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ways and means 1 : methods and resources for raising the necessary revenues for the expenses of a nation or state 2 often cap W&M : a legislative committee with jurisdiction over ways and means ...
Finance Acts
Finance Acts. In and after 1894 the Annual Taxing Acts, which had for a long time borne the short titles of 'Customs and Inland Revenue Acts,' have borne the short titles of 'Finance Acts.' The Finance Act incorporates the Budget which is the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual statement or report of the financial results of the past year, estimated expenditure and income of the coming year and proposals in regard to taxation. These proposals are passed into law by the Finance Act but are enforced as soon as a resolution of the Committee of Ways and Means agrees to them in order to prevent forestalling and anticipation in commodities. See Halsb. L.E., title 'Parliament (Ways and Means).'...
jurisdiction
jurisdiction [Latin jurisdictio, from juris, genitive of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of the crime "U.S. Constitution art. IV"] [a court of competent ] see also situs International Shoe Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section compare venue NOTE: Jurisdiction determines which court system should properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their decision-making capacities. ancillary jurisdiction : jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court allowing it to adjudicate claims that are based on state law but that form part of a case...
referral
referral : the act or an instance of referring [appealed the of the bill to the Ways and Means committee] ...
Bill in Parliament
Bill in Parliament, is either (1) public, affecting the countries of England, Scotland, or Ireland generally, or a very important part of them, as London; (2) local and personal, affecting particular areas only, as railway construction bills, water or gas supply bills, etc.; or (3) private, as bills settling estate, divorce bills (rendered generally unnecessary by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857), and naturalization bills.All three kinds formerly required the assent of Sovereign, Lords, and Commons, but the assent of the House of Lords can now be dispensed with in the case of bills passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911; and by the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913 (3 Geo. 5, c. 3), resolution passed by a Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Commons varying or renewing taxation has for a limited period the same statutory effect as if contained in an Act of Parliament. In the case of local and personal bills and private bills the prom...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Kangaroo
Kangaroo, is a colloquial term for the power with which the Speaker of House of Commons, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of ways and means and the Chairman of Standing Committees are invested to select what amendments and new clauses shall be proposed so that limited time available is used to the best advantage. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 110.Kangaroo, is a process of selecting amendmentsis known as 'kangaroo' because it involves 'jumping' over certain amendments on the order paper. Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 686....
Parliamentary Committee
Parliamentary Committee, a committee of members of the House of Peers, or of the House of Commons, appointed by either House for the purpose of making inquiries, by the examination of witness or otherwise, into matters which could not be conveniently inquired into by the whole House. Not only any Bill, but any subject that is brought under the consideration of either House, may, if the House thinks proper, be referred to a committee; and when the inquiry is ended, the committee, through their chairman, make a report to the House of the result. All private Bills, such as Bills for railways, canals, roads, or other undertakings, in which the public are concerned, are referred to committees of each House before they are sanctioned by that House. Their reports are not absolutely binding upon the House, but the House seldom reverses their decision.As to the power of such committees to administer oaths to witnesses, see the (English) Parliamentary Witnesses Oaths Act, 1871.As to the powers o...
Reflection
Reflection, is a remark or statement imputing discredit or blame to other, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1221.Reflection, reflecting on the proceedings of the House is a violation of the privileges of the House; the reflection is not allowed to be cast on the conduct of the sovereign, Chancellor, the Governor of an independent territory, the Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means, members of either House of Parliament or judges of the substantive motion of the adjournment, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Ebn., 1997, p. 384, 385....
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 ...
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