The Law of Railway CompaniesStevens and Sons, 1888 - 916 pages |
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... give notice of increased charges . Inn may be receiving- house . Formal notice of nature of goods not necessary . Act applies to land journey only . Gross negli- gence . Damage by goods being The marginal notes are not to be looked at ...
... give notice of increased charges . Inn may be receiving- house . Formal notice of nature of goods not necessary . Act applies to land journey only . Gross negli- gence . Damage by goods being The marginal notes are not to be looked at ...
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... give receipts , value shall have been so declared , and the increased rate of charge acknowledg- ing increased paid , or an engagement to pay the same shall have been accepted as herein before mentioned , the person receiving such ...
... give receipts , value shall have been so declared , and the increased rate of charge acknowledg- ing increased paid , or an engagement to pay the same shall have been accepted as herein before mentioned , the person receiving such ...
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... give or make : provided always , that it shall not be lawful for any officer or servant of the post office to interfere with or give orders to the engineer or other person having the charge of any engine upon any railway along which ...
... give or make : provided always , that it shall not be lawful for any officer or servant of the post office to interfere with or give orders to the engineer or other person having the charge of any engine upon any railway along which ...
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... give security by bond . 13. And be it enacted , that it shall be lawful for the post- master - general , if he shall so think fit , to require the company of proprietors of any railway already made or in progress or to be hereafter made ...
... give security by bond . 13. And be it enacted , that it shall be lawful for the post- master - general , if he shall so think fit , to require the company of proprietors of any railway already made or in progress or to be hereafter made ...
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... give or renew such security as aforesaid , after the expiration of the said one calendar month . Under this section , a railway company was ordered to execute a bond without any proviso protecting them in case of being prevented ...
... give or renew such security as aforesaid , after the expiration of the said one calendar month . Under this section , a railway company was ordered to execute a bond without any proviso protecting them in case of being prevented ...
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Page 705 - 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," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 697 - Affidavits shall be confined to such facts as the witness is able of his own knowledge to prove, except on interlocutory motions, on which statements as to his belief, with the grounds thereof, may be admitted.
Page 339 - ... then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 488 - All rates to be under their seal of office direct, no rate for the relief of the poor made on the in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto ; that is to say, of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants...
Page 297 - J., observed that in order for it to apply "there must be reasonable evidence of negligence, but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen, if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendants, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 106 - ... shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and in case of an equal division of votes, the chairman shall have a casting vote, in addition to his vote as a member of the committee.
Page 753 - ... an employee, or his legal representative, shall not be entitled under this article to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any case where such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the injury and failed, within a reasonable time, to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer...
Page 698 - In all cases in which any particular number of days, not expressed to be clear days, is prescribed by the rules or practice of the courts, the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day, and inclusively of the last day...
Page 317 - If, before the matters so referred shall be determined, any arbitrator, appointed by either party, die, or become incapable to act, the party by whom such arbitrator was appointed, may nominate and appoint, in writing, some other person to act in his place ; and if, for the space of seven days after notice, in writing, from the other party for that purpose, he fail to do so, the remaining, or other arbitrator, may proceed ex parte. And every arbitrator, so...
Page 675 - 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...