The Magistrate's Pocket-book, Or, An Epitome of the Duties and Practice of a Justice of the Peace, Out of Sessions, Alphabetically Arranged: To which is Added, a Copious and General Index

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C. Hunter, 1825 - 446 pages

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Page 297 - Our sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King.
Page 382 - ... every person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person...
Page 382 - Majesty's' subjects ; every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon, not having any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good account of himself or herself...
Page 298 - subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of
Page 267 - A woman, having a settlement, married a man with none ; The question was, he being dead, if that she had was gone. Quoth Sir John Pratt : ' Her settlement suspended did remain, Living the husband ; but, him dead, it doth revive again.
Page 343 - ... refusing to comply with any rules, orders, resolutions, or regulations, made to obtain an advance or to reduce the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours of working, or to decrease or alter the quantity of work, or to regulate the mode of carrying on any manufacture, trade or business, or the management thereof...
Page 223 - Offender, and to convey him or cause him to be conveyed as soon as conveniently may be before...
Page 392 - Gallon, and shall be and is hereby declared to be the Unit and only Standard Measure of Capacity., from which all other Measures of Capacity to be used, as well for Wine, Beer, Ale, Spirits and all Sorts of Liquids, as for dry Goods not measured by Heap Measure, shall be derived, computed and ascertained ; and...
Page 347 - In all such cases of dispute as aforesaid, as in all other cases, if the parties mutually agree that the matter in dispute shall be arbitrated and determined in a mode different from the one hereby prescribed...
Page 167 - ... or so as in any manner to obstruct or impede the passage of any person, or any horse beast or carriage travelling along such turnpike road ; or if any...

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