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Public property, means any property, whether immovable or movable (including any machinery) which is owned by, or in the possession of, or under the control of--(i) the Central Government; or(ii) any State Government; or(iii) any local authority; or(iv) any corporation established by, or under, a Central, Provincial or State Act; or(v) any company as defined in s. 617 of the Companies Act, 1956; orany institution, concern or undertaking which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984 (3 of 1984), s. 2 (b) (i)]...
Public Order Act, 1936
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
Public, includes a section of the public. The word 'public', includes in its ordinary acceptation, any section of the public, Venkataraman Devani v. State of Mysore, AIR 1958 SC 255: (1958) SCR 895: (1985) SCJ 382: (1958) 1 Andh WR (SC) 109: (1958) 1 Mad LJ 109 (SC).Is a term of uncertain import, used with many different shades of meaning; public policy, public rights of way, public property, public authority, public nuisance, public house, public school, public company, Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. C 61.Public, is ordinarily used with reference to a joint body of citizens. It means that it is shared in or participated in or enjoyed by people at large, Otherwise, it is common to all the people, Azam Khan v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (1972) 2 Andh WR 288: (1972) Mad LJ (Cr) 674.The word 'public' includes any class of the public or any community. [Penal Code, 1860, s. 12]...
Public street
Public street, means any street, road square, court, alley, passage or riding path over which the public have a right of way whether a thoroughfare or not and includes (a) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway; (b) the foot-way attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway; and (c) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, veranda, or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadway up to the boundaries of the adjacent property, whether that property is private property or property belonging to the government. [Madras City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, s. 2(20)]Public street, shall mean any street--(i) heretofore levelled, pared, mettaled, channeled sweered or repaired out of municipal or other public fund; unless before such work was carried out, there was an agreement with the proprietor that the street should not thereby become a public street, or unless such work was done wit...
Unclaimed property
Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed 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 National Debt Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 71), ss. 51 et seq., as extended by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 provides that stock on which no dividend has been claimed for ten years must be transferred to the National Debt Commissioners. Lists of names in which the stock stood, with residence, description and amount of stock and date of transfer, are to be kept at the Bank of England [or Ireland, but see 13 Geo. 5, c. 2, s. 6 (d)] and at the National Debt Office, open to inspection, and also kept in duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A sec...
Public trustee
Public trustee. The office of Public Trustee was established by the (English) Public Trustee Act, 1906, which came into force on 1st January, 1908. The Public Trustee is a corporation sole, and may if he thinks fit act in the administration of estates of deceased persons if under one thousand pounds; act as custodian trustee [see that title, and Re Cherry's Trusts, (1914) 1 Ch 83]; act as an ordinary trustee; be appointed to be a judicial trustee (see that title); be appointed administrator of the property of a convict under the Forfeiture Act, 1870; and he may also be appointed an executor and obtain a grant of probate (s. 5). He may be appointed a trustee whether the trust instrument came into operation before or after the Act, and either as an original or a new trustee, or as an additional trustee, in the same cases and manner and by the same persons or Court as if he were a private trustee, with this addition--that he may be appointed sole trustee although the trustees originally a...
Public officer
Public officer, means a person falling under any of the following descriptions, namely:-(a) every Judge;(b) every member of an All India Service;(c) every commissioned or gazetted officer in the military naval or air forces of the Union while serving under the Government.(d) Every officer of a court of justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate or keep any document, or to take charge of dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order, in the Court, and every person especially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties.(e) Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement;(f) Every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the public h...
Shares in public undertakings
Shares in public undertakings. Where the property is vested by charter or Act of Parliament in a body corporate, the shares of the individual corporators in the concern itself are personal, not real, estate; for such shares are merely the rights which each individual possesses as a partner to a share in the surplus profit derived from the employment of the capital, which is a mixed fund, consisting in part of personal chattels, as well as lands and fixtures. Shares in all companies which are within the Companies Acts (see the Companies Act, 1929, s. 62), OR THE Companies Clauses Act, 1845, are personal property; and in many cases of companies incorporated by special Act the shares have been expressly declared to be personal property. Before 1926 the question whether shares in other under-takings were real or personal property turned upon the nature of the shares-that is, whether the holder could call for a specific part of the land itself or only a share of the profits. See now UNDIVID...
public invitee
public invitee : a person invited to enter or remain on property for a purpose for which the property is held open to the public ...
Mischief
Mischief, whoever with intent to cause of knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person causes the destruction of any property or any such change in the property or in the situation thereof as destroys or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously commits mischief. (See Indian Penal Code, s. 425).--This word is often used as signifying the object or purpose of a statute.It shall have the same meaning as in s. 425 of the Indian Penal Code. [Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984, s. 2 (a)]...
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