The Statutes: 6 & 7 Victoria to 9 & 10 Victoria

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George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1876

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Page 732 - ... without having previously paid his fare, and with intent to avoid payment 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 582 - Any Contract which if made between private Persons would be by Law required to be in Writing, and...
Page 158 - Trial to be had thereupon ; and no Plaintiff shall recover in any such Action if Tender of sufficient Amends shall have been made before such Action brought, or if a sufficient Sum of Money shall have been paid into Court after such Action brought, by or on behalf of the Defendant...
Page 801 - England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills, or notes, payable at demand or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 576 - ... and for other purposes as would have been conferred by shares of equal amount in the capital of the company; but so that none of such privileges or advantages except the participation in the dividends and profits of the company shall be conferred by any such aliquot part of consolidated stock as would not if existing in shares have conferred such privileges or advantages. Increase in Capital. (26.) The directors may with the sanction of a special resolution...
Page 8 - January 5 then last past, and the overseers shall keep the said list, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon, and four of the clock in the afternoon...
Page 738 - I, AB , do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will faithfully and honestly, and to the best of my skill and ability, hear and determine the matters referred to me under the provisions of trie-Act.
Page 737 - If, before the matters so referred shall be determined, any arbitrator, appointed by either party, die, or become incapable to act, the party by whom such arbitrator was appointed, may nominate and appoint, in writing, some other person to act in his place ; and if, for the space of seven days after notice, in writing, from the other party for that purpose, he fail to do so, the remaining, or other arbitrator, may proceed ex parte. And every arbitrator, so...
Page 793 - At the quarter sessions for which such notice shall be given the court shall proceed to hear and determine the appeal in a summary way, or they may, if they think fit, adjourn it to the following sessions ; and upon the hearing of such appeal the court may, if they think fit, mitigate any penalty or forfeiture, or they may confirm or quash the adjudication, and order any money paid by the appellant...
Page 757 - ... shall mean the railway and works, of whatever description, by the special act authorized to be executed. III. The following words and expressions, both in this and the special act, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...

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