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... prisoner , for making the lord's eldest son a knight , and for marrying his daughter . These were the only aids which could be legally demanded , but they were often demanded for a fourth purpose , viz . , for paying the lord's debts ...
... prisoner , for making the lord's eldest son a knight , and for marrying his daughter . These were the only aids which could be legally demanded , but they were often demanded for a fourth purpose , viz . , for paying the lord's debts ...
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... Prisons . VII . Of the Laws relating to Highways . IX . Of the Laws relating to the Sanitary Condition of the - People . X. - Of the Laws relating to Public Conveyances . " " 99 XI . Of the Laws relating to the Press . 99 XII . Of the ...
... Prisons . VII . Of the Laws relating to Highways . IX . Of the Laws relating to the Sanitary Condition of the - People . X. - Of the Laws relating to Public Conveyances . " " 99 XI . Of the Laws relating to the Press . 99 XII . Of the ...
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... prisoner is kept in custody at the Crown's pleasure . ( See particularly hereon , 39 & 40 Geo . III . c . 94 , and 27 & 28 Vict . c . 29 , p . 26. ) It is often difficult to determine whether a man is altogether or only partially insane ...
... prisoner is kept in custody at the Crown's pleasure . ( See particularly hereon , 39 & 40 Geo . III . c . 94 , and 27 & 28 Vict . c . 29 , p . 26. ) It is often difficult to determine whether a man is altogether or only partially insane ...
Page 329
... prisoner has been committed to gaol , or for which arrested . Remarks . To use threatening words to a judge is high misprision and punish- able with fine , imprisonment and corporal punishment . Note carefully what places were formerly ...
... prisoner has been committed to gaol , or for which arrested . Remarks . To use threatening words to a judge is high misprision and punish- able with fine , imprisonment and corporal punishment . Note carefully what places were formerly ...
Page 330
... prisoner guilty of the prison breach . ( i ) If he is in prison for treason or felony , P. S. 7-5 years , or usual ... prisoners committed for or convicted of murder ; ( ii ) prisoners sentenced to penal servitude ; ( iii ) prisoners of ...
... prisoner guilty of the prison breach . ( i ) If he is in prison for treason or felony , P. S. 7-5 years , or usual ... prisoners committed for or convicted of murder ; ( ii ) prisoners sentenced to penal servitude ; ( iii ) prisoners of ...
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Page 374 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 234 - Majesty's high court of justice shall be constituted as follows: — The first judges thereof shall be the lord chancellor, the lord chief justice of England, the master of the rolls, the lord chief justice of the common pleas, the lord chief baron...
Page 32 - In any question between husband and wife as to the title to or possession of property, either party, or any such bank, corporation, company, public body, or society as aforesaid in whose books any stocks, funds, or shares of either party are standing, may apply by summons or otherwise in a summary way to any judge of the High Court of Justice...
Page 374 - Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus, nee super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae.
Page 83 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 14 - ... to make allowances to and arrangements with tenants and others, and to determine tenancies, and to accept surrenders of leases and tenancies, and generally to deal with, the land in a proper and due course of management ; but so that, where the infant is impeachable for waste, the trustees shall not commit waste, and shall cut timber on the same terms only, and subject to the same restrictions, on and subject to which the infant could, if of full age, cut the same.
Page 252 - One reason for which may be this: that the inferior hath no kind of property in the company, care, or assistance of the superior, as the superior is held to have in those of the inferior; and therefore the inferior can suffer no loss or injury.
Page 54 - ... next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood, and his issue, where the common ancestor shall be a male, and next after the common ancestor where such common ancestor shall be a female, so that the brother of the half blood on the part of the father shall inherit next after the sisters of the whole blood on the part of the father and their issue, and the brother of the half blood on the part of the mother shall inherit next after the mother.
Page 21 - On the appointment of a new trustee for the whole or any part of trust property, (a.) the number of trustees may be increased ; and (b.) a separate set of trustees may be appointed for any part of the trust property held on trusts distinct from those relating to any other part or parts of the trust property, notwithstanding that no new trustees or trustee are or is to be appointed for other parts of the trust property, and any existing trustee may be appointed.
Page 374 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR BE DISSEISED OF HIS FREEHOLD, OR LIBERTIES, OR FREE CUSTOMS, OR BE OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANY OTHERWISE DESTROYED ; NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND. WE WILL SELL TO NO MAN, WE WILL NOT DENY OR DELAY TO ANY MAN, JUSTICE OR RIGHT.* " It is obvious,