Practical Remarks, and Precedents of Proceedings in Parliament: Comprising the Standing Orders of Both Houses, to the End of the Year 1801; Relative to the Applying For, and Passing, Bills for Inclosing Or Draining Lands; Making Turnpike Roads, Navigations, Aqueducts; Building Bridges; for the More Easy Recovery of Small Debts; Paving, &c. Towns; Confirming Or Prolonging the Term of Letters Patent; Obtaining Divorces; and Bills Called Estate Bills; with an Introductory Chapter, Containing Practical Directions for Soliciting Private Bills in General; and with Occasional References to Acts of Parliament, Adjudged Cases, &c

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B. McMillan, sold by Messrs. Brooke and Rider, 1802 - Great Britain - 266 pages

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Page 219 - Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, ' that leave may be given to bring in a bill for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts within the said city and county of the said city, and the liberties thereof.
Page 119 - ... it is ordered by the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament assembled, That the said...
Page 1 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 145 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery...
Page 145 - England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account there ex part e the said Company of Proprietors, to the Intent that such Money shall be applied, under the Direction and...
Page 80 - Court, be paid to such person or persons, as would, for the time being, be entitled to the rents and profits of such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, so to be purchased, conveyed, and settled.
Page 222 - An Act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts, within the town of Loughborough, and other places therein mentioned, in the counties of Leicester and Nottingham.
Page 72 - Monies and Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster on account of the Suitors of the said Court, and for the appointment of an Accountant General and two Masters of the said Court, and for other purposes...
Page 172 - Handel reserving to himself only the liberty of performing the same for his own benefit during his life: And whereas, the said benefaction cannot be secured to the sole use of your petitioners except by the authority of Parliament, your petitioners therefore humbly pray that leave may be given to bring in a bill for the purposes aforesaid.
Page 104 - in the. months of October and November, or either of them, immediately preceding the Session of Parliament in which Application for the Bill shall be made, in the London, Edinburgh or Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in some one and the same Newspaper of the County in which the City, Town or Lands to which such Bill relates shall be situate ; or if there be no Newspaper published therein, then in the Newspaper...

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