Town Hall - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: town hallTown Hall
Town Hall, the hall where the public business of a town is transacted, and on or near the door of which, in the case of a municipal borough, public notices are directed to be fixed by s. 232 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (repealed except as to London). See Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 288....
Moot-hall, or Moot-house
Moot-hall, or Moot-house, council-chamber, hall of judgment, town-hall....
Guildhall
Guildhall, the chief hall of a city or borough-town, for holding courts, and for the meeting of the corporation in order to make laws for the regulation of the city or town, and to administer summary justice. See TOWN HALL....
Stocks
Stocks. Two boards each with semi-circular holes, fitting together within posts, and padlocked together so as to confine the legs of a person just above the feet, anciently maintained at a public spot in every parish as a mode of ignominious confinement for petty offences. For drunkenness it was prescribed in default of distress for a fine, by 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, s. 4 (not repealed until 1872 by the Licensing Act of that year), and similarly for Sunday trading by the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (still unrepealed). See SUNDAY.The punishment of the stocks began to be disused about the beginning of the nineteenth century, but has not been expressly abolished; and 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....
Dancing hall
Dancing hall, 'dancing hall' as understood in the ordinary parlance is a place where dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life. In the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a 'restaurant' where a proper dancing floor is provided and the guests entertain themselves by using the floor to the tune of live or recorded music. Simply because the recreation in the shape of dancing is provided along with a posheating place would not make it different than a 'dancing hall' where drinks and eatables are also invariably provided, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. East India Hotels, AIR 1995 SC 419 (423): (1994) 5 SCC 690. [Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951 (33 of 1951), s....
Town
Town, denotes the existence of houses in close proximity, concentration of a large number of people in a comparatively small area, engagement of a bulk of the population in non-agricultural activities, Baliat Sheikh v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1952 Cal 753; State v. Jagdish B. Rao, AIR 1970 Goa, Daman and Diu 54.Town, is an assemblage of buildings, public or private larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government, AIR 1970 Goa 54 (55). (Police Act, 1861, s. 34)1. A center of population that is larger and more fully developed then a village, but that is not incorporated as a city2. The territory within which this population lives, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Ville [fr. tun, Sax.], a tithing or vill; any collection of houses larger than a village. A place 'cannot be a towne in law, unlesse it hath, or in time pasthath had, a church, and celebration of divine service, sacraments, and burials' (Co. Litt. 115 b). 'And it appeareth by Littleton, that a to...
Stationers' hall
Stationers' hall. The (repealed) Copyright Act, 1842, authorized, in every case of copyright, the registra-tion of the title of the proprietor at Stationers' Hall, and provided that, without previous registration, no action should be commenced, though an omission to register did not otherwise affect the copyright itself. It was founded A.D. 1553.002 Hall. Hist. Lit., pt. 2, c. 8, p. 366. This registration is now unnecessary; see (English) Copyright Act, 1911...
In the town of.... and surrounding areas and extensions
In the town of.... and surrounding areas and extensions, surrounding areas and extensions would naturally include those areas which are on the periphery of the town, and which are adjacent to the town. They would not obviously include any areas which are geographically far removed from and situated at long distance from the town and which could not be said to be in the vicinity of the town, CIT v. Kamla Town Trust, AIR 1996 SC 620: (1996) 7 SCC 349....
Improvement of towns
Improvement of towns. The (English) Towns Im-provement Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), 'comprises in one Act sundry provisions usually contained in' special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions themselves.Of this Act, ss. 64-83, which relate to the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public health Act, 1875, by ss. 160, 169 of that Act.The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises loc...
Town-service route
Town-service route, would mean a route within a town to enable passengers to go from one place to another in the town. But generally people in the peripheral and neighbouring areas would be frequenting the town and to serve them, buses have to ply between a place in the town and a place outside, Andhra Pradesh S.R.T.C. v. State Transport Appellate Tribunal, (1998) 7 SCC 353...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial