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Workhouses

Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of poor persons. See (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5,

zoning

zoning n : municipal or county regulation of land use effected through the creation and enforcement of zones under local law

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Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by … Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering essential services or, with the control and management of civil services, within a specified local area.

Regulation

and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(r)] The expression 'regulation' in a given case may amount to prohibition, Talcher Municipality v. Talcher Regulated Market Committee, (2004) 6 SCC 178 (181). (Orissa Municipalities Act, 1950) The act or process … SCC 178 (181). (Orissa Municipalities Act, 1950) The act or process of controlling by rule or restriction, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1289. The word 'free' in Article 301 does not mean free-dom from regulation. There

Municipality

have the meaning assigned to it by the Rajasthan Municipality Act, 1959 (38 of 1959) or any other municipal law for the time being in force. [The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 3(c)] Municipality, the word 'Municipality'

Ordinance

In any event it is the determination of the sovereign power of the state as delegated to the municipality. It is a legislative enactment, within its sphere, as much as an act of the State legislature, Municipal … act of the State legislature, Municipal Ordinances, Judith O' Gallagher, 1A, 01 at 3 (2nd Edn., 1998). Ordinance, law, rule, prescript. The precise distinction between an Ordinance and an Act of Parliament is a subject of controversy

Civil Law

every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of … was enabled, in time, to introduce much of the spirit of the Civil Law into the administration of Municipal Law, especially in the Courts of Equity. 'The whole body of the Civil Law' (remarks Chancellor Kent, 1 Comm.

Was being lawfully levied

levied' obviously mean 'was actually levied' and it would not be sufficient to satisfy those words that the Municipal authority could lawfully levy the tax, but had not availed itself of that power, Town Municipal Committee v. … Was being lawfully levied, the words 'was being lawfully levied' obviously mean 'was actually levied' and it would not be sufficient

Equity

Court of Chancery. It is here accepted in a more limited and technical sense, and may be called Municipal Equity, and described as the system of supplemental law administered in Chancery, and founded upon defined rules, recorded

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