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Section

The act of cutting or separation by cutting as the section of bodies...

Sectional

Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory local...

Sectionalism

A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country local patriotism as distinguished from national...

Sectionalize

To divide according to geographical sections or local interests...

Empire Settlement Act, 1922 (English) (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 13)

Empire Settlement Act, 1922 (English) (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 13), 'to make better provision for furthering British settlement in His Majesty's Overseas Dominions,' provides for the raising up to 1,500,000l. for this purpose in 1922-23, and not more than 3,000,000l. in any subsequent year....

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...

Public health

Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to London, and forms the foundation of modern sanitary legislation. It was followed by some twenty nine amending Acts which were repealed and consolidated by the Public Health Act, 1875 (the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), repeals certain sections of this Act, re-enacting them with amendments), which thus formed a sanitary code for England outside the metropolis. This Act has been since amended and extended by subsequent statutes. The latest is the Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), which, as from 1st October, 1937, consolidates many of the provisions of earlier legislation, without, however, repealing parts of the Public Health Acts of 1875, 1890, 1907 and 1925. The Act repeals and replaces among other enact-ments and as from various dates respectively provided by the Act: the whole of the Baths and Wash-houses A...

Authority

Authority, means the Coastal Aquaculture Authority established under sub-section (1) of section 4. [Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act, 2005 (24 of 2005), s. 2(a)]Means the right or permission to act legally on another's behalf; the power delegated by a principal to an agent e.g. authority to sign the contract, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 127.Means a right; an official or judicial command; also a legal power to do an act given by one man to another. Consult Vin. Abr., tit. 'Authority,' and Sugden on Powers, and see WARRANTY.Dictionary meaning of the word 'authority' is clearly wide enough to include all bodies created by a statute on which powers are conferred to carry out governmental or quasi-governmental functions, Som Prakash Rekki v. Union of India, (1981) 1 SCC 449, AIR 1981 SC 212 (229). (Constitution of India Art. 12)The meaning of the word 'authority' given in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, which can be applicable is 'a public administrative agency or corp...

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