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Registry, District. See DISTRICT REGISTRIES....
District Registry
District Registry. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 84, replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 60, it is provided that to facilitate proceedings in country districts the Crown may, from time to time, by Order in Council, create district registries and appoint district registrars for the purpose of issuing writs of summons and for entertaining proceedings generally in an action down to and including entry for trial. Documents sealed in any such district registrary are to be received in evidence without further proof; and the district registrars may administer oaths or do other things as provided by rules or a special order of the Court (s. 62). Power, however, is given to a judge to remove proceedings from a district registry to the Office of the High Court; and see generally, (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 84-87, and Judicature Act, 1873, ss. 74 and 66, which are still unrepealed. By Order in Council of 12th of August, 1875, a number of district registries have ...
Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884
Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884 (English) (47 & 48 Vict. c. 54), consolidating and amending the Acts relating to the registration of deeds, wills, and other assurances (see the wide meaning of the term in s. 3 of the Act of 1884) in the North (8 Geo. 2, c. 6), East (6 Anne, c. 2), and West (2 & 3 Anne, c. 4, and 6 Anne, c. 20) Ridings of the County of York, for the purpose of giving them priority according to the date of registration irrespectively of notice aliunde (s. 14) (see NOTICE); and Battison v. Hobson, (1896) 2 Ch 403; Gresham Assurance Society v. Crowther, (1915) 1 Ch 214.By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 11:(1) It shall not be necessary to register a memorial of any instrument made after the commencement of this Act in any local deeds registry unless the instrument operates to transfer or create a legal estate or to create a charge thereon by way of legal mortgage; nor shall registration of a memorial of any instrument not required to be registered affect any prior...
registry date
registry date Aliens who have continuously resided in the United States since January 1, 1972, are of good moral character, and are not inadmissible, are eligible to adjust to legal permanent resident status under the registry provision. Before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 amended the date, aliens had to have been in the country continuously since June 30, 1948, to qualify. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Registry of ships
Registry of ships. The registry of ships appears to have been introduced into this country by the (English) Navigation Act (12 Car. 2, c. 18, A.D. 1660); several provisions were made with respect to it by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 22, and the whole was reduced into a system by the 27 Geo. 3, c. 19. It is now provided for by Part I. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), Chit. Stat., tit. 'Shipping,' by which (s. 2) every British ship must be registered under the Act, except (s. 3) 'ships not exceeding fifteen tons burden employed solely in navigation on the rivers or coasts of the United Kingdom, or on the rivers or coasts of some British possession within which the managing owners of the ships are resident,' and 'ships not exceeding thirty tons burden, and not having a whole or fixed deck and employed solely in fishing or trading coastwise on the shores of Newfoundland or parts adjacent thereto, or in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on such portions of the coasts of Canada as ...
registry
registry pl: -tries 1 : registration [an instrument filed for in the conveyance records "Louisiana Civil Code"] 2 : the nationality of a ship according to its entry in a register 3 : a place of registration : a place where official records and documents are kept [the of motor vehicles] [ of deeds] ...
Land Registry Act
Land Registry Act. See REGISTRATION OF LAND....
district court
district court often cap D&C : a trial court having general or limited jurisdiction in a judicial district: as a : one of the federal trial courts sitting in a federal district b : a trial court within a state court system see also the Judicial System in the back matter ...
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts).
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts). Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Collector of the District
Collector of the District, The expression 'Collector of the district' which is a component of the first part of the definition is not defined in the Cotton Cess Act,1923. But the General Clauses Act 10 of 1897 defines 'Collector' as meaning 'in a Presidency town, the Collector of Calcutta, Madras of Bombay as the case may be, and elsewhere the Chief Officer-in-charge of the revenue administra-tion of a district', Devanagere Cotton Mills Ltd. v. Dy. Commissioner (1961) 2 SCR 556: AIR 1961 SC 1441....
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