A Treatise on the Law of Markets and Fairs with the Principal Statutes Relating Thereto

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Knight and Company, 1899 - 224 pages

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Page 169 - Act, 1845, with respect to the recovery of damages not specially provided for, and of penalties, and to the determination of any other matter referred to Justices...
Page 145 - ... by this or the Special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, vested in the company ; and, except where otherwise provided by this or the Special Act, the amount of such compensation shall be ascertained and determined in the manner provided by the said Lands...
Page 123 - Where goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction, the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods, or his personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them, whether by sale in market overt or otherwise.
Page 142 - prescribed," used in this Act in reference to any Matter herein stated, shall be construed to refer to such Matter as the same shall be prescribed or provided for in the special Act, and the Sentence in which such Word shall occur shall be construed as if, instead of the Word
Page 174 - ... and of the amount of every such penalty, and shall cause such particulars to be painted on a board, or printed upon paper and pasted thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal place of business of the company, and where any such penalties are of local application shall cause such boards to be affixed in some conspicuous place in the immediate neighbourhood to which such penalties are applicable or have reference ; and such particulars...
Page 142 - The following words and expressions, in both this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; (that is to say) — Words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number : Words importing the masculine gender shall include females : The word
Page 176 - Party making the same be deemed a Trespasser, on account of any Defect or Want of Form in the Summons', Conviction, Warrant, Distress, or other Proceeding relating thereto, nor shall such Party be deemed a Trespasser ab initio...
Page 176 - ... shall, in case of dispute, be determined by the justices by whom the party incurring such penalty shall have been convicted, and on nonpayment of such damages, on demand, the same shall be levied by distress, and such justices, or one of them, shall issue their or his warrant accordingly.
Page 143 - Courts at Westminster, and also the Court of Common Pleas of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and the Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham, and the several Judges thereof, in...
Page 145 - Act ; and the Company shall make, to the owners and occupiers of, and all other parties interested in any lands taken or used for the purposes of the railway or injuriously affected by the construction thereof, full compensation for the value of the lands so taken or used, and for all damage sustained by such owners...

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