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Fire

provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the … the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fire, but the captain of

Ghatwali tenure

Ghatwali tenure, Ghatwali tenures originated dur-ing the Moghul period, that although the services included police duties, they were in their origin just as much of a military as a civil character and that … much of a military as a civil character and that the tenure could be granted by the ruling power directly to Ghatwal who was to render the services so as to establish a direct privity between the

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Jurisdiction

to the jurisdiction of the ordinary court and the court-martial to decide the case in merits, Delhi Special Police Establishment v. S.K. Lokraiya, AIR 1972 SC 2548 (2551). [Arms Act, (46 of 1950), s. 125] The word … M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697. Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally,

Regulating

Regulating, the word 'regulating' in s. 33(1)(o) of Bombay Police Act, 1951 would include the power to prescribe that permission in writing should be taken a few days

Imprisonment

Payments (Justices Procedure) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 46), as to imprison-ment, detention in a police Court, or supervision in case where money is adjudged to be paid by a court of summary jurisdiction … justices are of opinion that failure to pay was not due to willful refusal or culpable neglect with power to remit all or any of the debt under consideration. Imprisonment for life is a class of punishment

Sovereign power

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County Councils

and the maintenance of county roads. The powers of justices out of session of appointing, etc., the county police belong to the quarter sessions and the county council jointly, and are exercised by a standing joint committee … are transferred from the justices of the peace out of session), and the maintenance of county roads. The powers of justices out of session of appointing, etc., the county police belong to the quarter sessions and the

Fairs

106), was passed for the prevention of the holding of unlawful fairs within the limits of the Metropolitan Police District. As to the powers fo local authorities with reference to fairs, see (English) Public health Act, 1875, … entitled to have a scire facias in the King's name to repeal the letters-patent. If His Majesty grant power to hold a fair or market in a particular place, the lieges can resort to no other, even

Justices

Pritchard's Quarter Sessions. See Chit. Stat., tit. 'Justices,' and SESSIONS OF THE PEACE; QUARTER SESSIONS; PETTY SESSIONS; METRO-POLITAN POLICE; SUMMARY JURISDICTION, COURT OF. … before a judge and jury, upon being satisfied that there is a prima facie case against them. This power is chiefly regulated by 'Jervis's Act' (No. 1), 11 & 12 Vict. c. 42: see, especially, ss. 9,

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