Local Government in England: The growth of English radicalism and its influence on the government of the countryMacmillan and Company, 1903 |
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Page 221 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 137 - The owner of any tithes, or of any tithe commutation rentcharge, or the occupier of any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, or as woodlands, market, gardens, or nursery grounds, and the occupier of any land covered with water or used only as a canal or towing path for the same, or as a railway constructed under the powers of any Act of Parliament for public conveyance...
Page 366 - A writ of mandamus is, in general, a command issuing in the king's name from the court of king's bench, and directed to any person, corporation, or inferior court of judicature, within the king's dominions; requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty, and which the court of king's bench has previously determined, or at least supposes, to be consonant to right and justice.
Page 82 - I think the consideration of such by-laws ought to be approached from a different standpoint. They ought to be supported if possible. They ought to be, as has been said,
Page 25 - ... council except in pursuance of a resolution of the council passed on the recommendation of the finance committee ; and any costs, debt, or liability exceeding fifty pounds shall not be incurred except upon a resolution of the council passed on an estimate submitted by the finance committee.
Page 140 - Any auditor acting in pursuance of this section shall disallow every item of account contrary to law, and surcharge the same on the person making or authorising the making of the illegal payment...
Page 263 - To the Guardians of the Poor of the Several Unions and Separate Parishes in England and Wales, and to all others whom it may concern...
Page 81 - I take to be an ordinance affecting the public or some portion of the public, imposed by some authority clothed with statutory powers, ordering something to be done or not to be done, and accompanied by some sanction or penalty for its non-observance. It...
Page 82 - A by-law is not unreasonable merely because particular judges may think that it goes further than is prudent, or necessary, or convenient, or because it is not accompanied by a qualification or an exception which some judges may think ought to be there. Surely it is not too much to say that in matters which directly and mainly concern the people of the...
Page 368 - Exchequer; directed to the judge and parties, of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution thereof, upon a suggestion , that either the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.