The Cabinet Lawyer: A Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal and Constitutional |
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... taken to incor- porate in the text , with as much accuracy and minuteness as circumstances would admit of , the numerous changes that have been made in the Law since the publication of the last edition . The Editor desires to call ...
... taken to incor- porate in the text , with as much accuracy and minuteness as circumstances would admit of , the numerous changes that have been made in the Law since the publication of the last edition . The Editor desires to call ...
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... taken by the chairman of ways and means . In the committee the bill is discussed clause by clause , amendments made , the blanks filled up , and sometimes the bill entirely new - modelled . When the opinion of the house has been taken ...
... taken by the chairman of ways and means . In the committee the bill is discussed clause by clause , amendments made , the blanks filled up , and sometimes the bill entirely new - modelled . When the opinion of the house has been taken ...
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... taken to mean the marriage of any person being married to another during the life of the former husband or wife , whether the second marriage shall have taken place within the dominions of her Majesty or elsewhere . By s . 28 , upon the ...
... taken to mean the marriage of any person being married to another during the life of the former husband or wife , whether the second marriage shall have taken place within the dominions of her Majesty or elsewhere . By s . 28 , upon the ...
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... taken before any judge , or person lawfully authorized to adminis- ter oaths , and in foreign ports before her Majesty's consul or vice- consul . In the examination of witnesses important changes were intro- duced . The previous mode of ...
... taken before any judge , or person lawfully authorized to adminis- ter oaths , and in foreign ports before her Majesty's consul or vice- consul . In the examination of witnesses important changes were intro- duced . The previous mode of ...
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... taken , the court may give special directions as to the mode of taking it . In administration suits the proceeding was much simplified , pro- vision being made that a creditor , or legatee , or one of the next of kin , may summon an ...
... taken , the court may give special directions as to the mode of taking it . In administration suits the proceeding was much simplified , pro- vision being made that a creditor , or legatee , or one of the next of kin , may summon an ...
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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...