Cases and Resolutions of Cases: Adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench

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H. Lintot (assignee of E. Sayer), 1742 - Law reports, digests, etc - 417 pages

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Page 311 - Ann., hospital lands are chargeable to the poor as well as others ; for no man by appropriating his lands to an hospital, can discharge or exempt them from taxes to which they were subject before, and throw a greater burden upon his neighbours (»). In the case of St.
Page 417 - Suit, may plead the General Iffue, and give the fpecial Matter in Evidence...
Page 295 - Ryflip? which queftion has been already determined by the juftices on the appeal, who have adjudged that he was laft fettled at L 5^5 1 Ryflip.
Page 252 - Seffions may commit as the two Juftices might have done ; that is, unlefs the Party put in Security to perform the Order, or to appear at the next Seffions.
Page 297 - ... one houfe is vacant : But if one tenement be divided by a partition, and inhabited by different families, viz. the owner in one, and a ftranger in another, thefe are feveral tenements feverally rateable, while they are thus feverally inhabited ; but if the ftranger and his family go away, it becomes one tenement.
Page 294 - ... that this warrant was granted before any default, which ought not to be, no more than a warrant to distrain for poor's rates before demand made.
Page 295 - Elix. c. 2, doth appoint. And the difference is, where a man is committed as a criminal, and where only for contumacy (as in this case,) in refusing to do a thing required, &c. ; for in the first case, the commitment must be until discharged according to law ; but in the latter, until he comply and perform the thing required ; for in that case he shall not lie till a sessions, but shall be discharged upon the performance of his duty. Wherefore the churchwardens were discharged by rule of court.

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