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... extended from time to time : that is to say , a summary remedy by taking the offending person before a justice of the peace - a corresponding remedy being also given to certain classes of servants for recovery of wages . Former ...
... extended from time to time : that is to say , a summary remedy by taking the offending person before a justice of the peace - a corresponding remedy being also given to certain classes of servants for recovery of wages . Former ...
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... extended to all claims for wages to any apprentice , artificer , labourer , servant or other person to the amount of 107. , enforceable by distress ; and , on the other hand , artificers , labourers and servants absenting themselves ...
... extended to all claims for wages to any apprentice , artificer , labourer , servant or other person to the amount of 107. , enforceable by distress ; and , on the other hand , artificers , labourers and servants absenting themselves ...
Page 12
... ( extended to some other trades by the 10 Geo . 4 ) . It so happens that all these statutes are put down in our Leading Treatises on Jus- tices , which Sheriff Tait of Edin- burgh published in the year 1828 as not being applicable to ...
... ( extended to some other trades by the 10 Geo . 4 ) . It so happens that all these statutes are put down in our Leading Treatises on Jus- tices , which Sheriff Tait of Edin- burgh published in the year 1828 as not being applicable to ...
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... extending to unliquidated as well as to liquidated damages . Although the committee shrank from recommending that defendants should be made competent witnesses , the suggestion to that effect made to the committee was adopted by the ...
... extending to unliquidated as well as to liquidated damages . Although the committee shrank from recommending that defendants should be made competent witnesses , the suggestion to that effect made to the committee was adopted by the ...
Page 64
... extended right to combine against their employers , especial care should be taken that an equal right be secured to those workmen who desire to keep aloof from the combination , to dispose of their labour with perfect freedom as they ...
... extended right to combine against their employers , especial care should be taken that an equal right be secured to those workmen who desire to keep aloof from the combination , to dispose of their labour with perfect freedom as they ...
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Page 273 - That if any Person shall wilfully or maliciously commit any Damage, Injury, or Spoil to or upon any Real or Personal Property whatsoever, either of a public or private Nature, for which no Remedy or Punishment is hereinbefore provided...
Page 193 - Where any person -wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Page 206 - ... remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid ; and any such investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy may be instituted, continued, or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture, or punishment may be imposed, as if the repealing Act had not been passed.
Page 38 - Any agreement between members of a trade union as such, concerning the conditions on which any members for the time being of such trade union shall or shall not sell their goods, transact business, employ or be employed.
Page 194 - ... (5) Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road, shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction, or on indictment as hereinafter mentioned, be liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Page 143 - ... either has, or has had since the date of the order, the means to pay the sum in respect of which he has made default, and has refused or neglected, or refuses or neglects, to pay the same...
Page 38 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Page 199 - borough " means any place for the time being subject to the Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales...
Page 196 - Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place; or 5.
Page 194 - ... knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to deprive the inhabitants of that city, borough, town, place, or part, wholly or to a great extent of their supply...