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Public Order Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 6). An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of limitary or similar character, and to make further provision for the preservation of public order on the occasion of public processions and meetings and in public places.S. 1.-Prohibition of uniform in connection with political objects.S. 2.-Prohibition of quasi-military organizations.S. 3.-Confers powers for the preservation of public order on the occasion of processions.S. 4.-Prohibition of offensive weapons at public meetings and processions.S. 5.-Prohibition of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace.S. 6.-Amendment of Public Meeting Act, 1908; see PUBLIC MEETING.S. 7.-Enforcement.S. 8.-Application to Scotland.S. 9.-Interpretation.S. 10.-Short title and extent.A person who commits an offence under s. 2 is liable on summary conviction to a maximum of 6 months' imprisonment ...
Public meeting
Public meeting, a meeting which any person may attend. Any number of persons may meet in any place for any lawful purpose with the consent of the owner of that place; but without such consent, and in any case in the public streets, which are lawfully used for the purpose of passing and repassing only (see the ruling of Charles, J., in the Trafalgar Square case in 1887, and Ex parte Lewis, (1888) 21 QBD 191), there is no 'right of public meeting' known to English law.Political meetings within a mile of Westminster Hall during the session of Parliament are prohibited by the Seditious Meetings Act, 1817. As a result of disturbances created by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by s. 1 provides as follows:-1.-(1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty ...
Sedition
Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter Sessions. See the (English) Unlawful Assemblies Act, 1799 (39 Geo. 3, c. 79); the (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 19), jointly called the '(English) Corresponding Societies Acts,' and much resembl-ing one another. Registered friendly societies are exempted by s. 32 of the (English) Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 25), if transact-ing no business not relating to the objects of the societies; and the (English) Criminal Libel Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, s. 23, which has no parallel in the Act of 1799, political meetings of more than fifty persons within one mile of Westminster Hall, except for parliamentary election purposes, are declared unlawful on any day on which Parliament is sitting. By s. 25 of the Act of 1817, and s. 2 of the Act of 1799, every society or club, the members of...
Incitement to Disaffection Act
Incitement to Disaffection Act, (English) 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 56). This Act provides for the preven-tion and punishment of endeavors to seduce members of His Majesty's Forces from their duty or allegiance; and it is an offence to distribute literature with such an aim among members of His Majesty's Forces; a search warrant may be granted in certain cases. The penalty on indictment may be two years or a fine up to 200l., or on summary conviction, four months' imprisonment or up to 20l., or in either case to both imprisonment and fine. Cf. Public Order Act, 1936....
False news, spreading
False news, spreading, to make discord between the sovereign and nobility, or concerning any great man of the realm, was a misdemeanour, punish-able at Common Law by fine and imprison-ment; which was confirmed by 3 Edw. 1 (Stat. West. Prim.), c. 34; 2 Rich. 2, st. 1, c. 5; and 12 Rich. 2, c. 11, all repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 59). See SEDITION, and also Public Order Act, 1936....
Quarantine, or Quarentaine
Quarantine, or Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are called the widow's quarantine. Marriage during these forty days forfeits the dower. This right was enforced by writ of Quarantina habenda. See 1 Steph. Com.2. A quantity of land containing forty perches, Leg. Hen. I., c. 16.3. A regulation by which communication with persons, ships, or goods arriving from places infected with the plague, or other contagious disease, or liable thereto, is interdicted for a certain period. The term is derived from the Italian quaranta, forty; it being supposed, that if no infectious disease break out within forty days or six weeks, no furth...
Hackney carriages
Hackney carriages. The provisions relating to these vehicles in large towns are contained in the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), ss. 37 et seq., incorporated by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, and in London in the London Hackney Carriages Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 22), which has been amended by many subsequent Acts, of which 6 & 7 Vict. c. 86, and 16 & 17 Vict. cc. 33, 127 and the London Cab and Stage Carriage Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 55), are the most important. In the last-mentioned Act provision for taximeter cabs is made. The conveyance of infected persons in public vehicles is prohibited by ss. 159 and 160 of the Public Health Act, 1936. For orders fixing fares and making other regulations for London cabs, see also the Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43); and London Passenger Trans-port Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 14); Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), and the various statutory rules and orders, and generally, see Chit...
Dangerous structure
Dangerous structure. By s. 75 of the (English) Towns Improvements Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), which is incorporated (see s. 160) (English) in the Public Health Act,1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), any building deemed by the surveyor to be in a ruinous or dangerous state must be pulled down, repaired, or otherwise made secure. This provision is not confined to buildings, etc., adjacent to a highway; see L.C.C. v. Herring, (1894) 2 QB 522, a case decided under the (English) Metropolitan Building Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 122). See also the London Building Act, 1930 (c. clviii.), ss. 128 et seq, and (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 58, enabling a local authority to apply to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for an order to the owner to repair or demolish the structure, and upon failure by the owner the local authority may do the work and shore it up or fence it off; see also Housing Act, 1936....
Mortuary
Mortuary, a burial place. Also, a kind of ecclesiastical heriot, being a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister in very many parishes on the death of his parishioners. Like lay heriots, they were originally only voluntary bequests to the church, being intended as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy for personal tithes and other duties not paid by the deceased in his lifetime. It was usual in ancient times to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it was brought to be buried, and thence it was sometimes called a corpse-present. In the laws of Canute it was called soul-scot or symbolum anim'. See 2 Bl. Com. 425.Mortuaries are limited in amount by the still unrepealed 23 Hen. 8, c. 6, thus: None where deceased died worthless than10 marks; 3s. 4d. where he died worth from 10 marks to 30l. 6s. 8d. where from 30l. to 40l.; and 10s. where exceeding 40l.; but the same Act forbids mortuaries for married, women or children, and prescribes that mortuaries for ...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, 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 power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
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