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

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Joseph Bentham, 1763 - Law
 

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Page 402 - Writing, shall have the Force and Effect of Leases or Estates at Will only, and shall not either in Law or Equity be deemed or taken to have any other or greater Force or Effect ; any Consideration for making any such Parol Leases or Estates, or any former Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 215 - I will not at any time endeavour any alteration of government either in Church or State.
Page 23 - December, 1661, shall be mayors, aldermen, recorders, bailiffs, town clerks, common councilmen and other persons then bearing any office or offices of magistracy, or places or trusts or other employment relating to or concerning the government of the said respective cities, corporations and boroughs and cinque ports and their members, and other port towns...
Page 352 - ... it enacted by the King's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the commons, in this prefent parliament aflembled...
Page 425 - V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said first day of December every peer of this realm, and member of the house of peers, and every peer of the kingdom of Scotland, or of the kingdom of Ireland, being of the age of one and twenty years or upwards, not having tak-en the said oaths, and made and subscribed the said declaration; and every member of the said...
Page 412 - ... either by Distress upon the Rectories Impropriate or Portions of Tithes charged therewith, or by Action of Debt against that Person who ought to have paid the same, his Executors or Administrators, any Disability in the Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate so granting, or any Disability or Incapacity in the Vicars or Curates to whom or to or for whose Use or Benefit the same...
Page 431 - ... the prisoner shall be brought as aforesaid, shall discharge the said prisoner from his imprisonment, taking his or their recognizance, with one or more surety or sureties, in any sum according to their discretions, having regard to the quality of the prisoner and nature of the offence, for his or their appearance...
Page 231 - Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That...
Page 435 - ... said realm of England, dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any of the...
Page 431 - ... his or their behalf, to appeal or complain to the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper, or any one of his Majesty's justices, either of the one bench or of the other, or the barons of the exchequer of the degree of the coif...

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