Museum

British museum

British museum, founded in 1752, under the will of Sir Hans Sloane and 25 Geo. 2, c. 22. The museum is governed by a body of trustees' of whom three, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, are ex-officio trustees. The museum is entitled to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom by s. 15 of the Copyright Act, 1911, but certain classes of publications, e.g., trade advertisements, registers of voters, specifications of Patents, time tables, calendars, etc., may be excepted; see British Museum Act, 1932. The trustees are authorized to store newspapers at 'the Hendon building' by the British Museum Act, 1902, and to lend objects for public exhibition by 14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 23. In Martin v. British Museum Trustees, (1894) 10 TLR 338, the plaintiff failed to recover for a libel in a pamphlet bought by the defendants and placed in the library for public use....

Museum. A building or institution for the cultiva-tion of science, favoured by the legislature in the Public Libraries Act, is in the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888, s. 6, and in the (English) Museums and Gymnasiums Act,1891. Powers were transferred to the Board of Education by 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 21, and see the (English) Public Libraries Acts, 1892 and 1919. By the latter Act, 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 93, museums were transferred to the library authority...

University laboratory, University library, Univer-sity Museum or University Institution

University laboratory, University library, Univer-sity Museum or University Institution, means a laboratory, a library, a museum or an institution as the case may be, maintained and managed by the University, whether established by it not. [Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur Act, 2004. s. 2(22)]...

Charitable uses and trusts

Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...

Publisher of libellous matter

Publisher of libellous matter, is liable both civilly and criminally in respect of any such matter he may publish, and his civil liability exists even though the publication takes place without his knowledge. 'Not only the party who originally prints, but every party who sells, who gives, or who lends a copy of an offensive publication will be liable to be prosecuted as a publisher', R. v. Mary Carlile, (1819) 3 B&Ald P. 169, per Bayley, J. if the publisher of a book becomes bankrupt, an author to whom royalties are due is not in anymore favourable position than other creditors, and can only prove for the damages he has sustained by the breach of contract, Re Grant Richards, (1907) 2 KB 33.As to the duty of publishers to send a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom to the British Museum and other libraries, see Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo.5, c. 46), s. 15, and the British Museum Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 34), also BRITISH MUSEUM....

Adoptive Act of Parliament

Adoptive Act of Parliament, an Act which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner prescribed therein, by the local authorities or inhabitants of that area, e.g.:-The (English) Vestries Act, 1831 (repealed as to rural parishes by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894).Also the following, which in rural parishes can only be adopted by Parish Meetings:--The (English) Lighting and Watching Act, 1833. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.'The (repealed) (English) Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1899, and London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Baths.'The (English) Burial Acts, 1852 to 1906. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Burial.'The (English) Public Improvements Acts. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Improvements.'The (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1879--made general in England by Act of 1899: The Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890 (all repealed): The (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,...

Consummation

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his own life, provided he has had issue by her, capable of inheriting. His estate becomes initiate upon birth of a child.Consummation, (1) the completion of a thing; (2) the completion of a marriage between wedded persons by cohabitation.Consummation, defined in Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn., 'the completion of a thing; the completion of a marriage by cohabitation between spouses', Babu S/o Raveendran v. Babu S/o Bahuleyan, (2003) 7 SCC 37.Consumption, means every fact which it is necessary to establish to support a right or obtain a judgment, Sadanandan Bhadran v. Madhavan Sunil Kumar, (1998) 6 SCC 514.The word consumption in its primary sense means the act of consuming and in ordinary parlance means the use of an article in a way which destroys, wastes or uses up that article. But in some le...

Consumption and use

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his own life, provided he has had issue by her, capable of inheriting. His estate becomes initiate upon birth of a child.Consummation, (1) the completion of a thing; (2) the completion of a marriage between wedded persons by cohabitation.Consummation, defined in Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn., 'the completion of a thing; the completion of a marriage by cohabitation between spouses', Babu S/o Raveendran v. Babu S/o Bahuleyan, (2003) 7 SCC 37.Consumption, means every fact which it is necessary to establish to support a right or obtain a judgment, Sadanandan Bhadran v. Madhavan Sunil Kumar, (1998) 6 SCC 514.The word consumption in its primary sense means the act of consuming and in ordinary parlance means the use of an article in a way which destroys, wastes or uses up that article. But in some le...

Bayeux tapestry

A piece of linen about 1 ft 8 in wide by 213 ft long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conquerors expedition to England preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy It is probably of the 11th century and is attributed by tradition to Matilda the Conquerors wife...

Curator

One who has the care and superintendence of anything as of a museum a custodian a keeper...

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