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Home Dictionary Name: on street Page: 2Bye-law street
Bye-law street, means a street constructed so as to comply with any bye-laws, regulations or other enactments in force in the district, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 747, p. 546....
By street
A separate private or obscure street an out of the way or cross street...
street name
street name : a brokerage firm's name in which securities owned by another (as an individual investor) are listed (as to expedite transfer at time of sale by avoiding handling of the actual certificates) ...
man in the street
An average person as the views of the man in the street...
Cato street conspiracy
Cato street conspiracy, an extraordinary plot to assassinate the entire Cabinet and get possession of London by means of an armed mob. The scheme was divulged to the authorities by an informer, and the conspirators, the chief of whom was a man named Thistlewood, were apprehended, and five of them brought to trial and executed. See R. v. Thistloewood, (1820) 33 St.Tr. 681; Martineau's History of the Thirty Years' Peace, Bk. II. c. i....
Hikenilde, Ickneal or Ikenild Street
Hikenilde, Ickneal or Ikenild Street, one of the four Roman roads of Britain, leading from St. David's to Tynemouth, thus described by Trevisa:-'The four the is called Heykenyldestrete, and stretcheth forth by Worchestre, by Wycombe, by Byrmyngeham, by Lichefeld, by Derby, by Chestrefeld, by Yorke, and fourth unto Tynmouthe.'Polychron., 1. 1, c. xlv....
Street musician
Street musician (London). See MUSICIAN....
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...
Betting
Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.Bets are irrecoverable at law by virtue of s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...
Public Order Act, 1936
Public Order Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 6). An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of limitary or similar character, and to make further provision for the preservation of public order on the occasion of public processions and meetings and in public places.S. 1.-Prohibition of uniform in connection with political objects.S. 2.-Prohibition of quasi-military organizations.S. 3.-Confers powers for the preservation of public order on the occasion of processions.S. 4.-Prohibition of offensive weapons at public meetings and processions.S. 5.-Prohibition of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace.S. 6.-Amendment of Public Meeting Act, 1908; see PUBLIC MEETING.S. 7.-Enforcement.S. 8.-Application to Scotland.S. 9.-Interpretation.S. 10.-Short title and extent.A person who commits an offence under s. 2 is liable on summary conviction to a maximum of 6 months' imprisonment ...
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