Montserrat: Sessional lawsGovernment Printer, South Africa, 1857 - Law |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 12
Page 11
... shall become necessary at any time for any purpose whatsoever to draw up a formal record in any case where any MONTSERRAT . amendment shall slave been made under the provisions. 100 , S , 3 , case . to be employed . the Jail . 83 THE LAWS ...
... shall become necessary at any time for any purpose whatsoever to draw up a formal record in any case where any MONTSERRAT . amendment shall slave been made under the provisions. 100 , S , 3 , case . to be employed . the Jail . 83 THE LAWS ...
Page 14
... employed for the purpose Person - indicted for or in the capacity of a Clerk or Servant , it shall be proved that embezzlement as a le took the property in question in any such manner as to acquitted if the otamount in Law to larceny ...
... employed for the purpose Person - indicted for or in the capacity of a Clerk or Servant , it shall be proved that embezzlement as a le took the property in question in any such manner as to acquitted if the otamount in Law to larceny ...
Page 8
... Bench and Common Pleas , Grand Sessions of Oyer and Termi - conviction in sach ner , General Jail Delivery and General Sessions of the Peace , : . . . and every person convicted before such. case . to be employed . the Jail . 83 S .
... Bench and Common Pleas , Grand Sessions of Oyer and Termi - conviction in sach ner , General Jail Delivery and General Sessions of the Peace , : . . . and every person convicted before such. case . to be employed . the Jail . 83 S .
Page 10
... employed beyond. to be employed . the Jail . 83 S . . Where necessary to acquittal of person.
... employed beyond. to be employed . the Jail . 83 S . . Where necessary to acquittal of person.
Page 11
Sessional laws Montserrat. ed always that none but male prisoners shall be employed beyond the walls of the Common Jail . - Joj : for superintending Expences incurred - XLIX . It shall be lawful for the Officer Administering the the ...
Sessional laws Montserrat. ed always that none but male prisoners shall be employed beyond the walls of the Common Jail . - Joj : for superintending Expences incurred - XLIX . It shall be lawful for the Officer Administering the the ...
Common terms and phrases
according Action Administering the Government aforesaid amend answer appear apply appointed Assembly authority Boat Canoe cause certified charged Clerk Colony commit Common contained conviction copy Council Court custody Dated defendant deposited direct district Duly Duties EDWARD employed enacted enter entitled Entry evidence examined exceeding exported false felony Fifty force forfeited forfeiture give given grant guilty hereby highways Importer imposed imprisoned indictment Island Jail Judge Jury Justice labour landed lawful liable Liquors Majesty's manner March matter ment mentioned MONTSERRAT necessary Oath offence Officer Administering otherwise paid party Passed payment Peace Penalty perform perjury person Pounds proceeding proof proper prosecuted proved Public punished receive repealed resident respectively Roads seized setting shillings Ship statute sufficient Summons Surveyor taken term thereof thing Thousand Eight Hundred Treasurer trial Twenty unless Vessel Warehouse Warrant Witness writing
Popular passages
Page 6 - ... nor for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed ; in any case where time is not of the essence of the offence, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment, or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened...
Page 5 - ... sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court...
Page 6 - ... or vice Versa, nor for that any person mentioned in the indictment is designated by a name of office, or other descriptive appellation, instead of his proper name, nor for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offence, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment, or...
Page 10 - A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the Judge, prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony...
Page 13 - ... it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, and in such manner as to sufficiently identify snch instrument, without setting out any copy or fac-simile of the whole or any part thereof.
Page 13 - ... was guilty only of an attempt to commit the same, such person shall not by reason thereof . be entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be at liberty to return as their verdict that the defendant is not guilty of the felony or misdemeanour charged, but is guilty of an attempt to commit the same...
Page 10 - If any person called as a witness, or required or desiring to make an affidavit or deposition, shall refuse or be unwilling from alleged conscientious motives to be sworn, it shall be lawful for the court or judge or other presiding officer, or person qualified to take affidavits or depositions, upon being satisfied of the sincerity of such objection, to permit such person, instead of being sworn, to make his or her solemn affirmation or declaration in the words following; videlicet, " I, AB, do...
Page 11 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness, or otherwise, of the writing in dispute.