 | Sir William Blackstone - Droit - 1791 - 516 pages
...members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the houfe; and then (or,otherwife, upon the mere petition) leave is given to bring in...matters the bill is brought in upon motion made to the houfe, without any petition at all. Formerly, all bills were drawn in the form of petitions, which... | |
 | Law - 1791 - 568 pages
...committee of members, who examine the matter alledged, and report it to the houfe ; and then (or otherwife upon the mere petition), leave is given to bring in...matters, the bill is brought in upon motion made to the houfe, without any petition at all. The perfon directed to bring in the bill prefents it in a competent... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the houfe; and then (or otherwife, upon the mere petition) leave is given to bring in...matters the bill is brought in upon motion made to the houfe, without any petition at all. Formerly, all bills were drawn in the form of petitions (59), which... | |
 | Jasper Adams, John Adams - 1793 - 358 pages
...committee of members, who examine the matter alledged, and accordingly report it to the houfe ; and then leave is given to bring in the bill. In public matters, the bill is brought in upon a motion made to the houfe, without any petition. This is read a firft time, and, at a convenient diftance,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly repoit it to the houle ; and then (or, otherwile, upon the mere, petition) leave is given to bring in...matters, the bill is brought in upon motion made to the houfe, without any petition at all. Formerly all bills were drawn in the form of petitions, •which... | |
 | William Guthrie, John Knox - Geography - 1801 - 1204 pages
...members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the houfe ; and then (or, otherwife, upon the mere petition) leave is given to bring in...matters the bill is brought in upon motion made to the houfe without any petition. (In the houfe of lords, if the bill begins there, it is, when of private... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...be in their nature disputed) is referred to a committee of members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the house ; and then...the bill. In public matters the bill is brought in \ipon motion made to the house, without any petition at all. Formerly, all bills were drawn in the... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...be in their nature disputed) is referred to a committee of members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the House ; and then...motion made to the House, without any petition at all. The persons directed to bring in the bill present it in a competent time to the House, drawn out on... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...facts of a disputable nature, is referred to a committee of members, who examine the matter alleged, and accordingly report it to the house; and then (or otherwise upon the mere petition), leave is siveu to bring in the bill. In public mattere, the bill is brought in upon motion made to the. house,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...committee of members, who examine the iflfttter alledged, attd accordingly report it to the hovrae ; and then (or 'otherwise upon the mere 'petition),...When the house has agreed or disagreed to the bill a* it comes from tire 'committee, and some-' times added new amendments of its 'own, the bill is ordered... | |
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... private nature, it is first necessary to prefer a petition, which must be presented by a member, and usually sets forth the grievance desired to be remedied. This petition (when founded on facts that may be in their nature disputed) is referred to... 
