An Act (8 & 9 Vict. C. 100) for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, with Explanatory Notes and Comments

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Forbes Winslow
W. Benning and Company and Henry Renshaw, 1845 - 173 pages
 

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Page 77 - ... regulated by the lord high treasurer, or the commissioners of her majesty's treasury, or any three of them...
Page 108 - ... 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 106 - Justice may summon the Person charged to appear at a Time and Place to be named in such Summons, and, if he shall not appear accordingly, then...
Page 62 - England ;' and an act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of his said late Majesty, intituled
Page 63 - QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled " An Act to amend the law of copyright...
Page 107 - And be it further enacted, That the Justices before whom any Person shall be convicted of any Offence against this Act may cause the Conviction to be drawn up in the following Form of Words, or in any other Form of Words to the same Effect, as the Case...
Page 107 - ... being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years...
Page 112 - Chancellor, or other person intrusted by virtue of the Queen's Sign Manual with the care and commitment of the custody of the persons and estates of lunatics...
Page 108 - Action shall have arisen, and not elsewhere ; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 106 - ... hereby empowered to take by way of recognizance or otherwise ; but if upon the return of such warrant it shall appear that no sufficient...

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