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Paving Acts. As to Local Government Districts, see the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55); and as to London, see the (English) Metropolitan Paving Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 29) [(English) 'Michael Angelo Taylor's Act'], the (English) Metropolis Management Acts Amendment Act, 1862, s. 77, and the amending Act of 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 54)....
Pave
To lay or cover with stone brick or other material so as to make a firm level or convenient surface for vehicles horses carriages or persons on foot to travel on to floor with brick stone or other solid material as to pave a street to pave a court...
Michael Angelo Taylor's Act (English)
Michael Angelo Taylor's Act (English) (57 Geo. 3, c. xxix.) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Metropolis'), for better paving and regulating the streets of the Metropolis, partly superseded by the (English) Metropolis Management Acts, and the (English) Public Health (London) Acts, which repeal 'as from the coming into operation of any bye-law made for the like object,' s. 73 and other ss. of M.A. Taylor's Act, but leaves unrepealed s. 73 of the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1862, which incorporates M.A. Taylor's Act, so far as in force and not inconsistent with the Act of 1862 and the Acts recited therein....
Taylor's (Michael Angelo) Act
Taylor's (Michael Angelo) Act (English) (57 Geo. 3, c. xxix.), for paving certain streets of London. See MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR'S ACT....
Paving
The act or process of laying a pavement or covering some place with a pavement...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Consolidation Acts (English)
Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these ...
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English)
Interpretation Act, 1889 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63). A most important statute, repealing and re-enacting Lord Brougham's Act of 1850 (13 Vict. c. 21), 'for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament' and other similar Acts, and further shortening such language. By this Act, in Acts passed after 1850, words importing the masculine gender include females, words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular; also, definitions are provided of 'month,' 'land,' 'parish' (see those titles), and other terms.The Act also provides that:-In this Act and in every other Act, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, references to the Sovereign reigning at the time of the passing of the Act or to the Crown shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the Sovereign for the time being, and this Act shall be binding on the Crown (s. 30).Statutory powers to make rules, etc., may be exercised from time to ti...
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English)
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English) (8 & 9 Vict. C. 18), amended by 23 & 24 Vict. C. 106, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18, applicable to England and Ireland, the Public Act of Parliament whereby railway companies and other public bodies, authorised by special Act of Parliament to take the land of individuals for the purpose of such special Act, enter upon and make compensation for the land. Ss. 3 and 5 apply this general Act to every undertaking established by any special Act passed after its date by which the purchase or taking of lands for such undertaking is authorised and incorporate the general Act with such special Act except when or in so far as it is expressly excluded.The (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 59), varied the principles of compensation provided by the Lands Clauses Acts upon compulsory purchase by a Government Department or a local or public authority, inter alia, compensation under the Act of 1919, is to ...
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