The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...

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Joseph Bentham, 1765 - Law
 

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Page 224 - 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 251 - ... may it therefore pleafe your Majefty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by...
Page 9 - Fart of Great Britain called England ; and for granting to his Majefty certain Duties upon Malt ', Mum, Cyder, and Perry in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the Service of the Year One thoufand /even hundred anil twenty nine, and for making good the Deficiency of a late Malt- Alt.
Page 144 - Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That...
Page 431 - ... 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 if the...
Page 131 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 57 - Sea ; and they were accordingly incorporated under the title of " the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas, and other parts of America, and for encouraging the Fifliery,
Page 185 - ... first made before some justice of the peace of a reasonable ground to suspect that such goods or chattels are therein) in the day-time, to break open and enter into such house, barn, stable...
Page 82 - ... and unless the same be made to take effect in possession for the charitable use intended, immediately from the making thereof, and be without any power of revocation, reservation, trust, condition, limitation, clause or agreement whatsoever, for the benefit of the donor or grantor, or of any person or persons claiming under him.
Page 141 - June, one thousand, seven hundred and thirty seven, every person who shall, for hire, gain or reward, act, represent or perform, or cause to be acted, represented or performed any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...

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