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Traveller. Under the (English) Licensing (Con-solidation) Act, 1910, s. 61 (see INTOXICATING LIQUORS), intoxicating liquors were not to be sold at certain hours except to 'bon' fide travellers,' and by s. 61 (3) a person was not to be deemed a 'bona fide traveller unless the place where he lodged during the preceding night is at least three miles distant from the place where he demands to be supplied with liquor'; but although a man was not a bon' fide traveller unless he had travelled the three miles, he did not necessarily become so by merely having travelled the three miles. The expression bon' fide, which appears to owe its origin to the Scottish Forbes-Mackenzie Act (16 & 17 Vict. c. 67), seems merely intended to point the distinction between those who travel to drink, and those who drink to travel. s. 61 of the Act of 1910 was repealed by the Licensing Act, 1921. Consult Paterson's Licensing Acts.For obligation of innkeepers to entertain travellers, but travellers only, see INNKE...
Township
Township, the district of a town, tithing, or vill, which three are of the same signification in law.-Steph. Com., vol. 1, Introduction. The township is the unit of the early constitutional machinery in England (Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, vol. 1, p. 82), and the boundaries of the parish, and the township or townships with which it coincides, are generally the same (ibid.), 'parish' being properly the ecclesiastical term, and 'township' the civil one.In a government survey a square tract six miles on each side, containing thirty six sq. miles of land 2. In some states, a civil and political subdivision of country, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498...
Marshalsea, Court of the
Marshalsea, Court of the, originally held before the steward and marshal of the royal house of administer justice between the sovereign's domestic servants, that they might not be drawn into other courts, and their service become lost. It held pleas of all trespasses committed within the verge of the Court (twelve miles round the sovereign's residence), where only one of the parties was in the royal service (in which case the inquest was taken by a jury of the country); and if all debts, contracts, and covenants where both of the contracting parties belonged to the royal household, and then the inquest was composed of men of the household only. But this Court being ambulatory, Charles I. erected a new Court of record, called the curia palatii, or Palace Court, to be held before the steward of the household and knight marshal, and the steward of the Court or his deputy, with jurisdiction to hold plea of all manner of personal actions whatsoever which should arise between any parties wit...
Justices
Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...
Indorsement of Address
Indorsement of Address. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IV., it is provided that the solicitor of a plaintiff suing by a solicitor shall indorse upon every writ of summons the address of the plaintiff, and also his own name or firm and place of business, and also, if his place of business shall be more than three miles from the Royal Courts of Justice, another proper place, to be called his address for service, which shall not be more than three miles from the Royal Courts, where writs, notices, etc., may be left for him; and that if he be agent of another solicitor, he shall add the name or firm and place of business of the principal solicitor. See SUMMONS...
Passenger mileage
Passenger miles collectively the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period...
Parasang
A Persian measure of length which according to Herodotus and Xenophon was thirty stadia or somewhat more than three and a half miles The measure varied in different times and places and as now used is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles...
Moon
The celestial orb which revolves round the earth the satellite of the earth a secondary planet whose light borrowed from the sun is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night The diameter of the moon is 2160 miles its mean distance from the earth is 240000 miles and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth See Lunar month under Month...
Moho
The boundary between the earths crust and the semiliquid mantle beneath It varies in depth from 3 miles beneath the surface at certain points in the ocean to over 25 miles under certain parts of continents...
Lava
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length It also issues from fissures in the earths surface and forms beds covering many square miles as in the Northwestern United States...
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