Tyburn Ticket - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Tyburn ticket, a certificate which was given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction....
Tyburn
Tyburn, the place where executions took place informer times; it was situate on the Oxford Road, not far from where the Marble Arch now stands. The execution was preceded by a procession from Newgate to Tyburn, the criminal being drawn in a cart, but this practice was abolished in 1783, and the sentences thenceforward carried out in front of Newgate. See Gent. Mag. 1783, pp. 974, 1060; Croker Papers, vol. iii. pp. 15, 16; Boswell's Johnson, Ed. by Birkbeck Hill, vol. iv., p. 188....
Commutation ticket
A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance as increase of travel specif a ticket for a certain number of or for daily trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb 4 1887 24 Stat 379 and in 145 U S 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being ldquoobviously within the commuting principlerdquo...
History-ticket
History-ticket, 'history-ticket' means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the rules thereunder. [Prisons Act, 1894 (9 of 1894), s. 3(6)]...
Ticket
Ticket, as a printed card or a piece of paper that gives a person a specific rights, as to attend a theatre, ride on a train, claim or purchase, etc. Webster's Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 25A.For a railway passenger not to produce a railway ticket on request by an officer or servant of a railway company, or to pay his fare from the place when he started, or to give the officer or servant his name and address, is summarily punishable by fine up to 40s. See FARE.A certificate indicating that the person to whom it is issued, or holder, is entitled to some right or privilege....
Passing-ticket
Passing-ticket, a kind of permit, being a note or check which the toll-clerks on some canals given to the boatmen, specifying the lading for which they have paid toll....
Tickets
Tickets, of course are only the tokens of the chance purchased, and it is the purchase of this chance which is the essence of a lottery, Madras High Court in Sesha Ayyar v. Krishna Ayyar, AIR 1936 Mad 225: ILR 59 Mad 562 (FB)....
Tickets of leave
Tickets of leave, licences to be at large granted to convicts for good conduct, but recallable upon subsequent misconduct. See the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, and Penal Servitude Acts of 1864 and 1891....
Lottery
Lottery, a game of chance; a distribution of prizes by lot or chance, Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games,' all lotteries were declared to be public nuisances, and all grants, patents, or licences for the same to be contrary to law; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1802 (42 Geo. 3, c. 119), imposes a penalty of 500l. on any person keeping any place for any lottery' not authorized by Parliament' for as lotteries were found to be a ready mode for raising money for the service of the state, they were from time to time sanctioned by Acts of Parliament passed expressly for this purpose (see 4 Geo. 4, c. 60), but by 6 Geo. 4, c. 60, they were abolished. As to what constitutes 'keeping' within the Act of 1802, see Martin v. Benjamin, (1907) 1 KB 64; but a body corporate cannot be convicted (s. 41) as rogues and vagabonds, Hawke v. Hulton, (1909) 2 KB 93.A physical lot is not essential to a lottery, Barclay v. Pearson, (1893) 2 Ch 154. In ...
Pawnbroker
Pawnbroker, contemplates that every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of goods or chattels and who purchases goods or chattels and pays or advances thereon any sum of money, with or under an agreement or understanding expressed or implied that the goods or chattel may be afterwards repurchased on any terms, is a 'pawnbroker', Karnataka Pawnbrokers' Assn. v. State of Karnataka, (1998) 7 SCC 707.One who lends money on goods which he receives upon pledge.The rate of interest which pawnbrokers may take has been fixed by law since 1800, by 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 48, which Act placed their whole business under various other restrictions. By the (English) Pawn-brokers Act, 1872 (which applies to Scotland, but not to Ireland), this Act, together with its amending Acts, is repealed, and the statute law of the subject consolidated. Sch. IV., dealing with profits and charges, has been amended by the (English) Pawnbrokers Act, 1922, in respect of loans not exceeding 40s.By s. 5 of the A...
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