Laws of BarbadosBarclay & Fraser, printers to the Legislature, 1884 |
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31st December Act annexed Act to amend aforesaid Amendment Act appointed authority bodies politic borrowed Central Almshouse certificate City of Bridgetown claim Clerk Colonial Commissioners of Roads Company Court of Common debt deemed expedient election enacted entitled Executive Committee fee tail garnishee Governor Governor-in-Council Governor-in-Executive Committee granted HEREAS hereinafter hundred and eighty hundred pounds inserted Island issued judgment judgment debtor keeper land LAWS OF BARBADOS Lazaretto Legislature liable members to serve ment mentioned notice oath offence omitted ounces paid parish of Saint Paro Parochial Treasurer payment penalty petition Police Magistrate politic or corporate Preamble principal money named Provost Marshal public treasury purpose qualification Queen's College respect revising barrister Saint James Saint Lucy Saint Michael Saint Peter schedule seaman seamen's lodging house SESSION sheriff or sub-sheriff Short title sum or sums thereof thousand eight hundred tion tramway twenty vestry vote voters writ
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Page 7 - ... the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 36 - Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject ; and a title to real and personal property of every description" may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject...
Page 201 - An Act to Repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits,' and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 6 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who...
Page 60 - ... thereof, or if any person, having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in any such carriage beyond such distance, without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof...
Page 48 - ... and shall make full compensation to all parties for any loss or damage which they may sustain by reason of any interference with such property, or with the private service pipes of any person supplied by any such company or person with water or gas : 5.
Page 9 - Matter ; that is to say. Words denoting the Singular Number are to be understood to apply also to a Plurality of Persons or Things ; and Words denoting the Masculine Gender are to be understood to apply also to Persons of the Feminine Gender ; and the Word " Person" shall apply to Bodies Politic and Corporate ; and the Word " Parent " shall include Father and Mother, and Grandfather and Grandmother, and Stepfather and Stepmother ; and the Word " Child " shall include Son and Daughter, and Grandson...
Page 8 - ... such case such action may be brought by and in the name or names of all or any of the persons (if more than one) for whose benefit such action would have been, if it had been brought by and in the name of such executor or administrator...
Page 230 - ... an officer of the Court, or such other person as the Court or Judge shall appoint ; and the Court or Judge may make an order for the examination of such judgment debtor, and for the production of any books or documents.
Page 76 - The directors may. before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the company such sum as they think proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalising dividends, or for repairing or maintaining the works connected with the business of the company...