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Page 171 - Or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King's Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm or elsewhere...
Page 200 - That the power of publishing such of its reports, votes, and proceedings as it shall deem necessary or conducive to the public interests is an essential incident to the constitutional functions of parliament, more especially of this house as the representative portion of it.
Page 60 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Page 35 - ... aforesaid, and shall cause him to be served personally with a copy of such affidavit or affidavits, and...
Page 35 - ... brought for the recovery of the same, together with such costs as shall be given in the same...
Page 148 - ... such right, profit or benefit shall have been actually taken and enjoyed by any person claiming right thereto without interruption for the full period of thirty years...
Page 120 - For though, in particular cases, the repugnance of the law to dissolve the obligations of matrimonial cohabitation may operate with great severity upon individuals, yet it must be carefully remembered that the general happiness of the married life is secured by its indissolubility.
Page 123 - ... high treason, within the clause of levying war; for though they are not levelled at the person of the king, they are against his royal majesty ; and besides, they have a direct tendency to dissolve all the bonds 'of society, and to destroy all property and all government too, by numbers and an armed force.
Page 3 - Person" shall extend to a body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as an individual ; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things...
Page 107 - ... compass , imagine , invent , devise , or intend death or destruction , or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction...