The Laws, Customs, Usages, and Regulations of the City and Port of London: With Notes of All the Charters, Ordinances, Statutes, and Cases

Front Cover
W.H. Bond, 1854 - Law - 618 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 428 - ... the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf.
Page 434 - ... any body politic or corporate whatsoever created or to be created, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership exceeding the number of six persons in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable on demand or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 368 - ... or because there is no other wharf in that port, as it may fall out where a port is newly erected; in that case there cannot be taken arbitrary and excessive duties for cranage, wharfage...
Page 224 - ... there to remain without bail or mainprize, for any time not exceeding one...
Page 22 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 480 - ... be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender or offenders...
Page 480 - ... goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal or hands and seals of such Justice or Justices...
Page 21 - ... to qualify you to give your vote ; and that the place of your abode is at in and that you are twenty-one years of age, as you believe ; and that you have not been polled before at this election.
Page 223 - That every summons issued under the authority of this Act may be served by delivering a copy of the summons to the party, or by delivering a copy of the summons to some inmate...
Page 150 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person...

Bibliographic information