Magistrate's Hand-book: Observations Upon the Duties of Magistrates, Compiled by Desire of the Justices of the Peace of the United Counties of York and Peel in Session, Intended to be Brief and Succinct ...

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Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1860 - 82 pages

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Page 81 - And, for the protection of persons acting in the execution of this act, be it enacted, that all actions and prosecutions to be commenced against any person for any thing done in pursuance of this act shall be laid and tried in the county where the fact was committed, and shall be commenced within six calendar months after the fact committed, and not otherwise ; and notice in writing of such action, and of the cause thereof, shall be given to the defendant one calendar month at least before the commencement...
Page 15 - ... aiding or assisting therein, shall be put, placed or kept in any house, barn, stable, out-house, yard, close or place locked up, fastened or otherwise secured, so as to prevent such goods or chattels from being taken and seized as a distress for arrears of rent, it shall...
Page 16 - ... distrained on, or from the landlord, or from any other person whatsoever, any other or more costs and charges for and in respect of such distress, or any matter or thing done therein...
Page 22 - 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 68 - That if any person shall be discovered and apprehended under circumstances that denote a derangement of mind, and a purpose of committing some crime, for which, if committed, such person would be liable to be indicted...
Page 79 - ... named in such summons, and if he shall not appear accordingly, then (upon proof of the due service of the summons upon such person, by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode) the justice may either proceed to hear and determine the case...
Page 22 - A felonious taking of money or goods, to any value, from the person of another or in his presence, against his will, by violence or putting him in fear.
Page 67 - Court, before whom such trial shall be had, shall order such person to be kept in strict custody, in such place and in such manner as to the Court shall seem fit, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Page 77 - Day to sell or publicly shew forth, or expose, or offer for sale, or to purchase, any goods, chattels, or other personal property, or any real estate whatsoever, or to do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of his ordinary calling, (conveying Travellers or Her Majesty's Mail by land, or by water, selling Drugs and Medicines, and other works of necessity, and works of charity, only excepted.) — 8 V., c.
Page 60 - The authority of a justice of the peace to require, upon due complaint made to him in his judicial character, sureties for the keeping of the peace, and to commit a person to prison for want of such sureties, is not nor could be denied...

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