Statutes at Large ...: (43 v.) ... From Magna charta to 1800

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Page 203 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 170 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 221 - ... 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...
Page 282 - Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That...
Page 269 - 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 175 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Page 305 - ... shall be, and are hereby declared to be, null and void, and of no force or effect whatsoever.
Page 112 - ... may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon; and if the...
Page 60 - Indies, or any indorsement or assignment thereon, or on any bond or obligation under the common seal of the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery...

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