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Sanitary Acts

Sanitary Acts, (English) enactments protecting the public health by provisions for the inspection and removal of nuisances, etc.; especially those so called in, and repealed by, Public Health … Sanitary Acts, (English) enactments protecting the public health by provisions for the inspection and removal of nuisances, etc.; especially those

Empire Settlement Act, 1922 (English) (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 13)

Empire Settlement Act, 1922 (English) (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 13), 'to make better provision for furthering British settlement in His Majesty's Overseas Dominions,' provides for the raising up to 1,500,000l. for this

Forage

The act of foraging search for provisions etc

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Impressment

of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service compulsion to serve as the impressment of provisions or of sailors … The act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service compulsion to serve as the impressment of

Endowment

The act of bestowing a dower fund or permanent provision for support

Act of Parliament

Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and

Shop

employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for

Shall

obligatory. Nevertheless, the word 'shall' need not be given that connotation in each and every case and the provisions can be interpreted as directory instead of mandatory depending upon the purpose which the legislature intended to achieve … fatal, State of Punjab v. Shamlal Murari, (1976) 1 SCC 719. Shall, does not always mean that an act is obligatory or mandatory and it depends upon the context in which the word 'shall' occurs and the

National insurance

parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the

Maintenance

father or mother. (CrPC, 1973, s. 125) The expression maintenance referred to in s. 45 and the corresponding provisions is to the maintenance payable to the members of the family and not to a sum payable to … no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11 QBD 1], and invalidates contracts involving it. By the Roman

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