A Popular Dictionary of Parochial Law & Taxation: And of the Duties of Parish Offficers Alphabetically Arranged : Comprising Assessed Taxes; Poor and Church Rares; Highway Rates;... and Generally All Information Likely to be Serviceable to Parochial Authorities Or Sought for by Parishioners and Rate-payers

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Whittaker & Company, 1834 - Corporations, Religious - 421 pages

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Page 157 - ... in order that such person may be secured until he can be brought before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law...
Page 168 - ... conditioned personally to appear at the said sessions, and to try such appeal and to abide the judgment of the court thereupon, and to pay such costs as shall be by the court awarded...
Page 241 - That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this Act...
Page 357 - ... (by taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal-mines, or saleable underwoods in the said parish, in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit...
Page 260 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 161 - District, nor shall, by Word, Message, Writing, or in any other Manner, endeavour to persuade any Elector to give, or dissuade any Elector from giving, his Vote for the Choice of any Person to be a Member to serve in Parliament...
Page 410 - ... list to contain a true and detailed account of the place where such estate or charitable foundation may be situate, or in what mode and security such bequest may be invested, specifying also the yearly rental of each, and the particular appropriation thereof, together with the names of the persons partaking of their benefit (except where such benefit shall be allotted to the poor of the parish generally), and to what amount in each case, and also stating the name and description of the persons...
Page viii - A writ of mandamus is, in general, a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature, within the king's dominions; requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty, and which the court of king's bench has previously determined, or at least supposes, to be consonant to right and justice.
Page 161 - ... if any person shall print or publish any such advertisement, in any of the above cases every such person shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds for every such offence, to any person who will sue for the same by action of debt, to be recovered with full costs of suit.
Page 315 - If the bishop hath no objections, but admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him, which is a kind of investiture of the spiritual part of the benefice : for by institution the care of the souls of the parish is committed to the charge of the clerk.

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