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Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with … kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as
Justices
particular statute dealing with the subject-matter of the offence. (3) To act, if county justices, as judges at Quarter Sessions, where their chairman presides and tries indictments with a jury, and such justices as attend the Quarter … only of his being liable in common with others to contribute to or be benefited by any council rate or fund for payment of expenses. Women may be appointed justices of the peace. [(English) Sex Disqualification (Removal)
Vagrants
(being thereof convicted before him) to the house of correction, there to remain until the next general or quarter sessions of the peace, at which sessions the justices may examine into the case, and order that such … a false statement for the purpose of or committing other offences when obtaining relief out of the poor rate is to be deemed an 'idle and disorderly person'; and by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, a man
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County Councils
(see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are nominated by the Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the Act, and consisting of 'the chairman, aldermen, and councillors.' The (English) … in county councils has been extended. The administrative business transferred to the county councils includes:-- (1) Making of rates; (2) Borrowing of money; (3) Supervision of county treasurer; (4) Management of halls,offices and other buildings; (5) Licensing
Imprisonment
Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 38); this Act now regulates the procedure on appeal to Quarter Sessions; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.' Important alterations in the law relating to imprisonment have been introduced by the … to be made. As to imprisonment for non-payment of payments in bastardy or under affiliation orders, or of rates under the (English) Bastardy Laws (Amendment) Act, 1872, or the (English) Distress for Rates Act, 1849, respectively, the
Landlord and tenant
may be (1) for any agreed period such as for years or less, e.g., for a year, half-year, quarter or week; (2) from year to year; (3) at will; (4) on sufferance; or (5) they may arise … are usually let at an 'inclusive' or 'exclusive' rent. 'Inclusive' means that the landlord undertakes to pay the rates and do the repairs or part of them. 'Exclusive,' that the burden of these as well as the
Rent
753. Where rent is reserved generally and no such mention is made, as is usual, of half-yearly or quarterly payments, nothing is due until the end of the year. Rent is considered as of a higher nature … Rent, would include the compensation for use and occupation due and payable by the tenant at the same rate though for the period after expiry of the term of the lease on account of failure of the
Assessment Committee
power to administer an oath or to order costs. An appeal lies from the committee to the local Quarter Sessions, Imperial and Grand Hotels Co. v. Christchurch Union, 1905 (2) KB 239 (27 of 1957). … is based. See VALUATION LIST and POOR LAWS. The committee is appointed and acts by virtue of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90). See s. 17 and First Sched. When
Municipal corporation
a separate commission of the peace, excluding the jurisdiction of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,' having the same jurisdiction in the borough has the justices in County … necessary. It has the control of the borough police, and as a local authority for the purposes of rating [(English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925]; good rule and government [(English) Local Government Act, 1933] [(English) Public Health
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