The Cabinet Lawyer: A Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional; Intended for Practical Use and General InformationLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874 - 870 pages |
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... hold office , which is usually so long as they can command a majority of the House of Commons . The number and selection of the cabinet council depend on the queen's pleasure , under the advice of the prime minister whom she may have ...
... hold office , which is usually so long as they can command a majority of the House of Commons . The number and selection of the cabinet council depend on the queen's pleasure , under the advice of the prime minister whom she may have ...
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... hold , or are supposed to hold , certain ancient baronies under the king . The lords temporal consist of all peers of the realm , being of full age and not mentally incapacitated : the number of these may be increased at the pleasure of ...
... hold , or are supposed to hold , certain ancient baronies under the king . The lords temporal consist of all peers of the realm , being of full age and not mentally incapacitated : the number of these may be increased at the pleasure of ...
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... hold up his hand . In civil actions , his house cannot be searched by the sheriff without the authority of a royal warrant . He is privileged to sit covered on the bench in courts of law , and to give his opinion to the judge . He is ...
... hold up his hand . In civil actions , his house cannot be searched by the sheriff without the authority of a royal warrant . He is privileged to sit covered on the bench in courts of law , and to give his opinion to the judge . He is ...
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... hold separate courts . The barrister notifies his appointment to the clerks of the peace , or the town clerk ; and such clerks are , as noon as possible , to transmit to him abstracts of the lists of claim- ants and objections , that he ...
... hold separate courts . The barrister notifies his appointment to the clerks of the peace , or the town clerk ; and such clerks are , as noon as possible , to transmit to him abstracts of the lists of claim- ants and objections , that he ...
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... hold up their hands for a candidate , is bribery under the act , from its tendency to influence an election . By . 6 , the names of persons convicted of bribery , treating , or intimidation , are to be struck out of the register of ...
... hold up their hands for a candidate , is bribery under the act , from its tendency to influence an election . By . 6 , the names of persons convicted of bribery , treating , or intimidation , are to be struck out of the register of ...
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Page 9 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, whether there shall or shall not be any new consideration for such promise or ratification after full age.
Page 757 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 13 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority,— 1.
Page 565 - For every £100, and also for any fractional part of £100, of the amount or value of the property settled, or agreed to be settled 0 5 0 Exemption.
Page 603 - ... conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Page 13 - Shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction, or on indictment as hereinafter mentioned, be liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Page 538 - ... wife or children of any money or property wherein he had not at the date of his marriage any estate or interest, whether vested or contingent in possession or remainder, and not being money or property of or in right of his wife, shall, upon his becoming bankrupt before such property or money has been actually transferred or paid pursuant to such contract or covenant, be void against his trustee appointed under this Act. " ' Settlement ' shall for the purposes of this section include any conveyance...
Page 474 - ... which he has served had earned freight, shall, subject to all other rules of law and conditions applicable to the case...
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Page 538 - ... with a view of giving such creditor a preference over the other creditors shall, if the person making, taking, paying, or suffering the same...