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Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...
Usufruct
Usufruct, the right of reaping the fruits (fructus) of things belonging to others, without destroying or wasting the subject over which such right extends, Ibid.A right to use another's property for a time without damaging or destroying it, although the property might naturally deteriorate over time, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1542....
Aggrieved person
Aggrieved person, means any woman who is, or has been in a domestic relationship with the respondent and who alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence by the respondent. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(a)]The word aggrieved person, cannot be confined within the bounds of a right formula. Its scope and meaning depends on diverse facts and circumstances of each case, nature and extent of the petitioner's interest and the nature and extent of prejudice or injury suffered by him, Arun Kumar v. Union of India, AIR 1982 Raj 67...
Res
Res, all physical and metaphysical existences, in which persons may claim a right. See Sand. Just.; Cum.C.L. 59.Res generalem habet significationem quia tam corporea quam incorporea, cujuscunque sunt generis, natur', sive speciei, comprehendit. 3 Inst. 182, (The word 'thing' has a general signification, because it comprehends corporeal and incorporeal objects, of whatever nature, sort, or species.)Res, means an object, interest, or status, as opposed to a person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1307....
Rooks
Rooks are animals (fer' natur'), and no action is maintainable for scaring them away from a rookery by discharging guns near it, Hannam v. Mockett, (1824) 2 B&C 934. But see FER' NATUR' and the qualified right of property, and therefore of action, ratione impotenti' in regard to young birds' nests....
Avowry, or advowry
Avowry, or advowry, was a pleading in the action of replevin (see that title), which stated the nature and merits of the defence, and justified or avowed taking the distress in his (the defendant's) own right, which, if established, would entitle him to a judgment de retorno habendo. An avowry was in the nature of a declaration. See Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 22....
Holding
Holding. For the purposes of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), holding is defined [s. 57(1)] as follows: 'Holding' does not include an allotment garden or include any land cultivated as a garden unless it is cultivated wholly or mainly for the purpose of the trade or business of market gardening but, except as aforesaid, means 'any parcel of land held by a tenant which is either wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part agricultural and as to the residue pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not let to the tenant during his continuance in any office, appointment or employment held under the landlord.' The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 10), contains a similar definition in s. 49; also in Scots law to signify the tenure or nature of the right given by the superior to the vassal.Holding is defined by s. 2(2) of the Travancore-Cochin Kanam Tenancy Act, 1955 as a parcel or parcels of l...
Habitatio
Habitatio. The nature of this personal servitude is not obvious. Some jurists confound it with the right to use a house; but Justinian declares it to be quite distinct both from the jus utendi and the jus fruendi. For whilst the jus utendi is one and entire, the habitatio is a series of rights arising from day to day, so that in bequeathing it you make a separate bequest, in fact, for each day; hence, also, it was not extinguished by non-user. justinian added the further distinction, that it might be let, Cum. C.L. 95, and Sand Just....
Absolute nuisance
Absolute nuisance, means interference with a property right that a court considers fixed or invariably such as a riparian owner's right to use a stream in its natural condition, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1094....
Air
Air. As to the right to the enjoyment of air free and unpolluted, see Gale on Easements, and Goddard on Easements; but the claim to air is usually made good under a claim to light and air. The nature and extent of the right to air (which is not a subject of prescription within the Prescription Act) is discussed by Fry, J., in Hall v. Lichfield Brewery Co., (1880) 49 LJ Ch 655, in which damages were given for the obstruction of air to a slaughter-house; and see Bass v. Gregory, (1890) 25 QBD 481, and Chastey v. Ackland, 1897 AC 155....
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