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Schoolmaster. To an action of trespass for an assault and battery the defendant pleaded that he was the headmaster of a school or college, of which the plaintiff was a pupil, and that the plaintiff combined with other pupils for purposes subversive of the discipline of the school, and the plea was held good: see Fitzgerald v. Northcote, (1865) 4 F&F 656. As to the extent of the powers of a schoolmaster in this respect, see Cleary v. Booth, (1893) 1 QB 465. As to the power of an assistant teacher in a public elementary school to administer corporal punishment, see Mansell v. Griffin, (1908) 1 KB 160 (947). As to the dismissal of a schoolmaster or mistress of a public elementary school, see Smith v. Macnally, (1912) 1 Ch 816; Meyers v. Humell, (1912) 2 Ch 256; Mitchell v. East Sussex C.C., (1914) 109 LT 778; Price v. Rhondda U.D.C., (1923) 2 Ch 372....
Barringout
The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster a boyish mode of rebellion in schools...
Dominie
A schoolmaster a pedagogue...
Literator
One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge a petty schoolmaster...
Pedant
A schoolmaster a pedagogue...
Schoolmaster
The man who presides over and teaches a school a male teacher of a school...
Capitation fee
Capitation fee. A fee for each person dealt with by the person who receives it; as where a schoolmaster, in addition to his salary, or instead of it, is paid one pound per annum for each boy in the school.'Capitation fee' means charging or collecting amount beyond what is permitted by law, Unni Krishnan J.P. v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1993 SC 2178 (2247): (1993) 1 SCC 645...
Mulla
Mulla, the word 'Mulla' is defined as a learned man. This obviously is the etymological meaning, being the same as Moulvi or Maulana, but it has also got the secondary meaning of a village schoolmaster or a person in charge of mosque, Bala Tripura Sundaramma v. Secretary of State, (106) Ind Cas 891: 1928 Mad 282....
Schism Bill
Schism Bill, the name of an Act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, which restrained Protestant dissenters from educating their own children, and forbade all tutors and schoolmasters to be present at any conventicle or dissenting place of worship. The Queen died on the day when this Act was to have taken effect (August 1, 1714), and it was repealed in the firth year of Geo. I....
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