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Administrative business
Administrative business, the business of managing conducted in private by persons having complete discretion, as distinguished from judicial business, which is conducted in Court under specific rules … of the Court, which means hostile litigation between parties. Formerly also certain business transacted at Quarter Sessions now transferred to County Councils by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888.
Chancery
sale and distribution of proceeds of property subject to a lien or charge; execution of trusts, charitable or private; rectification, setting aside, or cancelling deeds or other written instruments; specific performance of contracts between vendors and purchasers … the highest court of judicature in this kingdom next to Parliament. Its powers and jurisdiction were in 1875 transferred to (I.) The High Court of Justice, and (II.) The Court of Appeal [(English) Jud. Act, 1873, ss.
Sessions of the peace
special session is a sitting of two or more justices, held not of their own mere motion and private agreement, but on a particular occasion for the execution of some given branch of their authority, after reasonable … Wm 4, c. 32; for pawnbrokers' certificates under 35 & 36 Vict. c. 93 (these two functions were transferred to district councils by 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73); and licences for theatres outside the Lord Chamberlain's
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Person of unsound mind
Found to be of unsound mind upon inquisition (see that title), and a further classification is into a private certifiable patients and rate-aided certifiable patients. Voluntary and temporary patients will be admitted or received into the charge … disease or age, incapable of managing their affairs. The powers and duties of the Commissioners in Lunacy were transferred to the Board of Control by the (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, s. 65. The Lord Chancellor's Visitors,
Account or Accompt
year a profit and loss account and balance sheet, to copies of which shareholders of all companies, except private companies, are entitled. See ss. 122 and 131 of the Act (and for contents) s. 124. The regulations … causes and matters for the taking of partnership or other accounts are assigned (subject to a power of transfer) to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. If the plaintiff in the first instance desires
Stamp duties
the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes. The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous … of the revenue. With respect to very large classes of instruments, being either (1) Bonds, (2) Conveyances of Transfers, (3) Leases or Agreements for Leases, (4) Mortgages whether legal or equitable, or (5) Settlements, the Act of
sale
of property conducted by an authorized official by order of a court : forced sale in this entry private sale : an often unadvertised sale of property that is not open to the general public and does … sale 1 a : the transfer of title to property from one party to another for a price ;also : the contract of such
Injunction
may direct a 'stay of proceedings.' Amongst public nuisances, restrainable either upon information or at suit of a private person immediately grieved by them, may be enumerated obstructions to highways and bridges, public rivers and harbours, and … alienation of property; the negotiation of bills of exchange and promissory notes obtained by fraud or collusion; the transfer of stock; the receipt of dividends; the sale of specific chattels; the vex-atious alienation of real property pendente
Highways
in some cases it attaches (by prescription) to particular townships, or other divisions of parishes, and occasionally to private persons bound ratione tenur', or in right of their estates, to repair some particular highway. Highways in general … urban authorities. The Minister of Transport, under Roads Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 72), has transferred to him powers of the Road Board, and can make advances out of the Road Fund to any
Office of profit
Act, (22 of 1951), s. 14] A person, who is employed in an educational institution managed by a private society and receiving a grant-in-aid from the government is not a holder of an office of profit and … 52 of the Representation of the People Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), allowed Ministers to transfer from one office to another without re-election provided that the office is one of those mentioned in the
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