Advocate Deputy A Scottish law officer who could act as public prosecutor. Advowee One who has an Advowson, normally a nobleman, who had the right to presentation to a vacant benefice, in English ecclesiastical law. Aeronaut A balloonist or a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls Affe...
First Public Health Act in Britain. Gold discovered in California. Europe is rocked by short-lived revolutions; Paris, Berlin, and Vienna run with blood. Louis Napoleon, nephew of the Emperor, becomes President of France. England remains stable, and 1846-1866 is a period of quiet Whig rule....
"Third Party Consent Searches Following the Search and Surveillance Act" It also considers the concept of "apparent" authority which has arisen in New Zealand from the Court of Appeal's decision in R v Bradley as well as... S Mcmullan - 《Victoria University of Wellington Law Review》 被引...
(Jacobs and Darling) begun to act in a manner which conflicted with numerous Victorian Education Department Policies, including but not limited to breaching parental dispute policy by ceasing to be impartial, unnecessarily becoming involved in parental family law matters and supporting/assisting one ...
Freckeltona Barrister‐at‐Law, c/o Barristers’ Clerk Howells, Owen Dixon Chamber, 205 William St, Melbourne, Victoria, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, NT and ACT, VIC, 3000, Australia E-mail: ◆ b Department of Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University◆ c Medical Faculty, Monash UniversityIan...
In 1809, residing on a galley once more, and realizing his life was a vicious circle, Vidocq decided to reform. In exchange for his liberty, he offered to act as an informant. He was sent to a regular prison, where he gathered information from his fellow inmates. Happy with his work,...
Influenced by the proposals made by the Colonial Secretary Earl Grey and the Home Secretary George Grey under the Penal Servitude Act of 1853, convicts were granted conditional licences--'tickets of leave'--to serve out their sentences on British soil. Many sceptics believed that the Act would ...
Act adopted in 1847 set the working time to ten hours per day and fifty-eight hours per week for women and people younger than eighteen. Another law came into effect in 1875 when a twelve-years boy George Brewster died after his master made him climb on the chimney of Fulbourn Hospital ...
The Victorians are master story tellers, and the intense, psychological study of character is one of the defining features of Victorian novels (particularly the hefty ones). Rarely does a character act (“show”) first before an in-depth description of his personality, and all the vices and ...
During the Victorian period, the House of Commons became the centre of government, the House of Lords lost power (though it remained influential until the Parliament Act of 1911), and the monarchy transformed into a symbol of the nation. The House of Commons consisted of about 600 men called...