The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Comprising the Law Relative to Their Several Duties, with All the Necessry Forms of Commitments, Convictions, Orders, Etc, Volumes 1-3

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Page 215 - ... false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any of the King's current gold or silver coin...
Page 350 - King's counsel, your fellows, and "your own, you shall keep secret: You shall present no man "for envy, hatred, or malice ; neither shall you leave any man "unpresented for fear, favour, or affection, or hope of reward ; "but you shall present all things truly as they come to your "knowledge, according to the best of your understanding : So "help you GOD.
Page 245 - A conspiracy, it is said,f consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.
Page 515 - Justices at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for the County, Division, Riding, or Place wherein the Cause of such Complaint shall arise...
Page 343 - that none from henceforth make any entry into any lands and tenements, but in case where entry is given by the law, and in such case not with strong hand, nor with multitude of people, but only in a peaceable and easy manner.
Page 336 - That if any Person shall by any false Pretence obtain from any other Person any Chattel, Money, or valuable Security, with Intent to cheat or defraud any Person of the same, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor...
Page 102 - Majesty's superior Courts of Record ; and no Warrant of Commitment shall be held void by reason of any Defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the Party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid Conviction to sustain the same.
Page 319 - If any clerk or servant, or any person employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a clerk or servant...
Page 152 - Provided that nothing in this section contained shall extend to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any other than a subject of Her Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Page 80 - Queen in the said county, and also to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other misdemeanors, in the said county committed, by the oath of...

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