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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.

Deputy

25 Geo. 5, c. 53), ss. 11, 12, 15, in case of illness or unavoidable absence; and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 166, enables recorders to appoint deputies in similar

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

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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

Control vest

and makes the authority concerned the sole custodian of the control of the servants and officers of the Municipal Corporation. The term 'control' is of a very wide connotation and amplitude and includes a large variety of

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

Corporation

be conferred on it by the law of its creation just as natural person may, S.S. Dhanoa v. Municipal Corpn., (1981) 3 SCC 431: AIR 1981 SC 1395 (1398). [Penal Code (45 of 1860), s. 21, Cl.

Counter-sign

Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 187, replacing (except as to London) Municipal Cor-porations Act, 1882, s. 141.Also the password in response to a military challenge by a sentinel or guard.

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