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(1894) 10 TLR 338, the plaintiff failed to recover for a libel in a pamphlet bought by the defendants and placed in the library for public use. … book published in the United Kingdom by s. 15 of the Copyright Act, 1911, but certain classes of publications, e.g., trade advertisements, registers of voters, specifications of Patents, time tables, calendars, etc., may be excepted; see British

Borough Funds Acts

c. 91) (commonly called Leeman's Act), authorized borough councils and governing bodies of other urban districts to apply public funds under their control to promoting or opposing bills in Parliament or to prosecute or defend legal proceedings … to apply public funds under their control to promoting or opposing bills in Parliament or to prosecute or defend legal proceedings in the interest of their constituents, but will not allow of their indemnifying the chief constable

Civil proceeding

regard of the penalty which might be imposed; that the claimants were therefore entitled, to defend themselves through publicly funded legal Assistance; and that the justices had therefore erred in law in deciding that they had no … determinative and having regard of the penalty which might be imposed; that the claimants were therefore entitled, to defend themselves through publicly funded legal Assistance; and that the justices had therefore erred in law in deciding that

VerbarNolle prosequi

prosecute an entry on the record denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit or the attorney for the public a prosecution either wholly or as to some count or as to some of several defendants … for the public a prosecution either wholly or as to some count or as to some of several defendants

Public Authorities, Protection of

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Unclaimed property

property may be dealt with under the heads of (1) Government Stock, (2) Chancery Funds, (3) Stock in Public Companies, (4) Bankers' Balances, (5) Deposits with Bankers for Safe Custody, and (6) Found Property. (1) Government Stock.-The … Funds Act, 1883. They consist of money paid into Court by trustees, or in administration actions, or by defendants in actions. From a parliamentary return in 1900 it appears that they then amounted to 56 millions, their

Lottery

By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games,' all lotteries were declared to be public nuisances, and all grants, patents, or licences for the same to be contrary to law; and the (English) … lot is not essential to a lottery, Barclay v. Pearson, (1893) 2 Ch 154. In that case the defendant had realized more than 20,000l. in one week by a shilling 'missing word competition,' and one of the

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