Parliamentary Papers, Volume 2

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Page 3 - Any contract which if made between private persons would be by law required to be in writing, and signed...
Page 16 - ... and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing ; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
Page 15 - Custody ; and the Court at such Sessions shall hear and determine the Matter of the Appeal, and shall make such Order therein, •with or without Costs to either Party, as to the Court shall seem meet...
Page 2 - Defendant in any such Action, 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 think fit, whereupon such Proceeding, Order, and Adjudication shall be had and made in and by such Court as in other Actions where Defendants are allowed to pay Money into Court.
Page 41 - ... bye-laws, and make others, provided such bye-laws be not repugnant to the laws of that part of the United Kingdom where the same are to have effect...
Page 15 - Peace, conditioned personally to appear at the said Sessions, and to try such Appeal, and to abide the Judgment of the...
Page 2 - Act at a time and place mentioned in such summons, and to administer to him an oath to testify the truth in such matter ; and if any person so summoned shall, without reasonable excuse, refuse or neglect to appear at the time and place appointed for that purpose, having been paid or tendered...
Page 3 - ... of such appeal the court may, if they think fit, mitigate any penalty or forfeiture, or they may confirm or quash the adjudication, and order any money paid by the appellant, or levied by distress upon his goods, to...
Page 2 - Testimonial as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Five...

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