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Public Schools, schools open to all, subject to the terms of their foundation and the regulations of some governing body, private schools being only open to such pupils as the proprietor or head master chooses to admit. The term has in some modern statutes been confined to the larger public schools, such as Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Charterhouse, Harrow, Rugby, and Shrewsbury, the governing bodies of which were, by the Public Schools Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 118), empowered to make new regulations for their constitution and management, requiring confirmation by Order in Council. See generally, Birkenhead School v. Dring, (1926) 43 TLR 49....
public school
public school A school established under the laws of the state and regulated by local authorities in various districts, counties or towns, maintained at the public expense by taxation, and open to residents' children. Source: FindLaw ...
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 Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1346.School Attendance Committee, a committee appointed annually (in 'school districts' not within the jurisdiction of a 'school board') for the purpose of enforcing the Elementary Education Act, 1876, by proceeding against parents who neglected to send their children to a public elementary school. The duties of this Committee were transferred to the local education authorities by the Education Act, 1902. This Act was repealed by the Education Act, 1921, but the responsibilities of the local education authorities in this respect were confirmed (s. 43).School Board, a body corporate of persons elected triennially, for the purpose of managing 'public elementary schools' within their respective districts [(English) Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873]. School Boards were abolished by the (Eng...
Endowed schools
Endowed schools. Schools wholly or partly maintained out of an endowment. The (English) Endowed Schools Acts are 23 Vict. c. 11; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 32; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 87; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 29; and 42 & 43 Vict. c. 66; since which statutes their temporary provisions have been continued by (English) Annual Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. The principal Act is that of 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 56), which provided for the reorganization of endowed schools generally (ex-cepting those subject to the (English) Public Schools Act, 1868, as to which see PUBLIC SCHOOLS) through the medium of 'schemes' to be framed by the 'Endowed Schools Commissioners,' whose powers were transferred by the (English) Act of 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 87), to the Charity Com-missioners, and are now vested in the Board of Education. As to the dismissal of masters, see the (English) Endowed Schools (Masters) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 39), and Wright v. Zetland (Marquess), (1908) 1 KB 63. As to inspection o...
school district
school district A public and quasi-municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government and support of the public schools within its territory. Source: FindLaw ...
Public school
In Great Britain any of various schools maintained by the community wholly or partly under public control or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit specif and commonly any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities Eton Harrow Rugby and Winchester are of this class...
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]...
school committee
school committee A board of municipal officers charged with the administration of the affairs of public schools. Source: FindLaw ...
Charities, or Public Trusts
Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission to his subjects to bequeath their property to the Church. This permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments.Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at an early period that ordinary had the power to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distr...
Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education had been dealt with either as a series of individual problems in respect of which provisions were made for the education of special classes of persons, or by executive, as opposed to legislative methods, as, for example, by a system of grants in aid. This Act was followed by a series of Acts, known collectively as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1919, which together established a system of free and compulsory elementary education of a non-denominational character. The initial Act established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent of every child to cause such child to receive efficient elementary educatio...
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