The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...

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Joseph Bentham, 1766 - Law
 

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Page 91 - Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 323 - May it therefore pleafe your Majefty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the king's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, that...
Page 459 - Tenure whatever, for the unexpired Residue, whatever it may be, of any Term originally created for a Period of not less than...
Page 455 - Advertisements and Almanacks; and upon Licences for retailing Wine; and upon Coals exported to Foreign Parts ; and for applying, from a certain time, the Sums of Money arising from the Surplus of the Duties on Licences for retailing...
Page 439 - Act imposed, unless otherwise directed, shall be recovered before any two justices of the peace for the county, city, or place where the offence shall...
Page 480 - Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being...
Page 227 - establishing a regular method for the punctual, frequent and certain payment of their wages ; and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for the support of their wives and families; and for preventing frauds and abuses attending such payments'.
Page 139 - ... offender to the houfe of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for the fpace of one month. XXII. And be it enacted, That the faid deputy lieutenants, New lift...

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