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Off licence. A justices' licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor not to be consumed on the (English) Premises [Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), s. 110]...
Intoxicating liquor
Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which contain alcohol. Liquor should not only cover alcoholic liquor which is generally used for beverage purposes wand produce intoxication but would also include liquids containing alcohol, State of U.P. v. Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd., AIR 1980 SC 614: (1980) 2 SCR 531: (1980) 2 SCC 441. [Constitution of India, List II, 7th Sch., Entry 8]See also Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1990) 1 SCC 109.Intoxicating liquors. The sale of intoxicating liquors by retail in England and Wales is now mainly regulated by the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), which repealed (see Sched. VII.) the whole or part of thirteen earlier Acts. The effect of this statute is shortly as follows:-1. Grant of Licence.--Defining 'intoxicating liquor' as meaning 'spirits, wine, beer, porter, cider, perry, and sweets, and any fermented, di...
off licence
a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere...
Publicans
Publicans, persons authorized by licence to keep a public-house and retail therein, for consumption on or off the premises where sold, all intoxicating liquors. Publicans (who are also termed 'licensed victuallers') are subjected to a number of restrictions by a series of Acts called the Licensing Acts. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS, and as to the duties and the responsibility of innkeepers, see INNKEEPERS....
Beer
Beer, a liquor, compounded of malt and hops. The selling of it by retail is regulated by various Acts. The (English) Licensing Act of 1828, which did not allow the sale of beer by retail except in 'alehouses,' etc., requiring a licence from justices of the peace-grantable or refusable in their absolute discretion-not being considered to afford sufficient facilities for supplying the public with beer, the (English) Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), was passed to allow any person to retail beer upon taking out an excise licence only.This Act was amended in 1834 by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 85, which drew a distinction between houses for the retail of beer to be drunk on the premises where sold-commonly called beerhouses-and houses for the retail of beer not to be drunk on the premises where sold-commonly called beershops, by requiring that the keeper of a beerhouse should obtain as a condition precedent to his excise license a certificate of good character, signed by six rate payers n...
Petroleum
Petroleum, includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Petroleum (Production) Act, 1934 (UK)]Includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, whether or not it has undergone any processing; but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Pipelines Act, 1962 (UK)]Petroleum, is an oily, inflammable liquid made up mostly of hydrocarbons compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, the New Bank of Popular Science, Vol. 2; Special Reference No. 1 of 2001, In Re (2004) 4 SCC 489.Means liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons are so intimately associated in nature that it has become customary to shorten the expression 'petroleum and na...
Faculties, Court of
Faculties, Court of, a jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and particular places and modes of burial. It has also various powers under 25 Hen. 8, c. 21, in granting licences of different descriptions, as a licence to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a churchyard, to remove bodies previously buried, 4 Inst. 337. The Master of the Faculties (Magister ad facultates) appoints Ecclesiastical notaries, and under the Public Notaries Acts, general notaries are appointed from his office. He has inherent jurisdiction to strike the name of any notary public off the roll of notaries public for misconduct (Re Champion, 1906, P. 86). See Phillimore's Eccl. Law, and see NOTARY....
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