Manual for Magistrates: Criminal Jurisdiction |
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Page 19 - ... any matter or thing which, if the same had been sworn in the usual form, would have amounted to wilful and corrupt perjury...
Page 362 - British possession as aforesaid to receive and afford a passage and subsistence during the voyage to any such offender as aforesaid, and to the witnesses...
Page 42 - ... at least one calendar month before the suing out or serving the same ; in which notice shall be clearly and explicitly contained the cause of action which such party hath or claimeth to have against such justice of the peace...
Page 259 - Any person who in any public place or at any public meeting uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned, shall be guilty of an offence.
Page 145 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 357 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
Page 68 - Britain, to be made and levied of their several Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements respectively, to the Use of our said Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, if he the said AB fail in the Condition indorsed.
Page 43 - ... by leave of the court where such action shall depend, at any time before issue joined, to pay into court such sum of money as he shall...
Page 355 - States, or of any state, upon application made to him by or on behalf of the person so committed, and upon proof made to him that reasonable notice of the intention to make such application has been given to the secretary of state, to order the person so committed to be discharged out of custody, unless sufficient cause is shown to such judge why such discharge ought not to be ordered.
Page 99 - And be it enacted, that if any woman shall be delivered of a child, and shall, by secret burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of the said child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof...