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Page 78
... assessed in respect of any annual rents , profit , or value not amounting to 50l . , shall give one vote , and no more ; and if assessed for any such annual rent amounting to 50l . , or up- wards ( whether in one or more than one charge ) ...
... assessed in respect of any annual rents , profit , or value not amounting to 50l . , shall give one vote , and no more ; and if assessed for any such annual rent amounting to 50l . , or up- wards ( whether in one or more than one charge ) ...
Page 113
... assess the parishioners according to their several properties rateable , and the making of this assessment belongs peculiarly to the parties themselves in vestry assembled . All who are in- terested ought then and there to attend , and ...
... assess the parishioners according to their several properties rateable , and the making of this assessment belongs peculiarly to the parties themselves in vestry assembled . All who are in- terested ought then and there to attend , and ...
Page 116
... and Samuel Hutchins from all costs and expenses to which they might be put touching their office of churchwardens , and they the said Charles Chesterton and Samuel Hutchins have , What to be Assessed . 117 out of the proceeds.
... and Samuel Hutchins from all costs and expenses to which they might be put touching their office of churchwardens , and they the said Charles Chesterton and Samuel Hutchins have , What to be Assessed . 117 out of the proceeds.
Page 117
... assessed to the incidental expenses , precisely in the same manner as to the repairs of the mother church . Indeed , were it otherwise , the necessary consequence would be great inconvenience and confusion . " According to the ...
... assessed to the incidental expenses , precisely in the same manner as to the repairs of the mother church . Indeed , were it otherwise , the necessary consequence would be great inconvenience and confusion . " According to the ...
Page 118
... - servations of Sir S. Lushington in White and Jackson v . Beard , 2 Curt . 480 . ( f ) Prid . 74 . ( g ) Andrews v . Hutton , Hob . 130 ; Latch . 203 ; God . c . 12 , s . 22 ; Prid . 83 . to be Assessed . 119 another parish , for in.
... - servations of Sir S. Lushington in White and Jackson v . Beard , 2 Curt . 480 . ( f ) Prid . 74 . ( g ) Andrews v . Hutton , Hob . 130 ; Latch . 203 ; God . c . 12 , s . 22 ; Prid . 83 . to be Assessed . 119 another parish , for in.
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Acts of parliament adjournment aforesaid appear appointed Archdeacon assessed authority baptism Barrister-at-Law bishop Bishop of Exeter bound Braintree Burder burial canon chancel chapelry charge chosen Church of England church or chapel church-building Acts church-rate churches and chapels churchyard commissioners common law consent Court of Arches Court of Queen's Curt custom discharge district parish divine service duly duty Ecclesiastical Court entitled exempt Faringdon further enacted Hagg hath holy orders Ibid illegal inhabitants judgment jurisdiction justices lands liable Lord mandamus ment minister necessary notice office of churchwarden ordinary overseers parish church parish clerk parish or place parishioners parochial party payment persons poll poor poor-rate present Prid proceedings purpose Queen's Bench ratepayers rector refuse repairs respect seats select vestry show of hands sidesmen statute thereof tion tithes validity Veley and Joslin vestry meeting vestrymen vote wardens
Popular passages
Page 309 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page xviii - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page xviii - Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Page 69 - Officer of the Company, and need not be under the Common Seal of the Company, and the same may be in Writing or in Print, or partly in Writing and partly in Print.
Page xxix - ... not, as they think fit ; and that, where it so happens that the fabric of the church stands in need of repair, the only question upon which the parishioners, when convened together to make a rate, can by law deliberate and determine is, not whether they will repair the church or not (for upon that point they are concluded by the law), but how, and in what manner, the common law obligation, so binding them, may be best and most effectually, and at the same time most conveniently and fairly between...
Page i - ... until public notice shall have been given of such vestry, and of the place and hour of holding the same, and the special purpose thereof, three days, at the least, before the day to be appointed for holding such Vestry, by the publication of such notice, in the parish church or chapel, on some Sunday during or immediately after divine service, and by affixing the same, fairly written or printed on the principal door of such church or chapel.
Page 267 - Christ, the true and eternal Son of God, is the only Saviour of the world, in whom alone all the mercies, graces, and promises of God to mankind, for this life and the life to come, are fully and wholly comprised.
Page xiv - ... shall be good, valid and effectual in the law to all intents and purposes whatsoever...
Page liv - Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the Church of England to forsake and reject the Churches of Italy, France, Spain, Germany, or any such like Churches, in all things which they held and practised, that, as the Apology of the Church of England confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies, which do neither endamage the church of God, nor offend the minds of sober men ; and only departed from them in those particular points, wherein they were fallen both from themselves in their ancient...