The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart: Delivered in the House of Commons, Volume 1Routledge, 1853 - Great Britain |
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Page 276 - Littleton having moved to bring in a Bill to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to the Payment of Wages in Goods, which passed by a majority of one hundred and forty.
Page 468 - II, and shall be put in possession, by order of the government, of such of them as are in the king's hands or the hands of his tenants, without being put to any suit or trouble therein...
Page 363 - By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without consent of Parliament.
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