A Handbook of the Sheriff and Justice of Peace Small Debt Courts with Notes, References, and Forms, 369. raamat

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William Blackwood, 1884 - 200 pages

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Page 91 - ... shall extend to a body politic, corporate or collegiate, as well as an individual; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as several persons or things; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male...
Page 75 - Act to the next Circuit Court of Justiciary, or where there are no Circuit Courts to the High Court of Justiciary...
Page 122 - workman " does not include a domestic or menial servant, but save as aforesaid, means any person who, being a labourer, servant in husbandry, journeyman, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour, whether under the age of twentyone years or above that age, has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract be made before or after the passing of this Act, be express or implied, oral or in writing, and be a contract of service or a contract...
Page 152 - If any person called as a witness, or required or desiring to make an affidavit or deposition, shall refuse or be unwilling from alleged conscientious motives to be sworn, it shall be lawful for the court or judge or other presiding officer, or person qualified to take affidavits or depositions...
Page 91 - Number only shall extend and be applied to several Persons or Things as well as One Person or Thing; and every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall extend and be applied to a Female as well as a Male.
Page 122 - The provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any powers of proving documents given by any existing statute or existing at common law.
Page 166 - Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to any debt or demand...
Page 120 - If, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, it thinks it just to do so, it may rescind any contract between the employer and the workman upon such terms as to the apportionment of wages or damages, or other sums due thereunder, and as to the payment of wages or damages, or other sums due, as it thinks just...
Page 112 - Instance in the said Matter, with Certification, in case of Failure, of being held as confessed ; requiring you also to deliver to the Defender a Copy of any Account...
Page 170 - ... hereby decern and ordain instant execution by arrestment, and also execution to pass hereon by poinding and imprisonment after free days.

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