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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

Development work

to be development work, Calcutta Youth Front v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1988 SC 436 (439). [Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 (59 of 1980), s. 353(2) Expl.] Development works, construction of schools, hospitals and community centres

Disfranchisement

to return a member to Parliament, or a person of a right to vote at a Parliamentary or Municipal Election.

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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

Emphyteusis

the payment of a yearly rent (pensio or canon) to the owner. Formerly the lands of the Roman municipalities, or of the college of priests, used to be let for different terms of years, sometimes for a

Entertainment

includes any exhibition, perfor-mance, amusement, game or sport to which per-sons are ordinarily admitted on payment. [New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (44 of 1994), s. 2(13)] Entertainment, is wide enough to comprehend in it, the luxury

Giving of notice

complete, K. Narasimhiah v. H.C. Singvi Gowda, AIR 1966 SC 330 (332): (1964) 7 SCR 618. [Mysore Town Municipalities Act, 1951 (22 of 1951), s. 27(3)]

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

Exported from

the area for the purpose of being transported out of it', Central India Spinning and Weaving Co. v. Municipal Committee, Wardha, AIR 1958 SC 341: (1958) SCR 1102.

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

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