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corporation

: a corporation (as a bank) authorized to engage in the investment, exchange, or lending of moneyed capital municipal corporation : a political unit created or otherwise given corporate status (as by a charter) by a superior

Council

Council, an assembly of persons for the purposes of concerting measures of state or municipal policy--hence called councillors. A municipal council, commonly called a town council, consists of the mayor, aldermen, and councillors,

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public/individual concerned to such information. It need not necessarily be to sell only or solely for commercial exploitation, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (2002) 4 SCC 219 (227): AIR 2002 SC 1638.

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Burgessess

representatives of a borough in the Commons House of Parliament; in and for the purposes of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), those persons who by one year's residence in a

Brought into and immediate exportation

of goods, by vehicles which merely use the State highways passing through the areas which lie within the municipal limits, Town Municipal Council v. Urmilla Kothari, (1977) 2 SCR 660: (1977) 1 SCC 687 (689): AIR 1977

Borough Courts

the inhabitants, that they may prosecute small suits, and receive justice at home. In boroughs subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts they are termed 'borough civil courts' and regulated by ss. 175-188 of the (English) Municipal Corporations

Amotion

Amotion, a putting away, a removing, deprivation or ouster of possession. In municipal borough, a removal from his office of a councillor by his fellow-councillors, frequently exercised before the (English) Municipal

Freedom of a borough

Freedom of a borough, the right to enjoy the privileges of a freeman. Before the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, these privileges, in many cases valuable either from conferring, especially before the Reform Act, 1832,

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

Direction

to guide and need not always mean a command to obey or carry out implicitly only the instruction, Municipal Corpn. of Greater Bombay v. Bharat Petroleum Corpn. Ltd., (2002) 4 SCC 219 (227). [Bombay Municipal Corporation Act,

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