Local GovernmentMacmillan, 1883 - 160 pages |
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... purposes governed by special Acts ; and in such cases the tables given above may be somewhat varied . In the Nottingham Union Guardians are elected for three years . CHAPTER III . THE PARISH . The Civil Parish - II . ] 31 GENERAL VIEW .
... purposes governed by special Acts ; and in such cases the tables given above may be somewhat varied . In the Nottingham Union Guardians are elected for three years . CHAPTER III . THE PARISH . The Civil Parish - II . ] 31 GENERAL VIEW .
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Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers. CHAPTER III . THE PARISH . The Civil Parish - Different kinds of Parishes - History of the Parish - Decay of Parish Functions - The Vestry - Its Func- tions - The Overseers - The Ecclesiastical ...
Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers. CHAPTER III . THE PARISH . The Civil Parish - Different kinds of Parishes - History of the Parish - Decay of Parish Functions - The Vestry - Its Func- tions - The Overseers - The Ecclesiastical ...
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... Parish , which may or may not be identical with the poor - law parish . Many hamlets , villages , and tithings which ... civil or poor - law parish and is often confused with it , though there is now no necessary connection between ...
... Parish , which may or may not be identical with the poor - law parish . Many hamlets , villages , and tithings which ... civil or poor - law parish and is often confused with it , though there is now no necessary connection between ...
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... civil parish , through the ecclesiastical parish , up to the old Saxon township . Some have carried its lineage still higher . " The township , " says De Tocqueville , " is the only association which is so perfectly natural that wher ...
... civil parish , through the ecclesiastical parish , up to the old Saxon township . Some have carried its lineage still higher . " The township , " says De Tocqueville , " is the only association which is so perfectly natural that wher ...
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... civil organisation , and the parish therefore is a more modern institution than the township . The parish , says Professor Stubbs , was the township or cluster of townships to which a single priest ministered , and to whom its tithes ...
... civil organisation , and the parish therefore is a more modern institution than the township . The parish , says Professor Stubbs , was the township or cluster of townships to which a single priest ministered , and to whom its tithes ...
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Page 157 - This series is intended to meet the demand for accessible information on the ordinary conditions, and the current terms, of our political life.
Page 160 - The following are the titles of the volumes :— 1. Central Government. HD TRAILL, DCL, late Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. [Ready. 2. The Electorate and the Legislature. SPENCER WALPOLE, Author of " The History of England from 1815.
Page 65 - s most unblushing advocate, " made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho, fall down before him, and returned laden with surrenders, the spoils of towns.
Page 116 - Rates, or any or either of them, prospectively, in order to raise Money for the Payment of future Charges and Expenses, or retrospectively in order to raise Money for the Payment of Charges and Expenses which may have been incurred at any Time within Six Months before the making of the Rate...
Page 89 - This institution may be considered as a revival of the ancient local earldom ; and it certainly took away from the sheriff a great part of the dignity and importance which he had acquired since the discontinuance of that office. Yet the lord lieutenant has so peculiarly military an authority, that it does not in any degree control the civil power of the sheriff as the executive minister of the law.
Page 159 - The books are not intended to interpret disputed points in Acts of Parliament, nor to refer in detail to clauses or sections of those Acts ; but to select and sum up the salient features of any branch of legislation, so as to place the ordinary citizen in possession of the main points of the law. The following are the titles of the volumes : — CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.
Page 7 - ... the national Parliament, and there are the same strong reasons for plurality of votes. Only, there is not so decisive an objection, in the inferior as in the higher body, to making the plural voting depend (as in some of the local elections of our own country) on a mere money qualification : for the honest and frugal dispensation of money forms so much larger a part of the business of the local, than of the national body, that there is more justice as well as policy in allowing a greater proportional...