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Township, the district of a town, tithing, or vill, which three are of the same signification in law.-Steph. Com., vol. 1, Introduction. The township is the unit of the early constitutional machinery in England (Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, vol. 1, p. 82), and the boundaries of the parish, and the township or townships with which it coincides, are generally the same (ibid.), 'parish' being properly the ecclesiastical term, and 'township' the civil one.In a government survey a square tract six miles on each side, containing thirty six sq. miles of land 2. In some states, a civil and political subdivision of country, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498...
Tithing
Tithing, a Saxon subdivision of the hundred, replacing the name of township as the unit of local administration (see Stubbs's Constitutional History, vol. i. p. 85) in some parts of England, the name still existing in Somersetshire and Wiltshire; the number or company of ten men with their families, knit together in a society, all of them being bound to the king for their peaceable and good behaviour, the chief of whom was called the tithing-man. See TOWNSHIP....
Way
Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
constable
constable [Old French conestable military commander, chief of the royal household, from Late Latin comes stabuli, literally, officer of the stable] : a public officer usually of a town or township responsible for keeping the peace and for minor judicial duties ...
supervisor
supervisor : one that directs or oversees a person, group, department, organization, or operation ;specif : the popularly elected chief administrative official of a township or other subdivision in some states of the U.S. ...
Chazy epoch
An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system so named from a township in Clinton Co New York See the Diagram under Geology...
Deme
A territorial subdivision of Attica also of modern Greece corresponding to a township...
deputy
One appointed as the substitute of another and empowered to act for him in his name or his behalf a substitute in office a lieutenant a representative a delegate a vicegerent as the deputy of a prince of a sheriff of a township etc...
Kudikidappu Karan
Kudikidappu Karan, means a person who has neither a homestead nor any land exceeding in extent three cents in any city or major municipality or five cents in any other municipality or tencents in any panchayat area or township in possession either as owner or as tenant, on which he could erect a homestead, Kochkunju Nair v. Koshy Alexander, (1993) 3 SCC 482: AIR 1999 SC 2272 (2273). [Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (1 of 1964), s. 2(25)]...
Local authority
Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering essential services or, with the control and management of civil services, within a specified local area. [Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 2(h)]It is the political subdivision functioning within the framework of constitution and enjoying certain degree of autonomy serving as administrative units for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321.Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law for the time being in force. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(e)]Means a municipal corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, District Panchayat, Taluka Pa...
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