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Page 58 - by any other person on his behalf, give, lend, or agree to give or lend, or shall offer, promise, or promise to procure, or to endeavour to procure, any money or valuable consideration to or for any voter ; or to or for any other person, in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain
Page 257 - section and ends with the 15th section. Then there is another heading : " And with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, be it enacted as follows." Then comes another heading, " With respect to the purchase-money or compensation coming to parties having limited interests, or prevented from treating or
Page 260 - clause, the language is still more significant. The enactment is, " If any party shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of any lands, or of any interest therein, which shall have been taken for, or injuriously affected by the execution of, the works, and for which the promoters of the undertaking shall not
Page 257 - section, which is the only one of wider application. Now that section is one of that class of clauses which are placed under the heading, " With respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, be it enacted as follows." That heading covers the sections beginning with the
Page 62 - be deemed to have conferred, or to confer, on the person entitled by reason of any such disposition or devolution a "succession," and the term "successor" shall denote the person eo entitled ; and the term " predecessor " shall denote the settlor, disponer, testator, obligor, ancestor, or other person from whom the
Page 318 - gift, loan, &c., as therein mentioned, to or for any person, in order to induce such persons to procure or endeavour to procure the return of any person to serve in Parliament, or the vote of any voter,'' &c. There was certainly a very large sum of
Page 47 - the satisfaction of the court that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the regulation necessary. Sect. 33: In every case of collision between two ships it shall be the duty of the person in charge of each ship, if and so far as he can
Page 307 - or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid (marriage), or by another will or codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator.
Page 259 - Then there is a clause of compensation, " Provided always that, in the exercise of the powers by this or the special Act granted, the company shall do as little damage as can be, and shall make full satisfaction, in manner herein and in the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith,
Page 47 - 33: In every case of collision between two ships it shall be the duty of the person in charge of each ship, if and so far as he can do so without danger to his own ship and crew, to render to the other ship, her master, crew ana passengers (if any), such assistance