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Page 170 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 330 - The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Page 282 - Pope, were regulated by it, till the survey made in the twenty-sixth year of Henry VIII.; and because the statutes of colleges, which were founded before the Reformation, are also interpreted by this criterion, according to which their benefices under a certain value are exempted from the restriction in the statute of the twenty-first of Henry VIII. concerning pluralities.
Page 455 - Most of these ancient petitions appear to have been presented in consequence of assaults and trespasses, and a variety of outrages which were cognizable at common law, but for which the party complaining was unable to obtain redress, in consequence of the maintenance or protection afforded to his adversary by some powerful baron, or by the sheriff or other officer of the county in which they occurred.
Page 257 - Of Widows and Heiresses of Tenants in Capite, whose Marriages were in the Gift of the King, with the Values of their I/ands.
Page 18 - Winchelsea moved for the appointment of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, 'to inquire into the state of Education of the Lower Orders of the People in London, Westminster, and Southwark.
Page 452 - Lawrence, in the sixth year of the reign of King Richard the Second after the Conquest of England, before Roger Juyl, Escheator of the Lord the King...
Page 349 - Vol. i. contains the Dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, Bath and Wells, Bristol, Chichester, and London. Vol. ii., Winchester, Salisbury, Oxford, Exeter, and Gloucester. Vol.
Page 355 - From these proceedings, it appears that the chief business in the Court of Chancery, in those early times, did not arise from the introduction of uses of land, according to the opinion of most writers on the subject ; very few instances of applications to the Chancellor on such grounds occurring among the proceedings of the chancery during the first four or five reigns after the equitable jurisdiction of the court seems to have been fully established. Most of these ancient petitions appear to have...
Page 281 - King's precept was begun in that year (1288) and finished as to the Province of Canterbury in 1291, and as to that of York, in the following year ; the whole being under the direction of John, Bishop of Win ton, and Oliver, Bishop of Lincoln...