Sentences with phrase «public conveyance»

The Travel Accident Benefit pays an additional 100 % for accidents in which the insured was a passenger on a public conveyance being operated by a common carrier to transport passengers for hire.

You can also receive additional death benefits above and beyond the face value if you die in an auto accident or public conveyance.

Ministerial discounts, clergy fares on public conveyances, exemption from military service, and so forth, confront the clergyman with other mental health hazards.

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-- The term «specified public transportation» means transportation by bus, rail, or any other conveyance (other than by aircraft) that provides the general public with general or special service (including charter service) on a regularand continuing basis.

Under the Americans for Disabilities Act, a federal law that provides public access and job protection to handicapped people, service dogs of all types must be allowed in public buildings and conveyances, including taxicabs, buses, theaters, and restaurants.

So the American southwestern civilization is one huge water hydraulic conveyance system and locally effluent treatment systems to maintain public health.

[11] Rouhshi Low and Ernest Foo, «The Susceptibility of Digital Signatures to Fraud in the National Electronic Conveyancing System: An Analysis», Australian Property Law Journal, 17 (3)(2009), 303 - 325, comment, at 307, that «When the recipient receives the coded summary and the certificate, the recipient can use the CA's public key to verify the CA's signature on the certificate.

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

No wonder Americans pay through the nose for conveyancing services in an environment described by the Government of California thusly: «Title insurance is a dysfunctional industry in which the public pays too much» and by the Supreme Court of Iowa as «an invidious form of business».

The Americans have made quite a mess of their legal system -LRB-(1) far too many lawyers per capita, (2) far too much useless and immeasurably costly and roiling litigation, and (3) allowing the «dysfunctional» and «invidious» title insurance industry to rip away, through grossly unfair business practices, most of the conveyancing work from the real estate bar to the great cost of the public and great harm to the title system), but on the issue of rejecting ABS, they have got it right.

You may say «economies of scale», but that would return me to my point that the handful of giant companies that have cartelized conveyancing in the US have given absolutely no benefit of any such economies, if they even exist, to the public.

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Brian provides a full range of real estate services in relation to commercial leasing, development, construction and financing as well as public procurement matters and residential conveyancing.

This includes wills, trusts and tax matters; sensitive advice on family and matrimonial issues such as pre-nuptials, divorce and the financial aspects of it; residential conveyancing; public notary and lasting powers of attorney.

Now the US public has a handful of title insurers to, ahem, choose among, and their conveyancing costs to the US public have soared.

If you want to make gargantuan changes to a profession that has served the public extraordinarily well at, except for the cost of litigation, fair cost for decades, then you need to prove that the changes will be beneficial, and to do that you have to overcome numerous examples of where ABS or ABS - like scenarios have done nothing but harm and hose the public (e.g., US title insurers taking conveyancing away from lawyers).

One is the title insurance industry in the US that essentially took over conveyancing from lawyers, driving up the cost to the American public.

Whenever big entities have pushed their way into small firm solicitor services, the public has been badly hurt in every way with the title insurance experience in the US being a prime example (they took over most of the conveyancing and promptly set about screwing the public — «a dysfunctional industry in which the public pays too much» according to the government of the State of California).

According to The Law Society's Conveyancing Handbook (11th Edition)(the handbook) there are only two available search methods, the National Land Information Service Channel (NLISC) and the Public Records Office in Kew (PRO).

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Legislation Commented On: Bill C - 46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 2017 Parliament is toting marihuana legalization as a necessary public safety measure.

As to the harm of consolidation, see the US title insurance / conveyancing world: very high cost to the public, very lousy service to the public, and virtually no claims paid or title problems corrected.

-- The right of a citizen to travel and transport property and to use the ordinary and usual conveyances of the day may, under the police power, be regulated by the city in the interest of public safety and welfare; but the city may not arbitrarily or unreasonably prohibit or restrict it, nor may it permit one to exercise it and refuse to permit another of like qualifications, under like conditions and circumstances, to exercise it.

In the US, where real estate conveyancing is often completed by title insurance companies and title / escrow agents, complex regulatory safeguards have had to be introduced to protect the public.

In addition, it provides a national probate, contentious probate, public law and conveyancing service and is the UK's leading court of protection practice.

It is preferable that each seller or buyer appears before his or her own lawyer or notary public for execution of conveyance documents.

A licensee may be required to take documents to a seller and / or buyer for execution under unusual circumstances and such documents must be taken to a seller and / or buyer accompanied by a letter of undertaking from the conveyancing notary public or lawyer confirming arrangements for registration and payment of money.