Reports of New Magistrates' Cases Argued and Determined in All the Courts of Common Law at Westminster ... 1844-[1851].Great Britain. Courts, Sir Adam Bittleston, Adam Henry Bittleston, Edward Wise, Paul Parnell, Jelinger Cookson Symons Law times office, 1846 - Justices of the peace |
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... received , and not taking a warrant ; but the public inconvenience would be much greater if , in every case , the officers were obliged to prove knowledge . They would be very seldom able to do so . The legislature has made a stringent ...
... received , and not taking a warrant ; but the public inconvenience would be much greater if , in every case , the officers were obliged to prove knowledge . They would be very seldom able to do so . The legislature has made a stringent ...
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... received a remission thereof from the Crown , or shall have suffered the imprisonment awarded for non - payment thereof or the imprison- ment adjudged in the first instance , or shall have been discharged from his conviction in the ...
... received a remission thereof from the Crown , or shall have suffered the imprisonment awarded for non - payment thereof or the imprison- ment adjudged in the first instance , or shall have been discharged from his conviction in the ...
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... received the complaint and issued the summons ; he therefore had possession of the case , and , as the plaintiff appeared in obedience to the summons , no other magistrate had juris- diction over the matter . It is true that the 66th ...
... received the complaint and issued the summons ; he therefore had possession of the case , and , as the plaintiff appeared in obedience to the summons , no other magistrate had juris- diction over the matter . It is true that the 66th ...
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... received a satisfactory answer at the bar . The objection was founded on the notion that the justices had all their power to hear the complaint under the 58th section , and that , therefore , this was a special power , and had not been ...
... received a satisfactory answer at the bar . The objection was founded on the notion that the justices had all their power to hear the complaint under the 58th section , and that , therefore , this was a special power , and had not been ...
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... received a lunatic under them , liable to indictment under s . 48 , and that the common law right to restrain a lunatic is not affected by the statute . The Court has no power to award costs to the person making the return to the habeas ...
... received a lunatic under them , liable to indictment under s . 48 , and that the common law right to restrain a lunatic is not affected by the statute . The Court has no power to award costs to the person making the return to the habeas ...
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9 Vict Act of Parliament admissible affidavits aforesaid appellant parish applied appointment Beccles Bethlehem Hospital borough certiorari chargeable Chipstable church church-rate churchwardens churchwardens and overseers clause COLERIDGE commissioners conviction costs Court of Quarter COURT OF QUEEN'S Crondall decision defendant duly enacted ERLE evidence examination fact footway gaol given grounds of appeal guardians Hartpury held hospital indenture inhabit Joseph Coates judgment jurisdiction justices land Little Marlow LORD DENMAN lunatic magistrates mandamus Mendham Michaelmas notice of appeal objection offence opinion order of removal order of Sessions Papcastle parish parish of St parish officers party PATTESON pauper payment peace person plaintiff prisoner proceedings Quarter Sessions quashed QUEEN'S BENCH question rateable refused relief relieving officer rent repair respondents settlement shew cause spirits of nitre statute sufficient therein thereof township trial vestry warrant Whitehaven WIGHTMAN Wooburn words writ
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Page 331 - King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the. Poor...
Page 38 - Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy...
Page 120 - Such, then, being the law of the land, it follows, as a necessary consequence, that the repair of the, fabric of the church is a duty which the parishioners are compellable to perform, not a mere voluntary act, which they may perform or decline at their own discretion ; that the law is imperative upon them, absolutely that they do repair the church...
Page 174 - ... of an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the further Amend merit of the Laws relating to the Poor in England...
Page 262 - The principle to be collected from all the cases on the subject is, that if the party rated have the use of the building or other subject of the rate as a mere servant of the Crown, or of any public body, or in any other respect for the mere exercise of public duty therein, and have no beneficial occupation of or emolument resulting from it in any personal and private respect, then he is not rateable.
Page 36 - These are, therefore, in her Majesty's name, to require you, the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the said parish of St.
Page 132 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 331 - Commissioners, shall not think it necessary or proper to direct the same to be otherwise made, such allotments shall be made to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor for the time being of the parish...
Page 94 - ... the overseers or guardians of the parish appealing against such order, or any three or more of such guardians, shall, with such notice, or fourteen days at least heforc the first day of the sessions at which such appeal is intended to be tried...
Page 116 - Whenever electors are present and do not vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do.