Compendious Abstract of Public General Acts

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Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports, 1856 - Law
 

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Page 65 - a Director, shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such Directors or Persons acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such Person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a Director. (2.)
Page 51 - Act, 11 & 12 Viet. c. 43, intituled ' An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to Summary Convictions and Orders' ; and as to Scotland, before two or more Justices or the sheriff of the county, in the manner directed by the Act,
Page 219 - certificate purporting to be signed as aforesaid shall be sufficient evidence before a court-martial of such conviction or acquittal, and it shall not be necessary to prove the signature or official character of the person appearing to have .signed the certificate, nor, if the Court be satisfied from all the circumstances of the case that the prisoner
Page 105 - section of the Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales it was enacted, that on the 5th of September in every year the overseers of the poor of every parish wholly or in part within any borough shall make out
Page 107 - be guilty of a misdemeanour. 4. If any person, being a bailee of any property, shall fraudulently take' or convert the same to his own use, or the use of any person other than the owner thereof, although he shall not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment, he shall
Page 285 - and conveying of the said CD to the said [House of Correction], amounting to the further Sum of , shall be sooner paid unto you the said Keeper; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given under my Hand and Seal, this
Page 16 - LXXIII. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively . . . 127 LXXIV. An Act to continue the Act to facilitate the Management
Page 12 - before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting, within twenty-one days after the next meeting thereof; and it shall be lawful for either of the Houses of Parliament, by any resolution passed within thirty-six days after such rules or orders have been laid before
Page 104 - to be construed as one. By this Act, After reciting that by section 75. of the Act, 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 76, " to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales,
Page 55 - To bring or defend any action, suit, or prosecution, or other legal proceeding, civil or criminal, in the name and on behalf of the company : To carry on the business of the company, so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the same

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