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Bakehouse

Bakehouse. Any place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionery from the baking or selling of which a profit is derived. ss. 97-102 of the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), contain various sanitary provisions for the regulation of bakehouses, as defined above in Part II of Sched. VI of the Act. S. 98 enables a Court of Summary Jurisdiction to fine the occupiers of in sanitary bakehouses and to order them to remove the ground of complaint of an inspector or district council. Limewashing, painting or varnishing are prescribed by s. 99, sleeping-places must be specially constructed as required by s. 100. By s. 101 underground bake-houses may not be used without a district council certificate, and by s. 102 it is for the district council to enforce these provisions as to retail bakehouses....


Petroleum

Petroleum, includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Petroleum (Production) Act, 1934 (UK)]Includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, whether or not it has undergone any processing; but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation. [Pipelines Act, 1962 (UK)]Petroleum, is an oily, inflammable liquid made up mostly of hydrocarbons compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, the New Bank of Popular Science, Vol. 2; Special Reference No. 1 of 2001, In Re (2004) 4 SCC 489.Means liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons are so intimately associated in nature that it has become customary to shorten the expression 'petroleum and na...


Noting

Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper attached thereto, or partly upon each.Such notes must be made within a reasonable time after dishonour, and must specify the date of dishonour, the reason, if any, assigned for such dishonour, or if the instrument has not been expressly dishonoured, the reason why the holder treats it as dishonoured, and the notary's charges. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 99]--The making of a memorandum or note on a bill of exchange by a notary which states that he has presented the bill for payment or acceptance, and that it has been dishonoured. It is usual, in cases of non-payment of bills of exchange, for London bankers, after six o'clock on the day upon which the bills fall due, to cause inland bills to be noted. The duty of a notary in protesting a bill consists in thre...


Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890

Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890 (English) (53 & 54 Vict. c. 57), repealed by and see now the Allotments Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 57), ss. 1 and 4 (2). At Common Law a mortgagor, and therefore any tenant of his becoming such after mortgage with-out concurrence of the mortgagee, is a mere tres-passer, liable to ejectment without notice, and so liable to lose all his growing crops, etc., without compensation from the mortgagee. The Tenants' Compensation Act, to remedy this hardship, provided that where a person occupies land under a contract of tenancy (whenever made) with the mortgagor, which is not binding on the mortgagee, the occupier shall, as against the mortgagee who takes possession, be entitled to such compensation for crops, improvements, or other matters whatever, under the custom of the country, or the Agricultural Holdings Act, as would be due to him but for the mortgagee taking possession; and further gives such occupier a right to six months' notice, before being depri...


Peppercorn

Peppercorn. When it is desired to reserve only a nominal rent for any period, a 'peppercorn, if demanded,' is usually reserved. A writing showing that a peppercorn has been handed over is not 'a receipt for the last payment due for rent' within s. 3 (4) of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881. See now (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 45 (2) and (3) (Re Moody and Yates, (1885) 30 Ch D 344). These rents may be reserved in building leases by mortgagors and mortgagees [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 99], and in building and forestry leases by tenants for life. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 44 and 48]...


Vancouver's Island

Vancouver's Island. See 12 & 13 Vict. c. 48; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 99, s. 6; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 67 (providing for union with British Columbia); 33 & 34 Vict. c. 66, and British North America Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 26), confirming the agreement between British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada....


Stipendiary Magistrates

Stipendiary Magistrates, paid magistrates ap-pointed in the Metropolis under the (English) Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839; in municipal boroughs, on petition by the council to the Secretary of State, under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 161, reproducing s. 99 of the repealed (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1835; in places of 25,000 inhabitants or more, on like representation by the local board, etc.; under (English) the Stipendiary Magistrates Act, 1863; and in some other places, e.g., Manchester, by special Act of Parliament. They must be barristers of at least seven years' standing in the metropolis and municipal boroughs; under the (English) Stipendiary Magistrates Act, 1863, they may be of five years' standing. By the (English) Stipendiary Magistrates Act, 1858, they may do alone all acts authorized to be done by two justices of the peace. a stipendiary magistrate cannot sit at general or quarter sessions. As to deputies, see 32 & 33 Vict. c. 34 and ...


Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English)

Brougham's (Lord) Acts (English). The best known of them are the Beer Act of 1830 (11 Geo. 4, 8 1 Wm. 4, c. 64), the Judicial Committee Act of 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 41), the repealed County Court Act of 1846, the repealed Act for shortening the language of Acts of Parliament (13 & 34 Vict. c. 21), for which ss. 1, 3 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, are now substituted, and the Evidence Acts of 1845 and 1851 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113), and (14 & 15 Vict. c. 99); and the Act, now replaced, which made slave trading a felony for the first time....


Married women's property

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...


Workmen's Compensation Act

Workmen's Compensation Act. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, introduced the principle of compulsory insurance of workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by statute (see COMPBELL (LORD) ACTS (Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908) and Employers Liability Act, 1880, sub tit. MASTER AND SERVANT), and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer the question of compensation to the proper tribunal, subject to an equitable order for costs (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 25). Compensation is not payable for a...



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