The Magisterial Synopsis: Comprising Summary Convictions, and Indictable Offences, with Their Penalties, Punishments, &c. and the Stages of Procedure, Tabularly Arranged, Together with All Other Proceedings Before Justices Out of Quarter Sessions, Adapted Practically Throughout to the Provisions of Sir John Jervis's Acts, with Forms, Cases, Copious Notes, and Observations ...

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Butterworths, 1850 - 586 pages
 

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Page 387 - Felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an Accessory before the Fact to the principal Felony, together with the principal Felon, or after the Conviction of the principal Felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive Felony whether the principal Felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to Justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same Manner as any Accessory before the Fact to the same Felony, if convicted as an Accessory,...
Page 118 - CD ; and if, within the space of days next after the making of such distress, the said last-mentioned sum, together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the said distress, shall not be paid, that then you do sell the said goods...
Page 532 - 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, upon 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 104 - Majesty's superior courts of record ; and no warrant of commitment under this Act shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it is therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there is a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.
Page 418 - These are therefore to command you the said constable of to take the said AB, and him safely to convey to the [House of Correction] at aforesaid, and there deliver him to the keeper thereof, together with this precept : And I do hereby command you, the said keeper of the said [House...
Page 100 - Correction [and there kept to hard Labour] for the Space of to commence at and from the Termination of his Imprisonment aforesaid, unless the said Sum for Costs shall be sooner paid. Given under my Hand and Seal, the Day and Year first above mentioned, at in the County aforesaid.
Page 392 - ... but if any such variance shall appear to the justice or justices present and acting at such hearing to be such that the party so apprehended under such warrant has been thereby deceived or misled, it shall be lawful for such justice or justices, upon such terms as he or they shall think fit, to adjourn the hearing of the case to some future day...

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