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Page 13
... facts . The court would not allow any asumption of a religious cloak to prevent persons from discharging legal obligations . But the Society of Friends were known : they were a marked and peculiar caste ; were privileged , even as to ...
... facts . The court would not allow any asumption of a religious cloak to prevent persons from discharging legal obligations . But the Society of Friends were known : they were a marked and peculiar caste ; were privileged , even as to ...
Page 17
... fact of their being such owners or renters fur- nishes the best , if not the only satisfactory , earnest of their intention regularly to attend divine service at such churches or chapels . The observations in this section , so far as ...
... fact of their being such owners or renters fur- nishes the best , if not the only satisfactory , earnest of their intention regularly to attend divine service at such churches or chapels . The observations in this section , so far as ...
Page 85
... fact been filled up by a show of hands , as a proper and convenient method of election ( o ) . Another incident to the right of every qualified ratepayer to record his vote is the necessity of keeping the poll open sufficiently long to ...
... fact been filled up by a show of hands , as a proper and convenient method of election ( o ) . Another incident to the right of every qualified ratepayer to record his vote is the necessity of keeping the poll open sufficiently long to ...
Page 88
... fact an interruption of business legally proceeding , and the purpose of a postponement of it to a future time was without any plea of neces- sity , or even convenience , to justify it . " If the chairman have an arbitrary power of ...
... fact an interruption of business legally proceeding , and the purpose of a postponement of it to a future time was without any plea of neces- sity , or even convenience , to justify it . " If the chairman have an arbitrary power of ...
Page 90
... fact denied . In Baker and Downing v . Wood ( z ) , the adjourn- ment was from the vestry room to the town - hall , which was private property , and with reference to this part of the case , the learned judge said , " With respect to ...
... fact denied . In Baker and Downing v . Wood ( z ) , the adjourn- ment was from the vestry room to the town - hall , which was private property , and with reference to this part of the case , the learned judge said , " With respect to ...
Common terms and phrases
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...