The Cabinet Lawyer: A Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal and ConstitutionalLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1871 - 879 pages |
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... whole of the United Kingdom , and all its colonies and foreign possessions . It has sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making of laws . It can regulate and new - model the succession to the crown , as was done in the reigns ...
... whole of the United Kingdom , and all its colonies and foreign possessions . It has sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making of laws . It can regulate and new - model the succession to the crown , as was done in the reigns ...
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... whole or part any expenses incurred for any meat , drink , or entertainment to any person , to induence his vote . Penalty on candidate so treating , to any one who shall sue , £ 50 for every offence , and the vote influenced null and ...
... whole or part any expenses incurred for any meat , drink , or entertainment to any person , to induence his vote . Penalty on candidate so treating , to any one who shall sue , £ 50 for every offence , and the vote influenced null and ...
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... whole as first fee and further com- mission from each candidate . A further effort was made in 1863 to avert corrupt pracctices at elections , by 26 V. c . 22. By s . 2 , except in respect of personal expenses , no payment or advance ...
... whole as first fee and further com- mission from each candidate . A further effort was made in 1863 to avert corrupt pracctices at elections , by 26 V. c . 22. By s . 2 , except in respect of personal expenses , no payment or advance ...
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... whole house . A committee of the whole house is composed of every member , and to form it , the speaker quits the chair , and may give his opinion as a private member ; another member being appointed chairman , or the chair is taken by ...
... whole house . A committee of the whole house is composed of every member , and to form it , the speaker quits the chair , and may give his opinion as a private member ; another member being appointed chairman , or the chair is taken by ...
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... whole house , which may be for the special consideration of certain resolutions concerning which some doubt exists ; or the house resolves itself into such committee to consider the details of a bill , the principle of which may be dis ...
... whole house , which may be for the special consideration of certain resolutions concerning which some doubt exists ; or the house resolves itself into such committee to consider the details of a bill , the principle of which may be dis ...
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Popular passages
Page 668 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 545 - 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 79 - Viet. c. 99. s. 2. enacts that, " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any Court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, the parties thereto, and the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other proceeding...
Page 83 - Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony ; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
Page 505 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...
Page 462 - ... at the time of making the settlement able to pay all his debts without the aid of the property comprised in the settlement, and that the interest of the settlor in such property had passed to the trustee of such settlement on the execution thereof.
Page 501 - Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Page 17 - ... offer, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve hi parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election.
Page 49 - Either party may call upon the other party to admit any document, saving all just exceptions; and in case of refusal or neglect to admit...