A treatise on the law of actions on statutes, remedial as well as penal

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1824 - 80 pages

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Page 214 - An act for exempting their majesties' protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws...
Page 314 - Act it is enacted, that it should and might be lawful to and for all Bodies ' Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, and all Trustees, Mortgagees. ' and Feoffees in Trust, Guardians of Infants, and Committees " of Lunatics and Idiots, Executors, and Administrators what...
Page 317 - Offenders to be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months, unless such Penalty and Forfeiture, and all reasonable Charges, shall be sooner fully paid and satisfied.
Page 213 - That if any Persons unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled together, to the Disturbance of the Public Peace, shall unlawfully, and with Force demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down any Church or Chapel, or any Building for Religious Worship certified and registered according to the Statute2 made in the First Year of the Reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, ... or any Dwelling-house, Barn, Stable or other Out-house, that then every such demolishing, or pulling...
Page 141 - Britain, without the express consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof first had and obtained in writing, signed by him, her, or them respectively, with his, her, or their own hand or hands, in the presence of, and attested by, two or more credible witnesses, then every such proprietor...
Page 101 - Whether the alteration be colourable or not? there must be such a similitude as to make it probable and reasonable to suppose that one is a transcript of the other, and nothing more than a transcript. So in the case of prints, no doubt different men may take engravings from the same picture. The same principle holds with regard to charts ; whoever has it in his intention to publish a chart may take advantage of all prior publications.
Page 126 - ... oscuro, or cause to be engraved, etched or worked any print taken from any picture, drawing, model or sculpture, either ancient or modern...
Page 315 - Act passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the second...
Page 317 - ... under his hand and seal, to cause such offender or offenders to be committed to the common gaol or house of correction of the...
Page 127 - ... oscuro, or otherwise or in any other manner copy, in the whole or in part, by varying, adding to, or diminishing from the main design, or shall print, reprint, or import for sale, or cause or procure to be printed, reprinted, or imported for sale, or shall publish, sell...

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