A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-fisheries: And of the Statute Laws by which They are Regulated ... Comprehending Also the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon ... Together with the Form of a New Act, Designed to Remedy the Evils So Generally Complained Of; and an Abstract of the Evidence Before the Committee of the House of Commons Upon the Subject, with NotesLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 217 Seiten |
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Seite 110 - ... the defendant or defendants in such issue"1 action or suit, shall and may plead the general issue, and give this act, and the special matter, in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this act...
Seite 111 - Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff...
Seite 110 - ... agent or attorney ; and in case the same is not accepted, to plead such tender in bar to any action to be brought against him, grounded on such writ or process, together with the plea of not guilty...
Seite 109 - Majesty, his heirs and successors; one third to the governor of the plantation where such person shall so offend; and the other third to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesty's courts in...
Seite 111 - And be it further enacted, that if any action or suit shall be brought or commenced against any person or persons for...
Seite 200 - AND be it enacted, that no prosecution or other proceeding whatever shall be brought or commenced against any person for any offence against this Act, unless the same shall be commenced within six calendar months after such offence shall have been committed. X. AND be it enacted, that the words " river,"
Seite 49 - Thy fame is just, the sage replies ; Thy virtue proves thee truly wise. Pride often guides the author's pen ; Books as affected are as men : But he who studies nature's laws, From certain truth his maxims draws ; And those, without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good, and wise.
Seite 113 - London and the liberties thereof, or the rights, interests, privileges, franchises, or authorities of the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London, or their successors, or the lord mayor and aldermen of the said city...
Seite 160 - We will not hold the lands of them that be convict of felony but one year and one day and then those lands shall be delivered to the lord of the fee. Chapter 23. Weirs All weirs from henceforth shall be utterly put down by Thames and Medway, and through all England, but only by the seacoast.
Seite 161 - I remem" ber that the stells erected in the river Eden by *' the late Lord Lonsdale and the Corporation of *' Carlisle, whereby all the fish were stopped in " their passage up the river, were pronounced in " this court, upon a motion for a new trial, to be " illegal, and a public nuisance.