The Scots Law TimesC.E. Green & Son, Limited, 1894 - Law |
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Aberdeen alleged amount appear apply appointed argued averred Bill burgh Burgh Police Scotland C. S. Dickson charge claim clause Clerk Commissioners contract Counsel for Pursuer Court of Session creditors criminal damages death debt decree defender's Dundas Edinburgh election entitled evidence expenses Faculty of Advocates favour Glasgow Graham Murray granted Greenock ground Guthrie held House interdict interest interlocutor issue James James Collie Jameson John judge judgment jury Justice KINNEAR land lease liable LL.B Lord Advocate Lord Justice-Clerk Lord Low Lord Ordinary magistrates ment Messrs opinion paid parish parliamentary burgh parties payment person petition Petitioner Police Act police burghs present proof question raised an action rent respondent road rule S.S.C.-Counsel for Defender Scotland Scots Law Scottish sect settlement Sheriff Court Sheriff-Substitute Smith Solicitor statute Stormonth Darling Thomson tion Trayner trial trustees Vict W.S.-Counsel for Defender
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Page 490 - Where after the commencement of this Act any action, prosecution, or other proceeding is commenced in the United Kingdom against any person for any act done in pursuance, or execution, or intended execution of any Act of Parliament, or of any public duty or authority...
Page 187 - ... any injury caused by or arising from natural disease or weakness or exhaustion consequent upon disease...
Page 221 - To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration of the laws, Each of them is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 492 - The requisition for the extradition of an accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent authority of the State requiring the extradition, and by such evidence as, according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime had been committed there.
Page 492 - In the examinations which they have to make in accordance with the foregoing stipulations, the authorities of the State applied to shall admit as entirely valid evidence the sworn depositions or statements of witnesses taken in the other State, or copies thereof, and likewise the warrants and sentences issued therein...
Page 221 - ... 5. To prevent another from exercising a lawful trade or calling, or doing any other lawful act, by force, threats, intimidation, or by interfering or threatening to interfere with tools, implements, or property belonging to or used by another, or with the use or employment thereof; or 6.
Page 237 - 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 236 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as to render void or voidable any agreement or trust 4.
Page 248 - ... proved to have been previously convicted of an offence punishable with penal servitude or imprisonment, the court may, in addition to or in lieu of sentencing him according to law to any punishment, order that he be sent to a certified reformatory school, and be there detained for a period of not less than three and not more than five years, so, however, that the period is such as will in the opinion of the court expire at or before the time at which the offender will attain the age of nineteen...
Page 134 - Every person found drunk in any highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on any licensed premises...