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Session, Court of, in Scotland
Session, Court of, in Scotland, the supreme civil Court of Scotland, instituted A.D. 1532, and formerly consisting of fifteen judges-that number being reduced in 1830, by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 69, s. 20, to thirteen; viz., the Lord President, the Lord Justice-Clerk, and eleven ordinary lords. This Court is required, by 48 Geo. 3, c. 151, to sit in two divisions; the Lord President, with three ordinary lords, form the first division; and the Lord Justice-Clerk and there other ordinary lords form the second division. There are five permanent Lords Ordinary, attached equally to both divisions, the last appointed of whom officiates on the bills, i.e., petitions to the Court during session, and performs the other duties of junior Lord Ordinary. The chambers of the Parliament House, in which the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Session hold their sittings, are called the Inner House; those in which the Lords Ordinary sit, as single judges, to hear motions and causes, are collecti...
Reclaiming
Reclaiming, the action of a lord pursuing, pro-secuting, and recalling his vassal, who had gone to live in another place without his permission. Also the demanding of a thing or person to be delivered up or surrendered to the princeor State it properly belongs to, when by some irregular means it has come into the possession of another.The procedure of appeal to the Inner House from the Outer House of the Court of Session in Scotland (except in jury cases)....
Outer
Being on the outside external farthest or farther from the interior from a given station or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place opposed to inner as the outer wall the outer court or gate the outer stump in cricket the outer world...
House, Houses
House, Houses, See Special Reference No. 1 of 2002 (In Re Gujarat Assembly Matter, (2002) 8 SCC 237. [Constitution of India, Article 174(1)]As to what will pass under a grant of a 'house,' see St. Thomas's Hospital v. Charing Cross Ry.Co., (1861) 1 J. & H. at p. 404, per Wood, V.-C.; Co. Litt. 5 b. As to a devise of a 'house,' see Theobald on Wills; Jarman on Wills.Malicious injuries to houses by tenants, or by means of explosive substances, are punishable by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 97), ss. 9 and 13.'House 'under the Public Health 1936 Act, s. 43, means a dwelling-house, whether private or not; under the Housing Act, 1936, s. 187, includes any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances; under the Rent Restriction Acts, 1920-1935, a dwelling-house means a house let as a separate dwelling or a part of a house being a part so let (1933, s. 16); for other definitions, see respective statutes.The word 'house' would in its ordinary sense include any building irrespect...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Bar of the House
Bar of the House, in the Lok Sabha, the Bar consists of a wooden Bar placed between two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker makes an announcement about it in the House and emphasizes the solemnity of the occasion and asks the members to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is brought in and he stands at the Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501.In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes persons who are not peers. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 24.Bar of the House, in the House of Commons, the Bar consis...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Prolocutor of the Convocation House
Prolocutor of the Convocation House, an officer chosen by ecclesiastical persons publicly assembled in convocation by virtue of the sovereign's writ; at every Parliament there are two prolocutors, one of the upper house of convocation, the other of the lower house, the latter of whom is chosen by the lower house, and presented to the bishops of the upper house as their prolocutor, that is, the person by whom the lower house of convocation intends to deliver its resolutions to the upper house, and have its own house especially ordered and governed: his office is to cause the clerk to call the names of such as are of that house, when he sees cause, to read all things propounded gather suffrages, etc., Jac. Law Dict....
Disorderly houses
Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping such houses are encouraged, and see also s. 13 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 3, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING....
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