The Constitutional Year Book

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Conservative central office, 1912 - Great Britain

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Page 23 - John, the variations not being very material) shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or. any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.* We will sell to no man, we will not deny, or delay to any man justice or right.
Page 86 - Majesty for assent in pursuance of the provisions of this section, there shall be endorsed on the Bill the certificate of the Speaker of the House of Commons signed by him that the provisions of this section have been duly complied with.
Page 86 - Commons to be necessary owing to the time which has elapsed since the date of the former Bill, or to represent any amendments which have been made...
Page 86 - ... amendments without inserting the amendments in the Bill, and any such suggested amendments shall be considered by the House...
Page 86 - Parliament or not), and, having been sent up to the House of Lords at least one month before the end of the session, is rejected by the House of Lords in each of those sessions...
Page 86 - Lords, unless the House of Commons direct to the contrary, be presented to His Majesty and become an Act of Parliament on the Royal Assent being signified thereto, notwithstanding that the House of Lords have not consented to the Bill...
Page 388 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty...
Page 87 - Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same, as follows.
Page 86 - Royal Assent being signified thereto, notwithstanding that the House of Lords have not consented to the Bill; Provided that this provision s'hall not take effect unless two years have elapsed between the date of the second reading in the first of those sessions of the Bill In the House of Commons and the date on which it passes the House of Commons in the third of those sessions.
Page 318 - But if a person qualified under the last foregoing proviso ceases for six months to reside in the borough, he shall cease to be qualified under that proviso, and his office shall become vacant, unless he was at the time of his election and continues to be qualified in some other manner.

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