Supplement to An Analysis of the Constitution of the East-India Company: And of the Laws Passed by Parliament for the Government of Their Affairs, at Home and Abroad. To which is Prefixed, a Brief History of the Company, and of the Rise and Progress of the British Power in India |
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Page 79 - ... notice in writing of such appeal, and of the cause and matter thereof, within three days after such conviction, and seven clear days at the least before such sessions, and shall also either remain in custody until the sessions, or shall enter into a recognizance, with two sufficient sureties...
Page 72 - Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Page 86 - Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall extend [1] to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any other than a subject of her Majesty, or [2] to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Page 95 - That it shall be lawful to charge in the indictment and proceed against the offender for any number of distinct acts of embezzlement not exceeding three, which may have been committed by him against the same master, within the space of six calendar months from the first to the last of such acts ; and in every such indictment, except where the offence shall relate to any chattel, it shall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement to be of money, without specifying any particular coin or valuable security...
Page 54 - And be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect from and after the...
Page 103 - ... or else shall forfeit and pay, over and above the amount of the injury done, such sum of money, not exceeding five pounds, as to the justice shall seem meet...
Page 99 - ... fide taken or received by transfer or delivery, by some person or body corporate, for a just and valuable consideration, without any notice, or without any reasonable cause to suspect that the same had by any felony or misdemeanor been stolen, taken, obtained, extorted, embezzled, converted, or disposed of, in such case the court shall not award or order the restitution of such security...
Page 80 - Scotland by advocation or suspension into any superior court ; and no warrant of commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.
Page 94 - Act, in respect of any Act done by him, if he shall at any Time previously to his being indicted for such Offence have disclosed such Act, on Oath, in consequence of any compulsory Process of any Court of Law or Equity in any Action, Suit, or Proceeding which shall have been bond fide instituted by any Party aggrieved, or if he shall have disclosed the same in any Examination or Deposition before any Commissioners of Bankruptcy.
Page 96 - Seven Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award...
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| Title | Supplement to An Analysis of the Constitution of the East-India Company: And of the Laws Passed by Parliament for the Government of Their Affairs, at Home and Abroad. To which is Prefixed, a Brief History of the Company, and of the Rise and Progress of the British Power in India Making of the modern world |
| Author | Peter Auber |
| Publisher | Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
| Length | 203 pages |
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