Ordinances, Proclamations, &c., &c., &c., Relating to the Colony of Natal, 1836 to 1855, Volumes 1-2

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May and Davis, 1856
 

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Page 45 - I, AB , do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty, Queen Victoria...
Page 264 - Matter, and several Persons as well as One Person, and Females as well as Males, and Bodies Corporate as well as Individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction...
Page 84 - Be it enacted by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly thereof, as follows : — Repugnant iawe I. So much of the Constitution Ordinance, of the Royal 1 Letters Patent, commonly called the "Charter of Justice...
Page 49 - ... civil cases, should be laid before the persons who are appointed to decide upon them, and that such persons should exercise their judgment on the credit of the witnesses adduced and on the truth of their testimony...
Page 80 - Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof...
Page 425 - ... and if the ship shall depart without such clearance, or if the master shall deliver a false content, or shall not truly answer the questions demanded of him, he shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds.
Page 19 - We do hereby reserve to us, our heirs and successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these our Letters Patent as to us or them shall seem meet. 8. The Governor shall cause these our Letters Patent to be published in the Government 'Gazette' of our Colony of the Falkland Islands, and the same shall thereupon come into force.
Page 195 - Indictment or information, in every such case, it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall so think fit, to order the proper Officer to enter a plea of " Not Guilty" on behalf of such person ; and the plea so entered shall have the same force and effect as if such person had actually pleaded the same.
Page 498 - ... and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing ; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
Page 64 - England, who is and are respectively hereby empowered to proceed upon such petition in a summary way ; and in case the marriage proposed shall upon examination appear to be proper, the said lord chancellor...

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