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Revising assessors, two officers elected by the bur-gesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in revising the parish burgess lists (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 29, and Sch. III.); but their duties were transferred to the revising barristers, and their office abolished by the County Electors Act, 1888....
Assessors
Assessors, literally those who sit by the side of another: persons appointed to ascertain and fix the value of taxes, rates, etc. Also persons sometimes associated with judges of courts to advise and direct the decisions of such judges.By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 98, replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 56, the High Court or the Court of Appeal may, when it may think it expedient other than in a criminal proceeding by the Crown, call in the aid of one or more assessors specially qualified, and try and hear the matter in question wholly or partially with the assistance of such assessors. By the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 88, replacing the County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868, s. 14, provision is made for the appointment of assessors of 'natural skill and experience' in Admiralty actions, and such assessors frequently sit in county courts under the powers of this Act.Schedule II. of the (English) Workmen's Compensa-tion Act, 1925, gives a county court ...
assessor
assessor 1 : one appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate ;esp : one with special knowledge of the subject to be decided see also master 2 : one that assesses ;specif : one that is authorized to assess property for taxation ...
Co assessor
A joint assessor...
Statute Law Revision Acts
Statute Law Revision Acts. A number of general Acts were passed from the year 1861 to 1927 inclusive, for the purpose of expressly and specifically repealing Acts or parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, or which (see the preambles to the various Acts) 'might be regarded as spent, or had by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary' from various causes, or had become obsolete, and also partly with the view of clearing the way for two editions of 'Statutes Revised,' that is, statutes in force only, as distinguished from the 'Statutes at Large,' or statutes just as they are passed. In 1890, as explained in an Introductory Note to vol. 4 of the 2nd edition of the Revised Statutes, a Select Committee of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the omission from the Revised Statutes of 'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or in...
Revisal
The act of revising or reviewing and reeumlxamining for correction and improvement revision as the revisal of a manuscript the revisal of a proof sheet the revisal of a treaty...
Revising Barristers' Courts
Revising Barristers' Courts were courts presided over by a revising barrister which were held throughout the country each autumn to revise the list of voters for members of Parliament, for town councillors, and for county councillors. A revising barrister was appointed for one year, and was a member of the junior Bar of at least seven (originally three) years' standing. An appeal lay on a point of law to the High Court. These courts were finally abolished by the Representation of the People Act, 1918, which repealed the statutes under which they existed (Sch. VIII.)....
Revision
The act of revising reeumlxamination for correction review as the revision of a book or writing or of a proof sheet a revision of statutes...
Revise
To look at again for the detection of errors to reeumlxamine to review to look over with care for correction as to revise a writing to revise a translation...
Appeal and revision
Appeal and revision, the expression 'revision' is meant to convey the idea of a much narrower jurisdiction than that conveyed by the expression 'appeal', Sri Raja Lakshmi Dyeing Works v. Rangaswamy Chettiar, (1980) 4 SCC 259. [T.N. Bulding (Lease and Rent Control) Act 1960, s. 25]...
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