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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)...


Bona vacantia

Bona vacantia, things found without any apparent owner which belong to the first occupant or finder, unless they be whale or sturgeon, wreck, treasure trove, waifs or estrays (see those titles), which belong to the Crown by virtue of its prerogative. So personal property held on trusts which have failed, or held in trust for a corporation which has been dissolved, belongs to the Crown as bona vacantia; see Re Higginson, (1898) 1 QB 325, and cases there cited. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 296, the property of a dissolved company including property held on trust for it shall, subject to the provisions of the Act, become bona vacantia. Before the Act was passed freehold and leasehold property reverted to the grantor. Hastings Corporation v. Letton, (1908) 1 KB 378, s. 296 is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration of Est...


Hire-purchase system

Hire-purchase system. A system whereby the owner of goods lets them on hire for periodic payments by the hirer upon an agreement that when a certain number of payments have been completed, the absolute property in the goods will pass to the hirer, but so that the hirer may return the goods at any time without any obligation to pay any balance of rent accruing after return, until the conditions have been fulfilled, the property remains in the owner. The instrument by which the hire-purchase is effected does not ordinarily require registration under the Bills of Sale Acts [Ex parte Crawcour, (1878) 9 Ch D 419]; and the hirer is 'reputed owner' within the Bankruptcy Act [Ex parte Brooks, (1993) 23 Ch D 261]; but the hirer does not 'agree to buy' within the Factors Act or Sale of Goods Act so as to be able to sell or pledge the goods as if he were a 'mercantile agent', Helby v. Matthews, 1895 AC 471; Brooks v. Biernstein, (1909) 1 KB 98. Distinguish from agreements such as in Lee v. Butler...


Fire

Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...


Market garden

Market garden. A garden on which vegetables and fruit are grown for sale. The (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908, which repealed the (English) Market Gardens Compensation Act, 1895, has itself been repealed and replaced by the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, which consolidated the law relating to Agricultural Holdings (see that title). S. 57 of this last Act defines a 'market garden' as meaning 'a holding cultivated wholly or mainly for the purpose of the trade or business of market gardening.' Market garden includes part of private premises so treated, Saunders Jacob v. Yates, (1933) 2 KB 240. Schedule III. gives the special improvements for which a market gardener can claim compensation; and see special provisions in ss. 48 and 49. See HOLDING...


Appointment of new trustees

Appointment of new trustees, See TRUSTEES. It was formerly necessary to inset a full power in instruments creating a trust providing a succession of trustees and nominating the person or persons by whom the power was to be exercised and specifying the various contingencies, as death, resignation, incapacity, etc., of the trustee, in which the power was to arise; otherwise application had to be made to the Court of Chancery. Latterly, however, a power for this purpose has been supplied by various Acts of Parliament, the statute at present in force being the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, ss. 36 and 37 replacing and extending the 10th section of the (English) Trustee Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 53), and s. 36 of the (English) Act of 1925 also provides for the appointment of additional trustees. S. 40 provides for the vesting of the trust property in the new trustees by a declaration in the deed of appointment or, deeds of appointment executed after 1925, no express vesting declaration appe...


Harbour

Harbour, except in s. 157, and in s. 130 in the case in which the harbour is given by the wife or husband of the person harboured, the word 'harbour' includes the supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or the assisting a person by any means, whether of the same kind as those enumerated in this section or not, to evade apprehension. (Penal Code, 1860 s. 52A)Harbour, includes any haven, cove or other landing place. (English) Fishery Harbours Act, 1915, s. 2(4). Where the expression 'harbour' is used in that Act with reference to a local lighthouse authority, it has the meaning assigned to it by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 742. See: (English) Harbour Act, 1964, s. 57(1); Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 401, p. 231.Means a harbour property so called whether natural or artificial, estuary, navigable river, pier, jetty, and other work in or at which ships can obtain shelter or ship and unship goods or ...


Poison

Poison (poison, Fr.; fr. potio, Lat., a drink--applied originally to a medicated drink or draught].The administration of poison or other destructive thing, if done with intent to commit murder, is a felony, punishable with penal servitude for life, or any term not exceeding three years, or with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years [(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 11], and so is the attempt to administer with like intent, whether bodily injury be effected or not (s. 14).On a trial for murder of A, by poisoning, evidence of a subsequent poisoning of other persons is admissible against the prisoner, Reg. v. Geering, (1849) 18 LJMC 215; Rex v. Armstrong, (1922) 38 TLR 631; as also of antecedent poisoning, Reg. v. Garner, (1863) 3 F&F 681.Unlawful and malicious administering of poison so as to endanger life or to inflict grievous bodily harm is a felony, punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment; and such adminis-tration with intent to i...


Pre-emption, Right of

Pre-emption, Right of, the power of buying a thing before others, as superfluous lands under the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 128, which must before sale be offered to the persons from whom they were originally taken, or to the adjoining owners; as to registration of contracts or deeds giving the right of pre-emption as estate contracts, see (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10. Compare the right of pre-emption which a county council has by virtue of s. 12 (4) of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908. Also, a privilege formerly allowed to the royal purveyor, but abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See OPTION TO PURCHASE....


Public

Public, includes a section of the public. The word 'public', includes in its ordinary acceptation, any section of the public, Venkataraman Devani v. State of Mysore, AIR 1958 SC 255: (1958) SCR 895: (1985) SCJ 382: (1958) 1 Andh WR (SC) 109: (1958) 1 Mad LJ 109 (SC).Is a term of uncertain import, used with many different shades of meaning; public policy, public rights of way, public property, public authority, public nuisance, public house, public school, public company, Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. C 61.Public, is ordinarily used with reference to a joint body of citizens. It means that it is shared in or participated in or enjoyed by people at large, Otherwise, it is common to all the people, Azam Khan v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (1972) 2 Andh WR 288: (1972) Mad LJ (Cr) 674.The word 'public' includes any class of the public or any community. [Penal Code, 1860, s. 12]...



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