Proclamation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Prorogation
day. Prorogation never extends beyond eighty days, but fresh prorogations may take place from time to time by proclamation. See PARLIAMENT. Under Article 85(2) when the President on the advice of the Prime Minister prorogues the House,
Rem, information in
by the Crown's officers. After such seizure an information was usually filed in the Exchequer, and thereupon a proclamation was made for the owner (if any) to come in and claim the effects, and at the same
Riot Act
more persons assemble unlawfully, to the disturbance of the peace, and do not disperse within one hour after proclamation by a justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, or may or, they are felons, punishable by penal
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Short-ford
tenement shall be adjudged to the lord to hold the same a year and a day; and forthwith proclamation is to be made in the Court, that if any man claim any title to the tenement, he
Territorial Army (English)
Act, 1881, s. 176 (6) (A)]. The Force may be called out immediately upon the issue of a proclamation ordering the Army Reserve (q.v.) to be called out on permanent service. Service is only within the United
Fine
to whom the conusance was made. The chirograph, or inden-tures, was evidence of the fine. A fine without proclamation was a fine at the Common Law, and a fine with proclamations (which was to be proclaimed openly
Holiday, or Holyday
Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving; and the day appointed to be kept
Bank holidays
on the occasion of the outbreak of the war with Germany the August Bank Holiday was extended by Proclamation to four days. See HOLIDAY.
Estrays
towns next adjoining to the place where they are found; and then, if no person claim them, after proclamation and a year and a day passed, they belong to the Sovereign or his substitute, without a redemption,
Edict
A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority as if by the very act of announcement a decree
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