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Plurality
Plurality, majority; in greater number than one. The holding of more than one ecclesiastical benefice is very much restricted.The (English) Pluralities Act, 1838 (repealing the former statute against pluralities, 21 Hen. 8, c. 13), as amended by the (English) Pluralities Measure, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, No. 7), provides that two benefices may be held together, by dispensation of the archbishop on the recommendation of the bishop, if the churches be within four miles of each other, and if the annual value of one does not exceed 400l....
League
League [ligue, Fr.; ligo, Lat.], a treaty of alliance between different states or parties. it may be offensive, or defensive, or both. It is offensive when the contracting parties agree to unite in attacking a common enemy; defensive when the parties agree to act in concert in defending each other against an enemy.Also a measure equal to three English miles, or 3,000 geometrical paces....
Light Railway
Light Railway. Light railways, on which engines and carriages of eight tons weight or less may be brought upon the rails by any one pair o wheels, and the speed of trains is not to exceed twenty-five miles an hour, could and still can be authorized by the Board of Trade under s. 27 of the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119).These powers have been little, if at all, exercised; but the (English) Light Railways Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48), established a Light Railway Commission for the purpose of authorizing light railways, with special aid from the Treasury in certain circumstances and cases. By the (English) Light Railways Act, 1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners were continued for five years and several amendments made in the Act of 1896. See also Part V. of the (English) Railways Act, 1921....
London Commissioners to administer oaths
London Commissioners to administer oaths. In pursuance of s. 2 of 16 & 17 Vict. c. 78 (repealed by the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889), persons practising as solicitors, within ten miles from Lincoln's Inn Hall, at their respective places of business were from time to time appointed by the Lord Chancellor to administer oaths. See, further, COMMISSIONER FOR OATHS...
Merton, Statute of
Merton, Statute of (20 Hen. 3, c. 4, A.D. 1235), the first Act of Parliament passed, so called because it was enacted at the Priory of Merton, in Surrey, about nine miles from London. Its principal unrepealed provisions (1) allow the inclosure or 'approvement' of commons by lords of manors, provided that the freeholders have sufficient pasture (subject to the consent of the (English) Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (56 & 57 Vict. c. 57); (2) declare the illegitimacy of children born before marriage (see LEGITIMACY). It was in connection with provision (2) that the barons declared against any alteration, notwithstanding the request of the bishop that the law should be altered. 'Omnes Comites et Barones,' runs the statute, 'una voce responderunt quod nolunt leges, Angli' mutare qu' usitat' sunt et approbat'.' See BASTARD; INCLOSURE....
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...
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51).Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
Physician
Physician, one who professes the art of healing.The necessity of placing under supervision the practitioners of physic and surgery appears early in the statute-book; for by the still unrepealed 3 Hen. 8, c. 11, it is enacted, that no person within London or seven miles thereof, shall practise as a physician or surgeon without examination and licence of the Bishop of London or Dean of St. Paul's (duly assisted by the faculty); or beyond these limits without licence from the bishop of his diocese or his vicar-general similarly assisted, sav-ing the privileges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The superintendence of the bishops was taken away by a royal charter dated 23rd September, 1858 (10 Hen. 8), which incorporated the physicians. By 14 & 15 Hen. 8, c. 5, this charter was confirmed, and a perpetual college of physicians established with a constitution of eight elects, etc. The subsequent history of the college is sufficiently traced in 23 & 24 Vict. c. 66, which provides fo...
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
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