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Churchwardens
Reeves or Ecclesi' Guardiani, the guardians or keepers of the church, and representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for
Lighting and Watching Act, 1833
Wm. 4, c. 90), superseding 2 Go. 4, c. 27. An Act which may be adopted in any parish by the votes of a majority of two-thirds of the ratepayers, and which, if adopted, regulates the lighting
Local authority
Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for
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Casting vote
Council (Local) Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 75), and the chairman of a parish meeting, or Parish Council (Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), Sched. I., Pt. 2,
Allotments
Allotments. Many (English) Acts (see chit. Stat., tit. 'Allotments') have been passed authorizing parish officers to let out to poor persons small quantities of parish land or land originally allotted under inclosure
Tithe Rent-Charge
considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of the tithes in that parish, and to be afterwards apportioned among the lands of that parish, having regard to their average tithable produce
Sanitary authority
and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such councils, and 'local' authority means the council of a borough; urban
Petty-bag Office
the doping of repairs, see Stileman-Gibbara v. Wilkinson, (1897) 1 QB 749, and see Bathurst (Earl) v. Cirencester Parish, 1921 P. 381. All other pews and seats in the body of a church are the property of
Meeting
v. Stephenson, (1934) 1 Ch 171; and see Kyd on Corporations, Vol. 1, p. 400; or of the parish or parish council: see PARISH COUNCIL; PARISHMEETING. Also a meeting of the shareholders of a company under ss.
Marriage
c. 76), which requires publication of banns on three successive Sundays before marriage in the church of the parish wherein the parties dwell, or in the churches of the parishes wherein each of the dwells, if they
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