General Railway Acts: A Collection of the Public General Acts for the Regulation of Railways : Including the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts, Complete. 1830-74. with a Copious Index

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Waterlow & Sons, 1875 - 689 pages
 

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Page 604 - 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 409 - England in the name and with the privity of the accountant general of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there...
Page 186 - ... passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances, and no reduction or advance in any such tolls shall be made either directly or indirectly in favour of or against any particular company or person traveling upon or using the railway.
Page 201 - Party making the same be deemed a Trespasser, on account of any Defect or Want of Form in the Summons, Conviction, Warrant, Distress, or other Proceeding relating thereto, nor shall such Party be deemed a Trespasser ab initio...
Page 71 - ... until such principal and interest, as the case may be, together with all costs, including the charges of receiving the...
Page 220 - Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him...
Page 125 - ... entered upon, together with interest thereon, at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, from the time of entering on such lands, until such purchase-money or compensation shall be paid...
Page 109 - All the costs of any such arbitration, and incident thereto, to be settled by the arbitrators, shall be borne by the promoters of the undertaking, unless the arbitrators shall award the same or a less sum than shall have been offered by the promoters of the undertaking, in which case each party shall bear his own costs incident to the arbitration, and the costs of the arbitrators shall be borne by the parties in equal proportions.
Page 115 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I will faithfully, impartially, and honestly, according to the best of my skill and ability, execute the duty of making the valuation hereby referred to me.
Page 147 - Notice in Writing of such Appeal, stating the Nature and Grounds thereof, be given to the Party against whom the Appeal shall be brought, nor unless the Appellant forthwith after such Notice enter into Recognizances, with Two sufficient Sureties, before a Justice, conditioned duly to prosecute such Appeal, and to abide the Order of the Court thereon.

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