Collieries and Colliers: A Handbook of the Law and Leading Cases Relating Thereto

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Longmans, Green, 1872 - Coal mines and mining - 432 pages

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Page 367 - An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 409 - Reservoirs, then and in every such Case and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful for the...
Page 297 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued...
Page 359 - Peace, 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 380 - ... for the time being in force in the mine, and all matters and things connected with or relating to the safety of the persons employed in or about the...
Page 325 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that this act shall not extend to subject any persons to punishment who shall meet together for the sole purpose of consulting upon and determining the rate of wages or prices which the persons present at such meeting, or any of them, shall...
Page 142 - Any seven or more persons, or, where the company to be formed will be a private company, any two or more persons, associated for any lawful purpose may, by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association and otherwise complying with the requirements of this Act in respect of registration, form an incorporated company, with or without limited liability.
Page 366 - ... and, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 24 - Except nevertheless all leases not exceeding the term of three years from the making thereof, whereupon the rent reserved to the landlord, during such term, shall amount unto two third parts at the least of the full improved value of the thing demised.
Page 343 - ... in such mine or such part thereof, or of any cause whatever, the mine or the said part is dangerous, every workman shall be withdrawn...

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