The Cabinet Lawyer: A Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal and Constitutional |
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... petition may issue against him , and persons acting under it proceed thereon in like manner as against any other bankrupt . Thus much for the parliament in its aggregate legislative capacity ; it will next be proper to speak more ...
... petition may issue against him , and persons acting under it proceed thereon in like manner as against any other bankrupt . Thus much for the parliament in its aggregate legislative capacity ; it will next be proper to speak more ...
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... petition the court of Chancery , where the lord chancellor will administer right as a matter of grace , and not of compulsion . But in any petition of right or claim against the crown , the procedure is now prescribed by 23 & 24 V. c ...
... petition the court of Chancery , where the lord chancellor will administer right as a matter of grace , and not of compulsion . But in any petition of right or claim against the crown , the procedure is now prescribed by 23 & 24 V. c ...
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... Petitions Act of 1848 , by providing that if any select committee appointed under that act have occasion to apply or report to the house , and the house be adjourned for more than twenty - four hours , such committee to adjourn to the ...
... Petitions Act of 1848 , by providing that if any select committee appointed under that act have occasion to apply or report to the house , and the house be adjourned for more than twenty - four hours , such committee to adjourn to the ...
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... petition is presented by a member , which is either referred to a committee to examine the matter , or , on the petition itself , if not opposed , leave is given to bring in a bill . If the matter is of 28 HOUSE OF COMMONS . Mode of ...
... petition is presented by a member , which is either referred to a committee to examine the matter , or , on the petition itself , if not opposed , leave is given to bring in a bill . If the matter is of 28 HOUSE OF COMMONS . Mode of ...
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... petition , on the motion of a member . The hil is drawn out on paper , with a number of blanks and spaces for insertions and alterations . It is read a first time , and , some little time after , a second . After each reading , the ...
... petition , on the motion of a member . The hil is drawn out on paper , with a number of blanks and spaces for insertions and alterations . It is read a first time , and , some little time after , a second . After each reading , the ...
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Popular passages
Page 666 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 543 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 77 - Viet. c. 99. s. 2. enacts that, " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any Court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, the parties thereto, and the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other proceeding...
Page 81 - Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony ; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
Page 503 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...
Page 460 - ... at the time of making the settlement able to pay all his debts without the aid of the property comprised in the settlement, and that the interest of the settlor in such property had passed to the trustee of such settlement on the execution thereof.
Page 499 - Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Page 15 - ... offer, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve hi parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election.
Page 47 - Either party may call upon the other party to admit any document, saving all just exceptions; and in case of refusal or neglect to admit...