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... adjudged by a court composed of less than two Justices . Moreover the power of Justices , when sitting otherwise than in a petty sessional court - house , is limited to the infliction of imprison- ment for not exceeding fourteen days ...
... adjudged by a court composed of less than two Justices . Moreover the power of Justices , when sitting otherwise than in a petty sessional court - house , is limited to the infliction of imprison- ment for not exceeding fourteen days ...
Page 16
... adjudge imprisonment or to impose a fine , they may , not- withstanding any enactment to the contrary , adjudge imprisonment without hard labour , and reduce the prescribed period ; and , in the case of a first offence , reduce the ...
... adjudge imprisonment or to impose a fine , they may , not- withstanding any enactment to the contrary , adjudge imprisonment without hard labour , and reduce the prescribed period ; and , in the case of a first offence , reduce the ...
Page 18
... adjudged , with costs , the Justice may commit the defendant to the House of Correction for a term the duration of which , as we shall elsewhere see , may be measured by the extent of the deficiency . We spoke a short time since of a ...
... adjudged , with costs , the Justice may commit the defendant to the House of Correction for a term the duration of which , as we shall elsewhere see , may be measured by the extent of the deficiency . We spoke a short time since of a ...
Page 21
... adjudged to pay a penalty not exceeding £ 5 ( and not relating to Inland Revenue ) might be imprisoned upon non - payment , without distress , for a term calculated according to the amount imposed , and for no longer period , anything ...
... adjudged to pay a penalty not exceeding £ 5 ( and not relating to Inland Revenue ) might be imprisoned upon non - payment , without distress , for a term calculated according to the amount imposed , and for no longer period , anything ...
Page 22
... adjudged and unpaid fine . The latter says nothing of the kind . It does not , like the Act which it repeals , confer the power of directing imprison- ment in lieu of distress . It merely says that if imprisonment be imposed by statute ...
... adjudged and unpaid fine . The latter says nothing of the kind . It does not , like the Act which it repeals , confer the power of directing imprison- ment in lieu of distress . It merely says that if imprisonment be imposed by statute ...
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Popular passages
Page 28 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge ? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence...
Page 431 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 164 - Chattel, Money, or valuable Security which shall be delivered to or received or taken into Possession by him for or in the Name or on the Account of his Master or Employer...
Page 15 - Bedford's Final Examination Digest : containing a Digest of the Final Examination Questions in matters of Law and Procedure determined by the Chancery, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer Divisions of the High Court of Justice, and on the Law of Real and Personal Property and the Practice of Conveyancing, with the Answers. 8vo. 1879. 16».
Page 14 - Journal. Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence. — A Manual of Equity Jurisprudence for Practitioners and Students, founded on the Works of Story, Spence, and other writers, and on more than, a thousand subsequent cases, comprising the Fundamental Principles and the points of Equity usually occurring in General Practice. By JOSIAH W. SMITH, BCL, QC Thirteenth Edition. 12mo. 1880. 12».
Page 64 - ... that he had no reason to believe at the time when he sold it that the article was otherwise, and that he sold it in the same state as when he purchased it, he shall be discharged from the prosecution, but shall be liable to pay the costs incurred by the prosecutor, unless he shall have given due notice to him that he will rely on the above defence.
Page 367 - Where any person sustains any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers of this Act...
Page 6 - Ball's Short Digest of the Common Law; being the Principles of Torts and Contracts. Chiefly founded upon the works of Addison, with Illustrative Cases, for the use of Students. By W. EDMUND BALL, LL.B., late "Holt Scholar " of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law and Midland Circuit. Demy8vo. 1880. 16». " The principles of the law are very clearly and concisely stated. ' — Law Journal, Bullen and Leake.— Vide "Pleading.
Page 362 - ... for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and intended for the food of man...
Page 188 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.