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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case of a municipal borough, public notices are directed to be fixed by s. 232 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (repealed except as to London).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....
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....
Moot-hall, or Moot-house
Moot-hall, or Moot-house, council-chamber, hall of judgment, 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 For drunkenness it was prescribed in default of distress for a fine, by 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, s. 4 (not repealed until 1872 by the Licensing Act of that year), and similarly for Sunday trading by the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (still unrepealed).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....
Militia
Militia, the national soldiery, as distinguished from the regular forces 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 Hall, Cons. Hist. iii. p. 259. The statutes on this subject make service compulsory upon all men between eighteen and thirty, who are to be selected by ballot (23 & 24 Vict. c. 120, s. 7), with exceptions for peers, clergymen, articled clerks, officers on half pay, apprentices, poor men having more than one child born in wedlock and other persons (42 Geo. 3, c. 90, s. 43); but by Acts dating from 10 Geo. 4, c. 10, the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments for the Militia were from time to time suspended.Finally in 1865, by the (English) Militia (Ballot Suspension) Act, 1865--a temporary Act, continued annually from time to time by successive Expiring Laws Continuance Acts--these statutes were suspended, subject t...
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, 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 Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is 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 a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Gemot
Gemot, a mote or moote, meeting, public assembly. The various 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 meetings were annual. (2) the shire-gemot, or county Court, which met twice during the year. (3) The burg-gemot, which met thrice in the year. (4) The hundred-gemot, or hundred Court, which met twelve times a year in the Saxon ages; but afterwards a full, perhaps an extraordinary, meeting of every hundred was 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
Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the knowledge of a fact directly home to the party; or (3) constructive or implied, which is no more than evidence of facts which raise such a strong presumption of notice that equity will not allow the presumption to be rebutted. [S. 154, I.P.C. and Art. 61(2)(a) const. 56 Indian Evidence Act]Constructive notice may be subdivided into: (a) where the facts of which actual evidence is supplied give rise to a further enquiry which a man exercising ordinary caution would make equity has added constructive notice of the facts, which that inquiry would have elicited; and (b) where there has been a designed abstinence from inquiry for the very purpose of avoiding notice. See CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.A purchaser with notice may protect himself by purchasing the title of another bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice; for, otherwise, ...
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