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Town Hall
Matched in: Term Town Hall
Guildhall
order to make laws for the regulation of the city or town, and to administer summary justice. See TOWN HALL.
Moot-hall, or Moot-house
Matched in: Term Moot-hall, or Moot-house
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Stocks
stocks have been preserved in some country villages and towns; e.g., at Woodeaton in Oxfordshire and in the Town Hall of Much Wenlock in Shropshire.
Militia
or standing army, being the inhabitants, or, as they have been sometimes called, the trained bands of a town or county, who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see … or county, who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see Hall, Cons. Hist. iii. p. 259. The statutes on this subject make service compulsory upon all men between eighteen
Music and dancing licences
see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51). Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government
Gemot
kinds were-(1) The folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people, whether it was held in a city or town or consisted of the whole shire. It was sometimes summoned by the ringing of the mootbell. Its regular … ordered to be held twice a year. This was the sheriff's tourn or view of franc-pledge. (5) The halle-gemot, or the Court-baron. (6) The wardemotus, Anc. Inst. Eng.
Notice
held that relief could not be given to the purchaser (who had become affected with notice of a town planning resolution registered in a local land charges registry without disclosure by the vendor), as the registered incumbrance … the limits of a local deed registry do not come within this rule, and see also DEARLE v. HALL; LAND CHARGES; REGISTRATION OF LAND; PRIORI-TIES; MORTGAGE. See also PUBLIC NOTICE. Notice does not necessarily mean 'communication in
Court-leet
the jury of the Court-leet chose the mayor, port-reeve, or other chief municipal officer of the borough or town to which the leet jurisdiction was appended; but the (English) Muncipal Corporations Act,1883, reorganized all such boroughs as … still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for
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