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Brothel

the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1912 and 1922. For a person licensed to sell intoxicating liquor to permit his premises to be a brothel, the penalty is up to 20l. fine, forfeiture of license, and perpetual … of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged by the (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), s. 5, and the prosecution

Shop

normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycles; provides for … as amended by the 1934 Act, it shall be the duty of the occupier of the shop to permit the female assistants to make use of such sets whenever such use does not interfere with their work.

Reeve

peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, … chief purpose of holding the hundred court was to enable the sheriff to hold his 'town' and to permit a view of frankpledge, i.e. an inspection of the person who ought to belong to the frankpledge system.'

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Roman Catholics

See Anstey's Guide to the Law affecting Roman Catholics (1842) and Lilly and Wallis's Manual of the Law specially affecting Catholics (1893). The authors of the latter work, and also the writer of the article 'Roman Catholic' … Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. See also Office and Oath Act, 1867, which permitted the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to be a Roman Catholic. The office was abolished by Part II. of

Copyright

the civil remedies for infringement, see ss. 6-10; in certain cases a summary remedy is provided (ss. 11-13). Special provisions apply in the case of joint-authors (s. 16), posthumous works (s. 17), Government publications (s. 18), mechanical … which the design is registered. [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000), s. 2 (c)] Copyright, itself not only permits assignment of copyright in the works in present time but in future work also. Agreement not violative at

Uses

descendible according to the rules of the Common Law relating to the inheritable estates of intestates: and the special customs of gavelkind, borough-English, and copyholds, determined the particular descent of uses. This is an illustration of the … of copyholds-sine no person can be introduced into the estate without the lord's consent; for if use were permitted, there would then be effected a transmutation of the possession by operation of law, which would be contrary

Adoption

authorized unless two spouses jointly apply. A male may not adopt a female infant unless the court finds special reasons. The consents of the parents and guardians (if any) and of any other persons having the custody … Adoption of Poor Child.--Sometimes benevolent persons apply to County or Borough Councils, formerly boards of guardians, to be permitted to adopt children from the workhouse whose parents are unknown. Though there is no legal objection to the

As he thinks fit

indicates the extent of the power conferred upon it which cannot be limited or circumscribed, Ghulam Qadir v. Special Tribunal, (2002) 1 SCC 33 (66). … without reference to reliable, cogent and admissible evidence, cannot be termed to be a decision arrived on facts. Permitting the revisional authority to 'pass' such order in relation thereto as he thinks fit' clearly indicates the extent

Operator

Means a person engaged by the developer for providing infrastructure facilities, amenities and services in the zone. [Gujarat Special Economic Zone Act, 2004, s. 2(i)] Means a person engaged by the developer for providing infrastructure or amenity … person having possession or control of the vehicle and includes any person whose name is entered in the permit as the holder thereof. This definition is wide enough to include the appellant-company who was owner of the

County Courts

(s. 43). There are also, in addition to the general jurisdiction, varied and extensive jurisdictions under about 70 special (English) Acts, including the Bills of Sale Act, 1882, the Inebriate Acts, the Agricultural Holdings Acts, the Charitable … (English) County Court Judges (Retirement Pensions and Deputies) Act,1919, a County Court judge must retire at 72 unless permitted to stay on by the Lord Chancellor toanage not exceeding 75. Ss. 11-15 provide for the appointment and

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