Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and the Principal Matters, Volume 2J. Butterworth and Son, 1824 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... custom . A custom for the steward of a court leet to nominate certain persons to the bailiff , to be summoned on the jury , is a good custom . QUO The KING against JOLIFFE . UO warranto , calling upon the defendant to shew upon what ...
... custom . A custom for the steward of a court leet to nominate certain persons to the bailiff , to be summoned on the jury , is a good custom . QUO The KING against JOLIFFE . UO warranto , calling upon the defendant to shew upon what ...
Page 55
... custom set out in the rejoinder was bad in law . Scarlett , Adam , C. F. Williams , and Mereweather , shewed cause . The evidence was quite sufficient to warrant the finding of the jury . The commencement of the practice was not shewn ...
... custom set out in the rejoinder was bad in law . Scarlett , Adam , C. F. Williams , and Mereweather , shewed cause . The evidence was quite sufficient to warrant the finding of the jury . The commencement of the practice was not shewn ...
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... custom the same person may summon the jury and act as judge ; and here such a custom is found to have existed from time immemorial . There is not , therefore , any pretence for entering judgment for the crown . ( a ) Com . Dig . Leet ...
... custom the same person may summon the jury and act as judge ; and here such a custom is found to have existed from time immemorial . There is not , therefore , any pretence for entering judgment for the crown . ( a ) Com . Dig . Leet ...
Page 57
... custom for the steward to nominate the jury had existed from time immemorial . The mere practice for twenty years past was insufficient to raise such a pre- sumption , or to justify the opinion expressed by the learned Judge , that such ...
... custom for the steward to nominate the jury had existed from time immemorial . The mere practice for twenty years past was insufficient to raise such a pre- sumption , or to justify the opinion expressed by the learned Judge , that such ...
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... custom he was bound to return the panel , but that he was the proper common - law officer to perform that duty , and had neglected it ; and in Hawk . P. C. ( d ) it is said , that the sheriff may fine the bailiff for refusing to make a ...
... custom he was bound to return the panel , but that he was the proper common - law officer to perform that duty , and had neglected it ; and in Hawk . P. C. ( d ) it is said , that the sheriff may fine the bailiff for refusing to make a ...
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Page 780 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 779 - Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also, that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use ; (but not to dry or cure the same on that island ;) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks, of all other of his Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 779 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 173 - ... from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
Page 780 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
Page 456 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.
Page 896 - ... amounting in the whole to a large sum of money, to wit, the sum of 10/.
Page 781 - ... not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation, which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail. And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several states, that the estates, rights and properties of such...
Page 782 - Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens, which in the Course of the War may have fallen into the Hands of his Officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper States and Persons to whom they belong.
Page 36 - One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two ; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the...