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Extradition

by the courts in deciding, whether extradition should be granted and on what terms, is determined by the municipal law of the land. Extradition is founded on the broad principle that it is in the interest of

Excise duty

be levied only on such goods as are manufactured or produced within the State, Shroff and Co. v. Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, 1989 Supp 1 SCC 347: 1988 Supp (2) SCR 406. Excise duty is a

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

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Coroner

with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in counties by the County Council, under s. 5 of the (English) Local Government

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.

Comity of Nations

ascertained in the same way, and guided by the same reasoning, by which all other principles of the municipal law are ascertained and guided, Story's Conflict of Laws, s. 38, and see Westlake's Pr. Intern. Law.

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

Compound

building or a cluster of buildings being available to the occupiers of such building for their exclusive use, Municipal Board Saharanpur v. Imperial Tobacco of India Ltd., (1999) 1 SCC 566. Individual compound of a building the

Consolidation Acts (English)

the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act,

Constable

36 Vict. c. 92), which Act, however, still allows of their appointment in exceptional cases. By the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 191, in all boroughs to which that Act applies, 'borough constables' are appointed by

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