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County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (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) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to local authorities.The councillors are elected, for separate electroal divisions,' the qualification for elctors being that required under the Representation of the People Acts, and the qualification for being elected similar to that required for electionto office onany local authority. Ministers of religion are not disqulaified, and peers owing property in the county and persons registered as parliamentary voters in respect of the ownership of property in the county are qual...
Epiphany
Epiphany, a Christian festival, otherwise called the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, observed on the 6th of January.Epiphany Quarter Sessions, formerly held in the first week after the Epiphany, are directed by the (English) Law Terms Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 70), to be held in the first week after the 28th December.The (English) Quarter Sessions Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 6), repeals 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 47, which empowered justices at such sessions to name two of their body to fix Easter Sessions....
Borough Sessions
Borough Sessions, courts established in boroughs under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882. They are held by the recorders of the respective boroughs once a quarter, or oftener if they think fit, and at times to be fixed by them. The Court has 'cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by the County Quarter Sessions, whose powers extend to all boroughs which may not have obtained a separate court by petition under s. 162 of the Act, 1882, and see also (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 33)....
Assizes Relief Act, 1890
Assizes Relief Act, 1890, (52 & 53 Vict. c. 12), to relieve the Court of Assize from the trial of persons charged with offences triable at Quarter Sessions-by which Act justices of the peace are directed to bind over prosecutors to appear at the next practicable Court of Quarter Sessions, in case of the prisoner being committed on a charge there triable, unless such justices think fit for special reasons otherwise to direct, see (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 14 (for power to commit to convenient assizes)....
Peace, Clerk of the
Peace, Clerk of the, an officer who acts as clerk at the Court of Quarter Sessions, and records all their proceedings. He may have county property conveyed to him under the County Property Act, 1858, and is clerk of the County Council by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. See also (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 45). He may be removed for misbehaviour in his office under 1 M. & W. c. 21, by the justices in Quarter Sessions, as amended by the Clerks of the (English) Peace Removal Act, 1864 (see now (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 45), and the earlier Act also provides the form of oath not to pay for his appointment....
Special case
Special case. By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXIV., the parties may, after writ issued, concur in stating the questions of law arising in the action in the form of a special case for the opinion of the Court, and 'if it appear to the Court or a judge that there is in any action a question of law which it would be convenient to have decided before any evidence is given or any question or issue of fact is tried, or before any reference is made to a referee or an arbitrator, the Court or judge may make an ordr accordingly, and may direct such question of law to be raised for the opinion of the Court, either by special case, or in such other manner as the Court or judge may deem expedient.' Similar power is given to referees to state a case by Ord. XXXVI., r. 52, and see the (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 55). As to special case before the Judicature Acts, see (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, ss. 42-48, and 13 & 14 Vict. c. 35 [(English) Turner's Act]. Where ...
Vagrants
Vagrants, sturdy beggars; vagabonds.The Act which is now in force, embodying, mitigating, and extending numerous former provisions, is the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83). It has been extended by the Vagrancy Act, 1838, as to re-commitment on failure to prosecute, appeal, and exhibition of obscene prints; by the (English) Vagrant Act Amendment Act, 1873, as to gambling and betting in streets; by the Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible rogues.First. Idle and Disorderly Persons.-The following are, under the Vagrancy Act, 1824, s. 3, to be deemed 'idle and disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labou...
Appeal
Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to the Court of Appeal (see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 27), from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords (see s. 3 of the (English) Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, c. 59), from the Petty Sessions to Quarter Sessions, where the appeal is by way of retrial (see s. 19 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, also Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933, and SESSIONS OF THE PEACE), from the County Courts to the Court of Appeal (see s. 105 of the County Courts Act, 1934, and next title), and in criminal matters, to the Court of Criminal Appeal under the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, or under the (English) Crown Cases Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 78). Appeals to the House of Lords in forma pauperis are checked by the (English) Appeal (Forma Pauperis) Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 22)...
London Sessions
London Sessions, Quarter Sessions for the County of London. See also CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT....
Solicitor
Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ or process, or commence, carry on, solicit, or defend any action, suit or other proceeding' in any Court whatever (see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932, s. 45). 'Solicitor of the Supreme Court' was the title given by the (English) Judicature Act, 1843, s. 87, to all attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, and continued by (English) Solicitors Act 1932, s. 81. Prior to that Act, 'attorneys' conducted business in the Common Law Courts, 'solicitors' business in the Court of Chancery and 'proctors' ecclesiastical and Admiralty business; but it was the general practice, although any person might be admitted to practise as an attorney or solicitor only, to be admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor also.Solicitors practise as advocates before magistrates at petty sessions and quarter sessions where there is no bar, in County Courts, at Arbitrations, at Judges' Chambers, Coroners...
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