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Pleasure-grounds may be provided by local authorities under the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), s. 164 (this s. coming in place of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 74); and by parish councils under s. 8 of the Local Government Act, 1894, as amended by the Local Government Act, 1933. Rules prescribing restrictions and conditions can be made by virtue of s. 76 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907. See RECREATION GROUNDS....
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Gardens
Gardens. The (English) Town Gardens Protection Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 13), provides for the protection of gardens and ornamental grounds vested in trustees, in squares and other public places, by transfer of such gardens and grounds from the trustees to local authorities or committees of the inhabitants. See also the London Squares Preservation Act, 1931 (22 & 23 Geo 5, c. xciii.) and Housing Act, 1936.As to stealing or destroying any fruit or vegetable production in gardens, etc., see (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 36, 37; and (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 23, 24; Allotments Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 51). See also (English) OPEN SPACES; PARK; LESS; PLEASURE GROUNDS; RECREA-TION GROUNDS; and as to compensation, on quitting, to tenants of market gardens, see MARKET GARDENS....
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...
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 ...
During the pleasure
During the pleasure, the rule that a civil servant holds office at the pleasure of the Crown has its original in the Latin phrase 'durante bene placito' ('during pleasure') meaning that'the tenure of office of a civil servant, except where it is otherwise provide by statute, can be terminated at any time without cause assigned. The True scope and effect of this expression is that even if a special contract has been made with the civil servants the Crown is not bound thereby. In other words, civil servants are liable to dismissal without notice and there is no right of action for wrongful dismissal, that is , that they cannot claim damages for premature termination of their services, State of Bihar v. Abdul Majid, AIR 1954 SC 245 (250): 1954 SCR 786. [Constitution of India, Art. 310(1)]See also Pratap Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1964 SC 72....
Pleasure of Crown
Pleasure of Crown, the rule that a civil servant holds office at the pleasure of the Crown has its original in the Latin phrase 'durante bene placito' ('during pleasure') meaning that the tenure of office of a civil servant, except where it is otherwise provided by statute, can be terminated at any time without cause assigned, State of Bihar v. Abdul Majid, AIR 1954 SC 245 (250). [Government of India Act, 1935, s. 240 (1)]...
Pleasure of the President
Pleasure of the President, the tenure of office of an employee of the Union or the State is only during the pleasure of the President and/or Governor; and accordingly except as provided in the Constitution there can be no justiciable cause available to a Government employee for getting relief in a Court of law, K.P. Shankerlingam v. Union of India, AIR 1960 Bom 431....
Grounds
Grounds, 'Grounds' within the contemplation of s. 8(1) of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971 means 'materials' on which the order of detention is primarily based. Apart from con-clusions of facts, 'grounds' have a factual constituent, also. They must contain the pith and substance of primary facts but not subsidiary facts or evidential details. This requirement as to the communication of all essential constituents of the grounds, Vakil Singh v. State of J&K, AIR 1974 SC 2337: (1975) 3 SCC 545.Grounds mean all the basic facts and materials which have been taken into account by the detaining authority in making the order of detention and on which therefore, the order of detention is based, Khudiram Das v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1975 SC 550: (1975) 2 SCC 81: (1975) 2 SCR 832.'Grounds' in Article 22(5) do not mean mere factual inferences but mean factual inferences plus factual material which led to such factual inferences. The 'grounds' must be self-sufficient and self-expl...
Burial ground
Burial ground, includes a vault or other place where a body is buried, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1187, p. 548.Burial ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set aside for the purpose of interment, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1099, p. 817.Burial ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set apart for the purpose of intermet, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1226, p. 864.The Common Law place of burial is the parish churchyard; but the growth of population and sanitary reasons having made additional burial grounds necessary, these began to be provided by companies specially authorized thereto by local (English) Acts of Parliaments, and in 1847 the Cemeteries Clauses Act (10 & 11 Vict. c. 65), consolidated the provisions usually contained in the local Acts, which thenceforward u...
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