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Snow. Nuisances arising from snow may be pre-vented by bye-laws of local authorities under s. 81 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, but, in case of conflict, a regulation under the London Traffic Act, 1924, s. 10, is to prevail over any bye-law. If any obstruction shall arise in any highway from accumulation of snow, the surveyor is required from time to time, and within twenty-four hours after notice thereof from any justice of the peace of the county in which the parish may be situate, to cause the same to be removed, by s. 26 of the (English) Highways Act, 1835: Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Highways.' Snow is included in the 'street refuse' which London sanitary authorities must, as far as reasonably practicable, remove from the street, by s. 86 of the (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 50); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Health (Metropolis)'; but the fine up to 20l. was held to be the only liability o the authority if in default, Saunders v. Ho...

Snow broth

Snow and water mixed or snow just melted very cold liquor...

Snow capped

Having the top capped or covered with snow as snow capped mountains...

Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth

Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth, The opening words of s. 191 'whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth........' do not support the submission that a man who is not bound under the law to make an affidavit, can if he does make one, deliberately retrain from stating truthfully the facts which are within his knowledge. The meaning of these words is that whenever in a court of law a person binds himself on oath to state the truth he is bound to state the truth and he cannot be heard to say that he should not have gone into the witness box or should not have made an affidavit and therefore the submission that any false statement which he had made after taking the oath is not covered by the words of s. 191, IPC is not supportable. Whenever a man makes a statement in court on oath he is bound to state the truth and if he does not, he makes himself liable under the provisions of s. 193. It...

Snow banner

A bannerlike stream of snow blown into the air from a mountain peak often having a pinkish color and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky...

Snow blind

Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow...

Snow white

White as snow very white...

Any party bound by the award

Any party bound by the award, the expression 'any party bound by the award' refers to all workmen bound by the award, notice to terminate the said award can be given not by a individual workman but by a group of workmen acting collectively either through their union or otherwise, and it is not necessary that such a group or the union through which it acts should represent the majority of workmen bound by the award, Associated Cement Companies v. Workmen, AIR 1960 SC 777 (781). [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, s. 19(6)]...

metes and bounds

metes and bounds [translation of Anglo-French metes et boundes] : the boundaries or limits of a tract of land esp. as described by reference to lines and distances between points on the land ...

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