A History of Private Bill Legislation, Volume 2Butterworth's, 1887 |
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39 Vict 42 Vict acres afterwards Aldermen allowed amended ancient annuities appointed authorities body borough canal capital charge charter City of London clauses clerk coal duty Commissioners conduits Corporation Corporation of London cost Council counsel Court Crown debt districts docks drainage duties on coal East London Epping Forest estates favour fees fire fund Glasgow granted House of Commons House of Lords improvements inhabitants inquiry interest Journ jurisdiction labour land legislation letters patent Liverpool London Bridge Lord Mayor ment Metropolis Metropolitan Board mittee municipal objects officers open spaces orphans owners paid pany parish Parliament passed persons petition petitioners poration powers private Bills promoters proposed Provisional Order railway rates regulations Report revenue river Royal sanctioned sanitary scheme Serjeant-at-Arms Session sewage sewers Standing Orders statute statutory streets Thames tion tolls town trade tramways undertaking water companies water supply Waterworks
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Page 550 - ... it cometh to pass upon the loss or perishing of any ship there followeth not the undoing of any man, but the loss lighteth rather easily upon many than heavily upon few, and rather upon them that adventure not than those that do adventure, whereby all merchants, especially the younger sort, are allured to venture more willingly and more freely...
Page 186 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rentcharge, if any, and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of the repairs and insurance, and the other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain the hereditament in a state to command that rent...
Page 508 - ... and that as well for the purpose of avoiding the necessity of repeating such provisions in each of the several Acts relating to such undertakings as for ensuring greater uniformity in the provisions themselves...
Page 369 - Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Page 224 - ... to no popular control, and whose acts and proceedings being secret, are unchecked by the influence of public opinion ; a distrust of the municipal magistracy, tainting with suspicion the local administration of justice, and often accompanied with contempt of the persons by whom the law is administered ; a discontent under the...
Page 4 - ... be clear underneath. And if by default of the lord that will not abate the dyke, underwood, or bushes, in the manner aforesaid, any robberies be done therein, the lord shall be answerable for the felony ; and if murder be done the lord shall make a fine at the king's pleasure.
Page 603 - ... no insurance shall be made by any person or persons, bodies politick or corporate, on the life or lives of any person or persons, or on any other event or events whatsoever, wherein the person or persons for whose use, benefit, or on whose account such policy or policies shall be made, shall have no interest, or by way of gaming or wagering; and that every assurance made, contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof, shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Page 286 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 334 - Works; and such board shall make such sewers and works as they may think necessary for preventing all or any part of the sewage within the metropolis from flowing or passing into the river Thames in or near the metropolis...
Page 741 - That the offer of any money or other advantage to any Member of this House, for the promoting of any matter whatsoever depending, or to be transacted in Parliament, is a high crime and misdemeanor, and tends to the subversion of the constitution.