A Hand-book of the Law of Scotland

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T. and T. Clark, 1862 - Law - 508 pages
 

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Page 303 - An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 281 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent, and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 264 - ALL costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred in the voluntary •winding-up of a company, including the remuneration of the liquidators, shall be payable out of the assets of the company in priority to all other claims.
Page 303 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Page 33 - ... universally ; because they may be infinitely diversified by the situation and character of the parties, by the state of general manners, and by many other incidental circumstances apparently slight and delicate in themselves, but which may have most important bearings in decisions upon the particular case.
Page 234 - Stamps, or in Drafts or Orders for the Payment of Money to the Bearer on Demand, drawn upon any Person or Persons carrying on the Business of a Banker, being duly licensed as aforesaid, within Fifteen Miles of the Place where such Drafts or Orders shall be so paid...
Page 289 - ... subsisting copyright, without the consent in writing of the proprietor thereof, or shall import for sale or hire any such book so having been unlawfully printed from parts beyond the sea, or, knowing such book to have been so unlawfully printed or imported, shall sell, publish, or expose to sale or hire, or cause to be sold, published, or exposed to sale or hire, or shall have in his possession, for sale or hire, any...
Page 125 - An Act to enable Proprietors of Entailed Estates in Scotland to feu or lease on long Leases Portions of the same for the Building of Churches and Schools, and for Dwellinghouses and Gardens for the Ministers and Masters thereof.
Page 289 - ... any persons to compose the same, or any volumes, parts, essays, articles or portions thereof, for publication in or as part of the same...
Page 249 - Promise in respect of anything done or omitted to be done after a Change shall have taken place in any One or more of the...

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