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Home Dictionary Name: petty constablesPetty Constables
Petty Constables, inferior officers is every town and parish, subordinate to the high constable of the hundred. See CONSTABLE....
Pr'positus vill'
Pr'positus vill', a constable of a town, or petty constable....
Constable
Constable [fr. Comes stabuli, Lat., in the eastern empire a superintendent of the imperial stables, or the emperor's master of the horse, who at length obtained the command of the army], an officer to whom our law commits the duty of maintaining the peace, and bringing to justice those by whom it is infringed.Provision is made for the abolition of the office of High Constable by the (English) High Constables Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 67), and of that of Parish Constable by the Parish Constables Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 92), which Act, however, still allows of their appointment in exceptional cases.By the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 191, in all boroughs to which that Act applies, 'borough constables' are appointed by the Watch Committee, but the (English) Local Government Act,1888, has, in the case of boroughs having a population of less than 10,000 transferred the appointments to the county councils.In counties constables were appointed by the justices of the pe...
Special constables
Special constables, persons appointed by justices of the peace to assist in keeping the peace 'on the oath of a credible witness that any tumult, riot, or felony has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended in any parish, township, or place,' if the justices are of opinion that the ordinary constables are insufficient for that purpose. See Special Constables Act, 1831, s. 8 of which imposes a penalty for each refusal to serve when duly called upon, while s. 2 allows a Secretary of State to order persons to be sworn in though exempt by law, and s. 196 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, by which borough justices 'shall appoint in October in every year so many as they may think fit of the inhabitants of the borough, not legally exempt from serving the office of constable, to act as special constables in the borough.' There are also Acts of 1835 and 1838 dealing with the subject.By the (English) Special Constables Act, 1914, as amended by the (English) Special Constable...
Petty Sessions
Petty Sessions. A meeting of two or more justices of the peace, not being a general or quarter sessions, to transact business with which it is either necessary or desirable that more than one justice should deal. The expression is, however, often used to denote a Petty Sessional Court, which is defined as 'a Court of summary jurisdiction, consisting of two or more justices, sitting in apetty sessional Court-house,' and includes 'any stipendiary magistrate when sitting in a Court-house or place or which he is authorized to do alone any act authorized to be done by more than one justice of the peace.'--(English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 13 (12). The principal business transacted by a petty sessional Court is the trial of minor offences in a summary way without a jury. This power is given by various statutes dealing with particular offences and by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts. There is an appeal from the decision of a petty sessional Court on questions of law and fact to quarter sess...
High Constable
High Constable, abolished by the High Constables Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 47). See CONSTABLE....
Clerk of Justices of the Peace, clerk of petty Sessions, Clerk of Special Sessions
Clerk of Justices of the Peace, clerk of petty Sessions, Clerk of Special Sessions. The duties of these officers are, by the Justices Clerks Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 43), s. 5, performed by the salaried clerk called in the Act; clerk of a petty sessional division.' Such clerk of a petty sessional division.' Such clerk must, by s. 7, be either a barrister of not less than 14 years' standing, or a solicitor, or have served for not less than seven years as a clerk to a magistrate or to a metropolitan police Court....
Constable, relevant (aerodrome)
Constable, relevant (aerodrome), means any constable under the direction and control of the chief officer of police for the relevant police area; Aviation Security Act, 1982, s. 31(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1239, p. 606....
Petty
Little trifling inconsiderable also inferior subordinate as a petty fault a petty prince...
Petty-bag Office
Petty-bag Office, an office belonging to the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for suits for and against solicitors and officers of that Court, and for process and proceedings by extents on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum scire facias to repel letters-patent, etc., Termes de la Ley. The term is derived from the little bag (parva baga) in which original writs relating to the business of the Crown were anciently kept.By the Great Seal Offices Abolition Act, 1884, s. 5, provision was made for the abolition of the office of Clerk of the Petty Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist.The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery is now transferred to the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 18(2)(b)], replacing (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 16).Pew [fr. puye, Dut.; appui, Fr.], an enclosed seat in a church. It is some what in the nature of an heirloom, and may descend by immemorial ...
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