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Populous place, was defined by s. 32 of the (English) Licensing Act, 1874, as 'any area with a population of not less than 1,000 which by reason of the density of such population the county licensing committee may by order determine to be a populous place.' By s. 3 of this Act the closing hours were made different in towns and 'populous places' from those (1) in London and (2) elsewhere that in London or in towns and populous places. The above definition was repealed and substantially re-enacted by (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, but was repealed by the Licensing Act, 1921. A 'populous place' no longer exists in licensing law....
Population
Population, means the population of the municipal borough as ascertained at the preceding census, Nyamatkhan v. State, AIR 1994 Guj 64.As to the mode of ascertaining the 'population' of a municipal borough according to the returns of the last census, q.v., for the purposes of investment in its stock under s. 1 (m) of the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, see Re Druitt, (1903) 1 Ch 446.Population means the population ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(43)]Means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published. [Constitution of India, Article 243(f)]...
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Population
The act or process of populating multiplication of inhabitants...
Populator
One who populates...
Populous Parishes
Populous Parishes. For their spiritual improvement, see the New Parishes Acts, 1843, 1844, and 1856 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 37; 7 & 8 Vict. c. 94; and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 104); Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Church and Clergy.'...
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...
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
Town
Town, denotes the existence of houses in close proximity, concentration of a large number of people in a comparatively small area, engagement of a bulk of the population in non-agricultural activities, Baliat Sheikh v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1952 Cal 753; State v. Jagdish B. Rao, AIR 1970 Goa, Daman and Diu 54.Town, is an assemblage of buildings, public or private larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government, AIR 1970 Goa 54 (55). (Police Act, 1861, s. 34)1. A center of population that is larger and more fully developed then a village, but that is not incorporated as a city2. The territory within which this population lives, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Ville [fr. tun, Sax.], a tithing or vill; any collection of houses larger than a village. A place 'cannot be a towne in law, unlesse it hath, or in time pasthath had, a church, and celebration of divine service, sacraments, and burials' (Co. Litt. 115 b). 'And it appeareth by Littleton, that a to...
census
census : a usually complete count of a population (as of a state) ;esp : a periodic governmental count of a population that usually includes social and economic information (as occupations, ages, and incomes) see also Article I and Amendment XVI of the Constitution in the back matter ...
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