An act for amending certain mile ways leading to Oxford ... and for other purposes

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Page 46 - Witnesses) to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months...
Page 76 - 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 36 - ... be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal or hands and seals of such Justice or Justices...
Page 77 - ... or discontinue his, her, or their action or suit after the defendant or defendants shall have appeared, or if upon demurrer judgment shall be given against the plaintiff...
Page 74 - ... for such justice, and he •is hereby authorized and required, by warrant under his hand and seal to cause...
Page 74 - ... common gaol or house of correction, there to remain without bail or mainprize...
Page 31 - ... materials for the same, which contract or contracts shall specify the several works to be done, and the prices to be paid for the same, and the time or times when the...
Page 81 - Under this head may also be classed an act to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers of an act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of his late Majesty...
Page 104 - Trusteesunless he shall be in his own right, or in the right of his wife, in the actual possession or receipt of the rents and profits of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the clear yearly value of...
Page 3 - An act for amending certain of the mileways leading to Oxford; for making a commodious entrance through the parish of Saint Clement ; for rebuilding or repairing Magdalen Bridge; for making commodious roads from the said bridge through the university and city and the avenues leading thereto ; for cleansing and lighting the streets, lanes, and places within the said university and city and the suburbs thereof, and the...

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