Geschichte und heutige Gestalt der englischen Communalverfassung oder des Selfgovernment, 1. köide

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J. Springer, 1863 - 1398 pages

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Page 608 - 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 360 - I have ever used to set the last Judgment Day before mine eyes, and so to rule as I shall be judged to answer before a Higher Judge. To Whose Judgment Seat I do appeal, that never thought was cherished in my heart that tended not to my people's good.
Page 9 - Price 31*. 6d. ANCIENT LAWS AND INSTITUTES OF ENGLAND ; comprising Laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, from JEthelbirht to Cnut, with an English Translation of the Saxon ; the Laws called Edward the Confessor's ; the Laws of William the Conqueror, and those ascribed to Henry the First ; also, Monumenta...
Page 300 - Co. 62 b, 63 a), it is said, that the " inhabitants of a town, without any custom, may make ordinances or bye-laws for the reparation of the church or a highway, or of any such thing which is for the general good of the public ; and in such case the greater part shall bind the whole without any custom.
Page 439 - Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Kent, Lancaster, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Southampton, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York.
Page 466 - Highways," it was enacted that "the Constables and Churchwardens of every parish shall yearly, upon the Tuesday or Wednesday in Easter week, call together a number of parishioners, and shall then elect and choose two honest persons of the parish to be surveyors and orderers for one year of the works for amendment of the highways in their parish.
Page 360 - I have ever set the last Judgment Day before mine eyes, and so to rule as I shall be judged and answer before a higher Judge, to whose Judgment Seat I do appeal- in that never thought was cherished in my heart that tended not to my people's good.
Page 345 - that the court of wards and liveries, and all wardships, liveries, primer seisins, and ousterlemains, values and forfeitures of marriage, by reason of any tenure of the king or others, be totally taken away.
Page 64 - Hear this, my lord : I will be faithful and loyal to you, and will bear to you faith for the tenements I hold of you ; and will loyally perform the customs and services which I owe to you, at the times assigned. So help me God and His saints.
Page 97 - ... quod si ipsi forisfacerent, et clamor vicinorum insurgeret de eis, ipsi haberent eos ad ; ' rectum in curia sua, si haberent sacham et socham, toi et theam, et infangeuethef.

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