A Practical Guide, to the Quarter, and Other, Sessions of the Peace: Adapted to the Use of Young Magistrates, and Gentlemen of the Legal Profession, at the Commencement of Their Public DutiesReed and Hunter, 1815 - 463 pages |
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A Practical Guide, to the Quarter, and Other, Sessions of the Peace: Adapted ... William Dickinson No preview available - 2018 |
A Practical Guide, to the Quarter, and Other, Sessions of the Peace: Adapted ... William Dickinson No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 112 - ... but you shall present all things truly as they come to your knowledge, according to the best of your understanding. So help you God !
Page 36 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Page 108 - Dispensation already granted by the Pope, or any Authority of the See of Rome, or any Person whatever, and without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man, or absolved of this...
Page 108 - And I do solemnly, in the Presence of God, profess, testify and declare that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words...
Page 107 - An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants ; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this...
Page 36 - I, AB, do declare, That I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.
Page 47 - The authorities establish beyond all question this: that neither party, witness, counsel, jury, nor judge, can be put to answer civilly or criminally for words spoken in office...
Page 34 - James the Third or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth or the style and title of King of Great Britain hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm or any other the dominions thereunto belonging.
Page 23 - England as in the like case it has been accustomed, or ought, to be done ; and the same offenders and every of them, for their offences, by fines, ransoms, amerciaments, forfeitures, and other means, as according to the law and custom of...
Page 128 - Peace, which shall first happen, and to abide the Order of and pay such Costs as shall be awarded by the Justices at such Quarter Sessions, or any Adjournment thereof...