A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year MCCCCXXIV, to the Close of the Session of Parliament MDCCCXXVII, in a Series of Titles, Alphabetically Arranged, Volume 2Bell & Bradfute and Thomas M. Shiells, 1828 - Law |
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Page 47
... Peers , all Judges of the Supreme Courts , including the Judge - Admi- ral and Commissaries of Edinburgh , all sheriffs and stewards of counties or stewartries , all magistrates of royal burghs , all ministers of the established church ...
... Peers , all Judges of the Supreme Courts , including the Judge - Admi- ral and Commissaries of Edinburgh , all sheriffs and stewards of counties or stewartries , all magistrates of royal burghs , all ministers of the established church ...
Page 97
... peers respecting oaths of calumny . By act of sederunt , 1. Feb. 1715 , § 6 , " any party against " whom a matter of fact shall be pleaded , may be compelled , " without making oath , to confess or deny it : And , if it " shall appear ...
... peers respecting oaths of calumny . By act of sederunt , 1. Feb. 1715 , § 6 , " any party against " whom a matter of fact shall be pleaded , may be compelled , " without making oath , to confess or deny it : And , if it " shall appear ...
Page 98
... peers and forty - five members delegated by the counties and burghs . This point was fixed by Articles XXII . and XXIII . of . the treaty , which are in the following terms : XXII . That by virtue of this treaty , of the peers of ...
... peers and forty - five members delegated by the counties and burghs . This point was fixed by Articles XXII . and XXIII . of . the treaty , which are in the following terms : XXII . That by virtue of this treaty , of the peers of ...
Page 99
... peers , and for electing forty - five members , by whom Scotland is to be represented in the Parliament of Great Britain ; and the Lords of Parliament of England , and the sixteen peers of Scotland , such sixteen peers being summoned ...
... peers , and for electing forty - five members , by whom Scotland is to be represented in the Parliament of Great Britain ; and the Lords of Parliament of England , and the sixteen peers of Scotland , such sixteen peers being summoned ...
Page 101
... peers of England now have , and which they , or any peers of Great Britain shall have after the Union ; and particularly the right of sitting upon the trials of peers : And in case of the trial of any peer in time of adjournment or ...
... peers of England now have , and which they , or any peers of Great Britain shall have after the Union ; and particularly the right of sitting upon the trials of peers : And in case of the trial of any peer in time of adjournment or ...
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Page 72 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 116 - A Senator shall not be capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 309 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, npon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 69 - An act to amend an act made in the third year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled, " An act for the better " explanation and supplying the defects of the former laws " for the settlement of the poor...
Page 6 - ... further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to...
Page 311 - An act for exempting their majesties' protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws...
Page 164 - ... to the person who shall sue for the same, and the other to the use of the United States, to be recovered by suit in any district court of the United States, within whose jurisdiction such offense may have been committed.
Page 124 - Heirs or Successors shall declare her or their Pleasure for holding the First or any subsequent Parliament of Great Britain until the Parliament of Great Britain shall make further provision therein a Writ do issue under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom...
Page 254 - Geo. 3, с. 37, it is declared that a witness cannot by law refuse to answer a question relevant to the matter in issue, the answering of which has no tendency to accuse himself...
Page 383 - King and of his people; and if a man slay the chancellor, treasurer, or the King's justices of the one bench or the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assize, and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their offices.