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Home Dictionary Name: public use Page: 3Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, a repository of public money, which now comprises the produce of customs, excise, stamps, and several other taxes, and some small receipts from the royal hereditary revenue, surrendered to the public use. It constitutes almost the whole of the public income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. See 56 Geo. 3, c. 98. This fund is pledged for the payment of the whole of the interest of the national debt of Great Britain and (now Northern) Ireland (see s. 6 of the National Debt Act, 1870); and besides this is liable to several other specific charges imposed upon it at various periods by Act of Parliament, such as the civil list, and the salaries of the judges and ambassadors and other high official persons; after payment of which the surplus is to be indiscriminately applied to the service of the United Kingdom under the direction of Parliament. See 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 57, and as to Northern Ireland (establishment of separate consolida...
Bulk
Bulk. See LADEN IN BULK. The electric Lighting Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 34), provides (s. 4) for the 'supply of electricity in bulk,' which means (s. 25) to supply electricity-(a) to any local authority, company, or person authorized to distribute electricity to be used for the purposes of distribution, or(b) to any local authority authorized by any general or special Act to undertake or contract for the lighting of streets, bridges, or public places, to be used for the purposes of lighting streets, bridges, and public places....
Public well
Public well, means a well though situated in a private ground but used gratuitously, and was of right, by the inhabitants in the vicinity for drawing water is a public well, Smith v. Archibald, 5 AC 489....
Incumbent
Incumbent, a clergyman in possession of as ecclesiastical benefice. As to resignation with pen-sion, see the Incumbents Resignation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 44); and the Clergy Pensions Measures, 1926 to 1928; and as to provision by the Public Worship Regulation Act for the better administra-tion of the laws 'relating to the performance of public worship, according to the use of the Church of England,' see PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION ACT, 1874; and see, generally, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy....
Liturgy
An established formula for public worship or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms a formulary for public prayer or devotion In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language in any part of the world for the celebration of Mass...
notice
notice 1 a : a notification or communication of a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding see also process, service NOTE: The requirements of when, how, and what notice must be given to a person are often prescribed by a statute, rule, or contract. b : awareness of such a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding actual notice 1 : actual awareness or direct notification of a specific fact, demand, claim, or proceeding [had actual notice of the meeting] called also express notice 2 : implied notice in this entry constructive notice : notice that one exercising ordinary care and diligence as a matter of duty would possess and esp. that is imputed by law rather than from fact [held to have constructive notice of the prior recorded deed] compare recording act express notice : actual notice in this entry implied notice : notice that is imputed to a party having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that would cause a reasonable party to inquire further or having possession of a means of know...
Specification
Specification, a particular and detailed account of a thing; also, a description of a patent with the object of putting the public in full possession of the inventor's secret, so that any person may be in a condition to avail himself of it when the period of exclusive privilege has expired. See LETTERS-PATENT.As to indexes of specifications for the public use, see s. 46 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907 (as amended by the Patents and Designs Act of 1932); and s. 7 for official investigation of old specifications of less than fifty years' date on application for a patent.It means a description of an article or process as far as practicable by reference to its nature, quality, strength, purity, composition, quantity, dimensions, weight, grade, durability, origin, age, material, mode of manufacture or other characteristics to distinguish it from any other article or process. [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(s)...
Eminent domain and police powers-distinction
Eminent domain and police powers-distinction, the concepts of eminent domain and police powers are borrowed from American law. In the exercise of its eminent domain power the State may take any property from the owner and may appropriate it for public purposes. The police and eminent domain powers are essentially distinct. Under the police power many restrictions may be imposed and the property may even be destroyed without compensation being given, whereas under the power of eminent domain, the property may be appropriated to public use on payment of compensation only, Deputy Commissioner and Collector v. Durganath Sarma, AIR 1968 SC 394 (399): (1968) 1 SCR 561....
Impressment
The act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service compulsion to serve as the impressment of provisions or of sailors...
requisition
requisition 1 : the taking of property by a public authority for a public use : the exercise of the power of eminent domain 2 : a formal demand made by one international jurisdiction (as a nation) upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice in accordance with an extradition treaty ...
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