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Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing. The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. … before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22

Public authority

Matched in: Term Public authority

Public servant

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use

unnecessary hardship compare taking 2 : use of water for a reasonable or beneficial purpose consistent with the public interest [authorize the diversion of water for beneficial use] conditional use : use of property in a zone … another is entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of it see also trust Statute of Uses in the Important Laws section NOTE: Uses originated in early English law and were the origin of the modern trust. Uses became

Way

may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament. A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and … road made for passengers. 1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587. There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and

Nuisance

according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the … may be so in a greater degree to some than it is to other (Odgers on the Common Law, p. 230). A public nuisance may give rise to proceedings of different kinds:- (1) It may give ground

Newspaper

Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from … of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act includes not merely 'public news' but also 'comments on public news'. Every law report contains the editorial note at the commencement of the decisions printed therein and also comments on some

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order

Matched in: Term Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order

Administrative law

ER 148. Administrative law is understood to mean the law relating to the discharge of functions of a public nature in government and administration. It includes the law relating to functions of public authorities and officers and

Rate

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 … parish or other area. Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268. The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water,

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