Reports of Cases Decided by the Railway and Canal Commissioners, 1. köideSweet and Maxwell., 1874 Vols. 1-6 and 8-16 each contain digest of railway cases decided in the Superior Court of Law. |
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accommodation affidavits application Ardrossan Baxendale Brighton and South Bristol Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Canal Traffic Act carriage of coals carry coals cartage Caterham coal and coke Cockburn collieries Commissioners common carriers company's complainants consigned consignees conveyance conveyed costs Court dealers delivery depôt distance Eastern Counties Railway enjoining Exch favour Fenny Compton Forest of Dean Garton giving an undue Glasgow Ipswich Junction Company line of railway London and South Lubenham Lydney Messrs Miles Platting NICHOLSON North Devon Railway North Eastern North Eastern Railway Oldham Road station owners Oxlade pany parcels passengers Peterborough petitioner Pickford and Company preference or advantage Railway and Canal Railways Act Ransome received refused Regulation of Railways respect route Ruabon Coal Company rule show cause South Devon South Western Railway statute Stratford-upon-Avon trucks undue and unreasonable undue or unreasonable undue preference undue prejudice unreasonable preference unreasonable prejudice viâ Vict waggons Western Company Western Railway Company Workington
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Page 14 - Kingdom shall be paid into the receipt of Her Majesty's exchequer in such manner as the treasury may direct, and shall be carried to and form part of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom; and all penalties recovered in any British possession shall be paid over into the public treasury of such possession, and form part of the public revenue thereof.
Page 77 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 13 - Parliament within Thirty Days after the making thereof, if Parliament is then sitting, and, if not, then within Thirty Days after the next Meeting of Parliament.
Page 3 - ... carrier or other person shall fail to obey such injunction or other proper process, mandatory or otherwise; and...
Page 97 - Every railway company, canal company, and railway and canal company, shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable facilities for the receiving and forwarding and delivering of traffic upon and from the several railways and canals belonging to or worked by such companies respectively...
Page 7 - ... or advantage or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and so that no obstruction may be offered to the public desirous of using such railways or GROUP RATESCONSTRUCT i ojr OF ACT CONCERNING.
Page 89 - Provided that all such tolls be at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, •whether per ton per mile or otherwise, in respect of all passengers, and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances...
Page 171 - Subject to the provisions and restrictions in this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, it shall be lawful for the company, for the purpose of constructing the railway, or the accommodation works connected therewith, hereinafter mentioned, to execute any of the following works...
Page 7 - ... and canal company having or working railways or canals which form part of a continuous line of railway or canal or railway and canal communication, or which have the terminus, station, or wharf of the one near...
Page 14 - Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post; and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post office.