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mailbox
A public box for deposit of mail where it is later picked up by the postal authority for delivery
Edict
A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority as
Public servant
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Tax
'Revenue.' See also DEATH DUTIES; ESTATE DUTY; INCOME-TAX; LAND-TAX. A 'tax' is a compulsory exaction of money by public authority for public purposes enforceable by law and is not payment for services rendered, The Commissioner v. Sri Lakshmindra … AIR 1954 SC 282 (285): (1954) SCR 1005. A tax is a compulsory exaction of money by a public authority for a public purpose enforceable by law and is not a payment for any specific service rendered. The
Rate
the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 229. The rating areas are either urban or rural. The rating authority in each area is the council of the county borough, burough or urban district having jurisdiction over the … Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a
Sewer
catchment area above (Teddington Lock) is to be the conservators of the River Thames. See DRAINAGE. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936, Part II., imposes the duty on every local authority to provide all public sewers which
School
School. See EDUCATION; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; RE-FORMATORY SCHOOLS; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Education.' An institution of learning and education, esp. for children, Black's Law … Anatomy, regulated by 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75, and 34 Vict. c. 16. The local education authority will be liable for injury to a scholar caused by negigence, Ching v. Surrey County Council, (1910) 1
Unauthorised occupation
Unauthorised occupation, in relation to any public premises, means the occupation by any person of the public premises without authority for such occupation, and includes
Libraries (Public)
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Quarantine, or Quarentaine
need be apprehended. Quarantine regulations were embodied in the Quarantine Act, 1825, and kept up by the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, but the (English) Public Health Act, 1896, repealed the Act of 1825, and was amended … the area to which the order relates and the whole or part of the district of any riparian authority specified in the Order with any functions, rights, liabilities of a local authority under that or any unrepealed
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