Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Mode of Taking Evidence in Chancery, and Its Effects |
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Page 4 - ... therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment. And we hereby command all and singular our justices of the peace, sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs, constables, officers, ministers, and all other our loving subjects whatsoever, as well within liberties as without, that they be assistant to you and each of you in the execution of these presents.
Page 3 - We do, by these presents, give and grant to you, or any three or more of you, full power and authority to call before you, or any three or more of you, such persons as you shall judge necessary, by whom you may be the better informed of the truth in the premises...
Page 4 - We do by these Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment : And...
Page 6 - Presents give and grant unto you, or any three or more of you, full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Our Commission ; and...
Page 23 - ... shall be conducted as nearly as may be in the mode now in use in courts of common law with respect to a...
Page 3 - CAIRNS, one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, the...
Page 5 - Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the...
Page 49 - Every affidavit shall be drawn up in the first person, and shall be divided into paragraphs, and every paragraph shall be numbered consecutively, and as nearly as may be shall be confined to a distinct portion of the subject.
Page 6 - ... better informed of the truth in the premises ; and to inquire of the premises, and every part thereof, by all other lawful ways and means whatso.
Page 6 - Our further will and pleasure is that you do, within six months after the date of this Our Commission, or sooner if the same can conveniently be done, (using all diligence...