# Cambridge University Act 1856, Section 50: Interpretation of terms.


In the construction of this Act, the expression “University or college emolument” shall include all headships, Downing professorships, fellowships, bye-fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, Bible clerkships, sizarships, subsizarships, and every other such place of emolument payable out of the revenues of the University, or of any college, or to be held and enjoyed by the members of any college as such within the University; and the word “professor” shall be taken to include the three royal professors of Hebrew, Greek, and divinity, and public readers or lecturers in the University, except the Barnaby lecturers; and the governing body of any college shall mean the head and all actual fellows thereof, bye-fellows excepted, being graduates, and in Downing College shall mean the head, professors, and all actual fellows thereof, bye-fellows excepted, being graduates; and the word “statutes” shall be taken to include all ordinances and regulations of the University, and all ordinances and regulations contained in any charter, deed of composition, or other instrument of foundation or endowment of a college, and all bye-laws, ordinances, and regulations; and the word “vacation” shall be taken to include that part of Easter term which falls after the division of term.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/19-20/88/section/50 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cambridge-university-act-1856/section-50
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