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Honorary Freemen

Honorary Freedom of Boroughs Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. C. 29), by which the council of any municipal borough may admit to be honorary freemen of the borough persons of distinction, and any persons who have

Enjoy

a good or profitable thing or as something desirable, as we enjoy many privileges (Webster's Dictionary) see also Municipal Corporation Chandigarh v. Shantikunj Investment Pvt. Ltd., AIR 2006 SC 1270: (2006) 4 SCC 109: (2006) 3 JT

District Council

District Council: (1) Urban, the name given to an urban sanitary authority, not being the council of a municipal borough, by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which Act abolished plural

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Cesses

1935 but the nature and content of the legislative power under both are the same, Kunwar Ramnath v. Municipal Board, (1983) 3 SCC 357: AIR 1983 SC 930. [Government of India Act, 1935 Sch. VII, List II,

Committee

a legislative body or by any corporation or society; e.g., a Committee of a Town Council under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, ss. 22 and 190, and (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (c. 51), s. 75, or

Charges

SCR 665: (1977) 1 SCC 37: AIR 1977 SC 418 (419). Includes all taxes, Shroff and Co. v. Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, 1989 Supp (1) SCC 347. --The term 'charges' must be read ejusdem generis taking

Charter

granting certain privileges or exemptions to any person or body politic (Jacob's Law Dict.) (see, e.g., the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 210) or corporations; e.g., to 'chartered' banking or other trading companies [see 7 Wm.

Citizenship

Citizenship, citizenship is intimately connected with civic rights under municipal law. Hence, all citizens are nationals of a particular State, but all nationals may not be citizens of

City

inhabitants; and urbs, because it is in due form begirt about with walls, Jac. Law Dict. 1. A municipal Corporation, usu. headed by a mayor and governed by a city council. 2. The territory within a city's

Clerk of the peace

5, c. 45), ss. 2, 3, 4. As to appointment, etc., in a quarter sessions borough, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 164.

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