An Act of Parliament for Repairing the Highways from Counter's Bridge, in the County of Middlesex, ... and for Lighting and Watering Part of the Said Highways

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printed at the Clarendon Press, 1769 - 106 pages

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Page 77 - ... and in any such action the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 91 - County, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding two Calendar Months...
Page 60 - ... be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal or hands and seals of such Justice or Justices...
Page 98 - Westminster ; 1 and where any distress shall be made for any sum or sums of money to be levied by virtue of this act, the distress itself shall not be deemed unlawful, nor the party or parties...
Page 61 - ... to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.
Page 7 - Colonies, be it hereby declared by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and •with the advice and confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this prefent Parliament...
Page 30 - ... in any one day (to be computed from twelve of the clock at night to twelve of the clock...
Page 18 - One Penny : For every Drove of Oxen or Neat Cattle...
Page 12 - inclusive, in the actual Possession and Enjoyment or Receipt of the * Rents and Profits of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of such
Page 43 - Warrant under his hand and seal to cause such money as may appear to him to be due and unpaid to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such Officer, rendering to him the overplus (if any), on demand, after payment of the money remaining due and deducting the charges...

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