A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice; Chiefly Consisting of Such as Have Never Before Been Printed: with an Index to the Principal Work, Incorporating and Making it a Continuation of Townshend's and Cornwall's Tables, to the Present Time; as Well as an Index of Reference to All the Ancient and Modern Entries Extant, Volume 6G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1798 - Pleading |
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accuſtomed affembled afore aforefaid againſt aldermen alfo anſwer bailiffs becauſe behalf borough of H burgeffes cafe caufe chofen common council commonalty coroner and attorney county aforefaid court leet cuftom divers duly efquire exercife faid borough faid city faid coroner faid county faid defendant faid H. R. faid information faid J. W. faid John faid laft-mentioned faid late queen faid letters patent faid lord faid mayor faid office faid parish faid plea faid prefent fovereign faid town faid ward faid William falfe fame ferved fhall fhillings fhould force and arms franchifes freemen ftatute fubjects fucceffors fuch fuppofed further faith fworn himſelf Ibid Indictment inhabitants juftices jurors aforefaid liberties lord the king manner and form matters therein contained nominated office of mayor peace place and office pleaded prays prefent fovereign lord premiſes profecutes purpoſe reafon reign ſaid ſtill thereof ufurped unlawfully uſed whereof the memory writ
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Page 395 - In contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 375 - ... againft the peace of our faid lord the king, his crown and dignity, and againft the form of the ftatute in fuch cafe made and provided : And the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefaid, do Fourth count, further prefent, that the faid Richard Chard, &c.
Page 1 - ... so many and such good and lawful men of his bailiwick (as well within liberties as without) by whom the truth of the matter in the premises shall be the better known and inquired into.
Page 407 - for the amendment and preservation of the highways," (upon his own view), or (ujmn information, upon oath, to him given, by CD surveyor of the highways fur the (parish, fyc.) of in the said county), doth present, that 'from the time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary...
Page 59 - ... one body corporate and politic, in deed and in name, by the name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay...
Page 1 - London, and by other ways means and methods by which they should or might better know (as well within liberties as without) by whom the truth of the matter...
Page 306 - London, of being themselves a body corporate and politic, by the name of the mayor, and commonalty, and citizens of the city of London...
Page 194 - York, for the time being, and their successors, forever hereafter be, and shall be, by force of these presents, one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact and name, by the name of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York...
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