The Legal Observer, Digest, and Journal of Jurisprudence, 35. köide

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Spettigue and Farrance, 1848

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Page 181 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 113 - An " Act for the more easy recovery of small debts and
Page 6 - ... of years, at will or otherwise, shall be liable to be taken by virtue of any execution...
Page 27 - Every person who rolls or carries any cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any ladder, plank, pole, timber, or log of wood, upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the footway...
Page 177 - It is a very useful rule in the construction of a statute to adhere to the ordinary meaning of the words used, and to the grammatical construction, unless that is at variance with the intention of the Legislature to be collected from the statute itself, or leads to any manifest absurdity or repugnance, in which case the language may be varied or modified so as to avoid such inconvenience, but no further.
Page 451 - That in all cases where the plaintiff in any such action shall be entitled to recover, and he shall prove the levying or payment of any penalty, or sum of money, under any conviction or order, as parcel of the damages he seeks to recover, or if he prove that he was imprisoned under...
Page 279 - I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his majesty, his heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against him or them. And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown, which succession, by an act entitled — ' An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject...
Page 342 - ... parts, or any book whatsoever, and shall have employed or shall employ any persons to compose the same, or any volumes, parts, essays, articles or portions thereof, for publication in or as part of the same...
Page 149 - Barrister, be insufficiently described for the purpose of being identified, such Barrister shall expunge the name of every such person from such list, unless the matter or matters, so omitted or insufficiently described, be supplied to the satisfaction of such Barrister before he shall have completed the revision of such list, in which case he shall then and there insert the same in such list...
Page 237 - Jan. 1 1. [The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Alfred Tennyson, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten...

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