The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 ...

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Joseph Bentham, 1763 - Law

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Page 50 - ... enacted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords...
Page 27 - Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 310 - ... duties ; and to prevent the fraudulent obtaining of allowances in the gauging of corn making into malt ; and for making forth duplicates of exchequer bills, tickets, certificates, receipts, annuity orders, and other orders lost, burned, or otherwise destroyed.
Page 88 - Chapter the seventh, it is enacted that the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being or any three or more of them or...
Page 26 - Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That...
Page 316 - Sunday, between the hours of nine in the morning and three in the afternoon...
Page 230 - Aim of three millions five hundred thoufand pounds, by way of annuities and lotteries, to be charged on the faid duties; The faid bill was accordingly read afecond time.
Page 48 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm...
Page 70 - Hereditaments, within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick...
Page 183 - Pounds ; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majefty's Courts of Record at...

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