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amerasian act
and before October 22, 1982, and have been fathered by a U.S. citizen. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Electoral franchise
assimilated the occupation franchise of the counties to that of the boroughs by entitling every man, after a qualifying period, who occupied any land or tenement of a clear yearly value of 10l. or more, to be … of the boroughs to the counties, and including in both cases occupiers of dwelling-houses by virtue of office, service, or employment. The (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918, created great changes: it abolished the voting qualifications
Rent
accompanied by express powers of distress and entry. Small rent-charges were frequently granted for the mere purpose of qualifying the grantee for the parlia-mentary franchise, as a forty-shilling free-holder, under 8 Hen. 6, c. 7, but this … and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the
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nonimmigrant
can be accompanied or joined by spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Solicitor
a clerk ('articled clerk') to a solicitor, and have passed certain examinations (see s. 14). The period of service as an articled clerk is five years, unless the articled clerk has been a barrister or a Scotch … Peace Act, 1906, provides by s. 3 (amendment by the Act of 1932) that a solicitor, if otherwise qualified, may be appointed a justice of the peace for any county. But a solicitor who is a justice
Midwife
qualification for registration as a medical practitioner, and for the recovery of professional charges, the having passed a qualifying examination in 'medicine, surgery, and midwifery.' The (English) Midwives Act, 1902, as amended by the (English) Midwives Acts, … local authorities the duty of the provision, either through welfare councils, voluntary organizations or by itself, of domiciling service of midwives (s. 1); ss. 2 and 3 deal with terms of employment and fees payable to midwives;
Rajya Sabha
to Rajya Sabha consist of persons having special knowledge or practical experience in literature, science, art and social service. Constitution of India, Art. 80. The representatives of the Union Territories are elected by an electoral college, Representation … Sabha is chosen by the House to be its Deputy Chairman. [Constitution of India, Art. 89(1)(2)] To be qualified as member of Rajya Sabha one has to be an elector for a Parliamentary Constituency in India. Representation
Alien
by reason of any annexation of territory, or was at the time of that person's birth in the service of the Crown, or his birth was registered at a British Consulate within one year (or with the
Copyhold
Property Acts, 1922, (Amendment) 1924, 1925 and (Amendment) 1926, copyhold and customary tenures have been converted into a qualified form of freehold or leasehold, land formerly copyhold being in any event still subject to certain rights o … undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth. A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes
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