The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General View of the Domestic and Foreign Possessions of the Crown; the Laws, Commerce, Revenues, Offices, and Other Establishments, Civil and Military, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 - Great Britain |
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... Clerk of the Market Courts of the Royal Household Court of the Universities Juftices of the Peace · Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum Clerk of the Peace Conftables Offences against Religion , Morality , and the Church Establishment ...
... Clerk of the Market Courts of the Royal Household Court of the Universities Juftices of the Peace · Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum Clerk of the Peace Conftables Offences against Religion , Morality , and the Church Establishment ...
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... clerk , two copying clerks , one principal clerk , with fix affiftants for keeping and ftating the accounts of the revenue department , a receiver of fees , a keeper of the papers , a solicitor , a chamber keeper , four exchequer ...
... clerk , two copying clerks , one principal clerk , with fix affiftants for keeping and ftating the accounts of the revenue department , a receiver of fees , a keeper of the papers , a solicitor , a chamber keeper , four exchequer ...
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... clerks , among whom the official bufinefs of the treasury is divided , each having a department for which he is refponfible , and being affifted therein by one of the junior clerks . The duty of the fix fenior clerks , with their ...
... clerks , among whom the official bufinefs of the treasury is divided , each having a department for which he is refponfible , and being affifted therein by one of the junior clerks . The duty of the fix fenior clerks , with their ...
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... clerk , who accounts with him for them every month . His emoluments were formerly very large ; they are now fixed by statute at 4000l . per annum . In his office are a chief clerk , a keeper of the records , and clerk of the debentures ...
... clerk , who accounts with him for them every month . His emoluments were formerly very large ; they are now fixed by statute at 4000l . per annum . In his office are a chief clerk , a keeper of the records , and clerk of the debentures ...
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... clerk of the pells receives for himself , deputy , and twenty clerks 6840l . a year . Among the perfons employed in his office are clerks of the introitus and exitus , of declarations , patents , and debentures ; and branches of this ...
... clerk of the pells receives for himself , deputy , and twenty clerks 6840l . a year . Among the perfons employed in his office are clerks of the introitus and exitus , of declarations , patents , and debentures ; and branches of this ...
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Page 562 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Page 707 - LASTLY, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due ". The punishment is fine and imprisonment, and sometimes a forfeiture of the office.
Page 471 - ... its jurisdiction extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one. So that the injury must be done, complained of, heard, and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer.
Page 490 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Page 710 - ... upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom it shall be tried to find the defendant guilty merely on the proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel and of the sense ascribed to the same in the indictment or information.
Page 706 - Champerty is a species of maintenance and punished in the- same manner ; being a bargain with a plaintiff or defendant, campum partire, to divide the land or other matter sued for between them, if they prevail at law : whereupon the champertor is to carry on the party's suit at his own expense.
Page 283 - The necessity of order and discipline in an army is the only thing which can give it countenance, and therefore it ought not to be permitted in time of peace, when the King's Courts are open for all persons to receive justice according to the laws of the land.
Page 557 - And herein they state the naked facts, as they find them to be proved, and pray the advice of the court thereon; concluding conditionally, that if upon the whole matter the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff had cause of action, they then find for the plaintiff; if otherwise, then for the defendant.
Page 581 - King, his heirs and successors, or to deprive or depose him or them from the style, honour, or kingly name of the imperial crown of this realm, or of any other of His Majesty's dominions or countries, or to levy war against His...
Page 548 - A piece of ground is then in due time set out, of sixty feet square, enclosed with lists, and on one side a court erected for the judges of the court of common pleas, who attend there in their scarlet robes ; and also a bar is prepared for the learned Serjeants at law.