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private person 1 : an individual who is not a public figure or in the military services 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : a juridical person governed by private law ...
private law
private law : a branch of law concerned with private persons, property, and relationships compare public law ...
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
Private company
Private company. A 'private company' is defined by s. 26 of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, as follows:-Company privately formed by members who subscribe the whole of the capital among them-selves.26. --(1), For the purposes of this Act the expression 'private company' means a company which by its articles-(a) restricts the right to transfer its shares; and(b) limits the number of its members to 50, not including persons who are in the employment of the company and persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the company, were, while in that employment and have continued after the determination of such employment to be, members of the company; and(c) prohibits any invitation to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the company.(2) Where two or more persons hold one or more shares in a company jointly they shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as a single member.S. 27, ibid., provides that if a company alters its articles so that the provisio...
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 ...
Private security agency
Private security agency, means a person or body of person other than a government agency; depart-ment or organization engaged in the business of providing private security services including training to private security guards or their supervisor or providing private security guards to any industrial or business undertaking or a company or any other person or property. [The Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(g)]...
Right of private defence
Right of private defence, the right of private defence of person and property is recognised in all free, civilised, democratic societies within certain reasonable limits. Those limits are dictated by two considerations: (1) that the same right is claimed by all other members of the society and (2) that it is the State which generally undertakes the responsibility for the maintenance of law and order. The citizens, as a general rule, are neither expected to run away of safety when faced with grave and imminent danger to their person or property as a result of unlawful aggression, nor are they expected, by use of force, to right the wrongs done to them or to punish the wrongdoer for commission of offences. The right of private defence serves a social purpose and as observed by the Supreme Court more than once there is nothing more degrading to the human spirit than to run away in face of peril. But this right is basically preventive and not punitive, Gottipulla Venkata Siva Subbrayanam v...
Private
Belonging to or concerning an individual person company or interest peculiar to ones self unconnected with others personal ones own not public not general separate as a mans private opinion private property a private purse private expenses or interests a private secretary...
private
private 1 a : intended for or restricted to the use of a particular person or group or class of persons : not available to the public [a park] b : not related to, controlled by, or deriving from the state [a school] 2 a : owned by or concerning an individual person or entity [ land] b : not having shares that can be freely traded on the open market [a company] 3 : affecting the interests of a particular person, class or group of persons, or locality [ legislation] [ rights] 4 a : not invested with or engaged in public office or employment [a citizen] b : not related to or dependent on an official position [ correspondence] 5 : not known publicly or carried on in public ;esp : intended only for the persons involved 6 : made under private signature [a instrument] ...
Private security guard
Private security guard, means a person providing private security with or without arms to another person or property or both and includes a supervisor. [Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005 (29 of 2005), s. 2(h)]...
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