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Electoral roll, The electoral roll referred to in s. 62(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 must be understood to be the electoral roll that was in force on the last day for making the nominations for the election, Baidyanath Panjiar v. Sitaram Mahto, (1969) 2 SCC 447: AIR 1970 SC 314: (1970) 1 SCR 839.For being eligible to be included in electoral register, one has to be: (1) a resident in that Constituency, (2) should not be subject to any legal incapacity, (3) has to be either a Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, (4) has to be of 18 years of age or above on the date of poll, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 26.In U.K., it is known as electoral Register. The Representation of People Act, 1983 provides for the presentation of Registers of Parliamentary electors once a year and all persons who claim to vote must be registered before election, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 28.Is known as 'voters' l...
Roll
Roll, a schedule of parchment that may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe, Staundf. P.C. 11. A list, as a burgess roll, a freeman's roll under the Municipal Corporations Act. All pleadings, memorials, and acts of Court are entered on rolls, and filed with the proper officers, and then they become records of the Court.Means a roll of advocates prepared and maintained under this Act. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) s. 2(1)(b)]1. A record of a court's or public office's proceedings 2. An official list of persons and property subject to taxation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1329...
Roll of Court
Roll of Court, the Court-roll in a manor, wherein the business of the Court, the admissions, surrenders, names, rents, and services of the tenants ae copied and enrolled. 'Copyhold lands are lands holden by copy of Court roll; that is, the muniments of the title are copies of the roll or book in which an account is kept of the proceedings in the Court of the manor to which the lands belong.'-Williams on Real Property. As to custody, an superintendence, of the Master of the Rolls, see COPYHOLD, and Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch....
Rolling stock
Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carri-ages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(a)]By the Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 50), rolling stock of a railway company, when out on sidings, etc., belonging to private occupiers, is exempted from distress for rent due from the occupiers. The rolling stock is protected from execution by s. 4 of the Railway Companies Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 127), made perpetual by 38 & 39 Vict. c. 31.Rolling stock, includes locomotives, engines, carriages (whether powered or not), wagons, trollies and vehicles of all kinds moving or intended to move on rails. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, s. 2(r)]...
Clause Rolls
Clause Rolls [rotuli clausi, Lat.] contain all such matters of record as were committed to close writs; these rolls are preserved in the Tower. See CLOSE ROLLS.Sealed rolls containing royal writs and other documents that the sovereign deemed inappropriate for the public records, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Master of the Rolls
Master of the Rolls [magister rotulorum, Lat.], originally the chief of a body of officers called the Masters in Chancery, of whom there were eleven others, including the Accountant-General. The Master of the Rolls subsequently became a judge of the Court of Chancery, who ranked next to the Lord Chancellor, and had the keeping of the rolls and grants which passed the Great Seal, and the records of the Chancery. All orders and decrees by him made, except such as by the course of the Court, were appropriated to the Great Seal alone, were deemed to be valid, subject, nevertheless, to be discharged or altered by the Lord Chancellor, and were not enrolled till they were signed by the Lord Chancellor, 3 Geo. 2, c. 30.This judge, by the (English) Jud. Act, 1881, s. 2 [see now Jud. (English) Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)], now sits in the (English) Court of Appeal only. Before that Act he was the second judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice [Jud. Act, 1873, s. 31 (1)], and also an ...
Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll
Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll, a roll, called from one Ragimund, or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterwards taxed by the Court of Rome.The term Ragman's-toll also means the list of the barons and men of note who subscribed the submission to Edward I. in 1296, and which was delivered up to the Scots in 1328 (Scott's History of Scotland. Vol. i. p. 162)....
Rolls of Parliament
Rolls of Parliament, the manuscript registers of the proceedings of our old Parliaments. In these rolls are likewise a great many decisions of difficult points of law which were frequently, informer times, referred to the determination of this Supreme Court by the judges of both benches, etc.'Formerly all bills were drawn in the form of petitions which were entered upon the parliament rolls, with the king's answer thereunto subjoined; not in any settled form of words, but as the circumstances of the case required; and at the end of each parliament, the judges drew them into the form of a statute, which was entered on the statute rolls.'--1 Bl. Com. 181....
Court Rolls
Court Rolls, a book,or series of books, in which an account of all the proceedings and transactions of the customary court of a manor was entered by a person duly authorized. The person who makes the entries is the steward, and the court rolls are kept by him,but subject to the right of the tenants to inspect them.Copyhold tenure was abolished by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, but the Law of Property (Amendent) Act contains provisions for the preservation and superintendence of Court Rolls, ibid. 2nd Sched. II. See MANORIAL DOCUMENTS; Williams on Real Property. Consult Scriven or Elton on Copyholds...
For the time being entered in the electral roll
For the time being entered in the electral roll, the words 'for the time being entered in the electoral roll' in s. 62(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 must be taken to mean 'for the time being entered in the electoral roll in accordance with law', Ramji Prasad Singh v. Ram Bilas Jha, AIR 1976 SC 2573: (1977) 1 SCC 260: (1977) 1 SCR 741....
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