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Page 178 - Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows : Preliminary. 1. This act may be cited as the factory and workshop act, 1878.
Page 189 - England, by any metropolitan police magistrate or other stipendiary magistrate sitting alone at a police court or other appointed place, or by the Lord Mayor of the city of London, or any alderman of the said city sitting alone or with others at the Mansion House or Guildhall...
Page 192 - owner " shall mean the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the lands or premises in connection with which the said word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rackrent...
Page 183 - Any damage occasioned by the fire brigade in the due execution of their duties shall be deemed to be damage by fire within the meaning of any policy of insurance against fire.
Page 192 - Pancras, and St. Luke at Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, and for indemnifying, under certain Conditions, Builders and other Persons against the Penalties to which they are or may be liable for erecting Buildings within the limits aforesaid contrary to law...
Page 185 - ... the company shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such default continues...
Page 28 - Now, all men mourn for him, lovingly raise him Up from his life obscure, chronicle, praise him ; Tell his last act, done midst peril appalling, And the last word of cheer from his lips falling ; Follow in multitudes to his grave's portal ; Leave him there, buried in honor immortal.
Page 183 - YIELDING therefor, during the said term, the yearly rent of £ , clear of all deductions, by equal half-yearly payments on the day of and the day of in every year, the first of such payments to be made on the day of next.
Page 193 - ... of the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of King William the Fourth (chapter seventy-four) " for the abolition of fines and recoveries, " and for the substitution of more simple
Page 192 - Act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the Cities of London and Westminster and the liberties thereof, and other the parishes, precincts, and places within the weekly bills of mortality, the parishes of St.