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Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Deck cargo
Deck cargo. By s. 10 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 48), 'deck cargo' means any cargo carried either in any uncovered space on deck or in any covered space not included in the cubical contents forming the ship's registered tonnage. The (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 61, gives the Board of Trade power to make regulations, known as 'timber cargo regulations,' as to the carrying of timber in any uncovered space on deck....
Rabies
Rabies, madness. As to destruction of mad dogs in the metropolis by magistrate's order, see (English) Traffic Regulations (London) Act (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134, s. 8). Under 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 61, the metropolitan police may destroy any dog or animal reasonably suspected to be in a rabid state or to have been bitten by a dog or animal in a rabid state. As to muzzling orders, see Acts referred to under tit. ANIMAL (Diseases)....
Shares in public undertakings
Shares in public undertakings. Where the property is vested by charter or Act of Parliament in a body corporate, the shares of the individual corporators in the concern itself are personal, not real, estate; for such shares are merely the rights which each individual possesses as a partner to a share in the surplus profit derived from the employment of the capital, which is a mixed fund, consisting in part of personal chattels, as well as lands and fixtures. Shares in all companies which are within the Companies Acts (see the Companies Act, 1929, s. 62), OR THE Companies Clauses Act, 1845, are personal property; and in many cases of companies incorporated by special Act the shares have been expressly declared to be personal property. Before 1926 the question whether shares in other under-takings were real or personal property turned upon the nature of the shares-that is, whether the holder could call for a specific part of the land itself or only a share of the profits. See now UNDIVID...
Small holdings
Small holdings. The (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, by s. 61 gives the following definition:-The expression 'small holding' means an agri-cultural holding which exceeds one acre and either does not exceed fifty acres or, if exceeding fifty acres, is at the date of sale or letting of an annual value for the purposes of income tax not exceeding one hundred pounds [as amended by the (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 52), s. 16]....
Persons
Persons, the expression 'persons' undoubtedly includes natural persons. The class of such taxable persons has been indicated by the Legislature with reference to their occupational activity. Thus, in order to be authorised, a tax under cl. (b) of s. 61(1) must satisfy two conditions: First, it must be a tax on 'persons', Second, such persons must be practising any profession or art or carrying on any trade or calling in the municipality, Munshi Ram v. Municipal Committee, AIR 1979 SC 1250 (1252): (1979) 3 SCC 83: (1979) 3 SCR 463....
Embracery
Embracery, an attempt to influence a jury corruptly in favour of one party in a trial, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, and the like. The punishment for this mis-demeanour in the person embracing and the juror embraced is, by the Common Law, and also by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50),s. 61, fine and imprisonment....
Identity card
Identity card, A card which establishes the identity of the holder. [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 61(b)]...
Case for the opinion of Courts of Law
Case for the opinion of Courts of Law. Prior to 16 & 17 Vict. c. 86, s. 61, the Court of Chancery used to direct cases to be submitted for the opinion of a court of law; but that Act gave the Court of Chancery the power of deciding questions of law....
Buggery
Buggery, sodomy, punishable by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 61, by penal servitude for life or any term not less than ten years, but by the effect of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, a maximum term of two years' imprisonment may in the discretion of the Court be imposed. And see BLACK MAIL, and INFAMOUS CRIME....
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