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Reformatory Schools. Section 44 of the (English) Children Act, 1908, defined a 'reformatory school' as 'a school for the industrial training of youthful offenders, in which youthful offenders are lodged, clothed, and fed, as well as taught.' As to the present law, see APPROVED SCHOOLS....
reformatory
reformatory pl: -ries : a penal institution to which esp. young or first offenders are committed for training and reformation ...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...
reform school
reform school : a reformatory for boys or girls ...
Reformative
Forming again having the quality of renewing form reformatory...
Reformatory
Tending to produce reformation reformative...
Approved schools
Approved schools. These schools are schools intended for the education and training of persons to be sent there in pursuance of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (see s. 79(1) and approved by the Secretary of State. They are regulated by ss. 79-83 of that Act. Local authorities may under certain circumstances undertake the purchase, establishment, building, alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or management of an approved school (s. 80). The Secretary of State may classify approved schools as he thinks best calculated to secure that a person sent to an approved school is sent to the school appropriate to his case. With certain exceptions the managers of an approved school are bound to accept any person sent there in pursuance of the Act (s. 81). The expression 'approved school' was first used in the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, which was declared to apply in relation to a school which at the commencement of this Act is a certified reformatory school or a certified indust...
Borstal institution
Borstal institution. This name originated from a large juvenile-adult reformatory which was opened at Borstal, near Rochester, in 1901, by utilizing a portion of the existing convict prison for the purpose. Power to establish Borstal Institutions is given by s. 4 of the (English) Prevention of Crime Act,1908, and the same section describes such institutions as 'places in which young offenders whilst detained may be given such industrial training and other instruction, and be subject to such disciplinary and moral influences as will conduce to their reformation and the prevention of crime.' The Act has been amended by the (English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, ss. 10, 11....
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...
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
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