Encyclopaedia of the laws of England: with forms and precedents by the most eminent legal authoritiesAlexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1906 |
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... Parliament ( 51 & 52 Vict . c . 41 , s . 83 ( 13 ) ) . The clerk of the peace has to receive inclosure awards ( see ... parliamentary and local government electors prepared at the annual Revision Court , and to print and distribute them ...
... Parliament ( 51 & 52 Vict . c . 41 , s . 83 ( 13 ) ) . The clerk of the peace has to receive inclosure awards ( see ... parliamentary and local government electors prepared at the annual Revision Court , and to print and distribute them ...
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... Parliament lost the principal privileges of peers , i.e. the right to judge and to be judged by their fellows . The bishops in any judicial proceedings taken against them always abstained from claiming privilege of peerage ; they simply ...
... Parliament lost the principal privileges of peers , i.e. the right to judge and to be judged by their fellows . The bishops in any judicial proceedings taken against them always abstained from claiming privilege of peerage ; they simply ...
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... Parliament to represent their order in the House of Lords of the Parliament of Great Britain . After the Union , for all future creations , the peerage of England became the peerage of Great Britain . In 1800 Ireland was united to Great ...
... Parliament to represent their order in the House of Lords of the Parliament of Great Britain . After the Union , for all future creations , the peerage of England became the peerage of Great Britain . In 1800 Ireland was united to Great ...
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... Parliament . In course of time , as the idea of burden in attending Parliament faded away , the personal writ of summons began to be regarded as a distinction , and therefore was eagerly sought after . The descent of land had for some ...
... Parliament . In course of time , as the idea of burden in attending Parliament faded away , the personal writ of summons began to be regarded as a distinction , and therefore was eagerly sought after . The descent of land had for some ...
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... Parliament . Subsequently creations were made only at long intervals , that of Winchester ( 1571 ) being the only one ( of old date ) under which an English marquis at present sits in the House of Lords . The origin of the title is ...
... Parliament . Subsequently creations were made only at long intervals , that of Winchester ( 1571 ) being the only one ( of old date ) under which an English marquis at present sits in the House of Lords . The origin of the title is ...
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Page 165 - The Court or a Judge may, at any stage of the proceedings, either upon or without the application of either party, and on such terms as may appear to the Court or a Judge...
Page 518 - Where a mercantile agent is, with the consent of the owner, in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods any sale, pledge or other disposition of the goods made by him, when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be as valid as if he were expressly authorized by the owner of the goods to make the same...
Page 165 - Every pleading shall contain, and contain only, a statement in a summary form of the material facts on which the party pleading relies for his claim or defence, as the case may be, but not the evidence by which they are to be proved, and shall, when necessary, be divided into paragraphs, numbered consecutively.
Page 521 - procuration" operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is bound only in case the agent in so signing acted within the actual limits of his authority.
Page 477 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 227 - That the Father and Grandfather, and the Mother and Grandmother, and the Children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent Person or other poor Person not able to work, being of a sufficient Ability, shall, at their own Charges, relieve and maintain every such poor Person...
Page 524 - In the same transaction with respect to which a question of notice to the purchaser arises, it has come to the knowledge of his counsel, as such, or of his solicitor, or other agent, as such, or would have come to the knowledge of his solicitor, or other agent...
Page 469 - But where the instrument is in the hands of a holder in due course, a valid delivery thereof by all parties prior to him so as to make them liable to him is conclusively presumed.
Page 246 - ... before a justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law...
Page 608 - ... shall as regards personal estate be held to be well executed for the purpose of being admitted in England and Ireland to probate, and in. Scotland to confirmation, if the same be made according to the forms required either by the law of the place where the same was made...