Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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Page 10 - is enacted that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl under sixteen years of age, out of the possession and against the will of her father, or mother, or other person having the lawful charge of her
Page 9 - charge of such child, of the possession of such child, or with intent to steal any article on its person; or shall with any such intent as aforesaid receive or harbour such child, knowing the same to have been so stolen or enticed, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to
Page 15 - and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the Crown, which succession, by an Act, intituled An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better
Page 324 - injuring or destroying records or documents belonging to any court of law or equity, or relating to any proceeding therein. 18. Stealing or fraudulently destroying or concealing wills or testamentary papers, or any document or written instrument being or containing evidence of the title to any real estate, or any interest in lands, tenements, or hereditaments.
Page 34 - to be arrested or taken in execution, or his goods, money, or chattels to be attached, sequestered, or taken in execution, or make or cause to be made, either within this realm or elsewhere, any fraudulent grant or conveyance of any of his
Page 10 - that where any woman shall have interest, present or future, in any real or personal estate, or shall be heiress presumptive, or next of kin, to any one having such interest, if any person shall, from motives of lucre, take away or detain such woman against
Page 326 - that no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other '. person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work, of their ordinary callings, ; upon the Lord's
Page 185 - such a punishment as was required, because of the defect in that particular of the former established constitutions of her kingdom, yet, with the unanimous consent of the parliament, she had caused a new act to be passed, to serve as a law for the future. This humiliating step,' says Blackstone,
Page 307 - the church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners, but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine.
Page 35 - Anne, c. 7, it is enacted, that if any person maliciously, advisedly, and directly, shall maintain, by writing or printing, that the kings of this realm, with the authority of parliament, are not able to make laws to bind