 et seq.The customs of London as to the distribution of intestates' effects are abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.The administrative 'county' of London was established by the Local Government Act, 1888, s. 40, and consists of the city of London and the various metropolitan parishes in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, which prior to that Act were subject to the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, constituted by the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number o...
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...
Water and watercourse
Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4 b.The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and...
Metropolitan Board of Works
Metropolitan Board of Works, a board constituted in 1855 by 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, and elected by vestries and district boards, who in their turn were elected by the ratepayers. The powers, duties, and liabilities of the board were transferred to the London County Council by s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the Local Government Act, 1888....
Paving Acts
Paving Acts. As to Local Government Districts, see the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55); and as to London, see the (English) Metropolitan Paving Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 29) [(English) 'Michael Angelo Taylor's Act'], the (English) Metropolis Management Acts Amendment Act, 1862, s. 77, and the amending Act of 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 54)....
District Boards (UK)
District Boards (UK), in London, constituted by the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, for the management of the sanitary affairs of combinations of parishes not singly represented by vestries. Their powers are transferred to the metropolitan boroughs constituted under the (English) London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14). [See also the (English) London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1934, (c. xl.)]...
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