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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… circumstances should be able to write to his son-in-law, Sir Timothy Thornhill, lately a member of the Council, … not one who rightly understands the laws peculiar to the Courts of England, from whence arises a great lack of persons … in it which is not transcribed from the people's printed law-book, and the proceeds will not exceed 1,000 in New …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the best information that I could. The procedure of the Courts of Judicature varies so extremely, not only in the … without any rational disparity, they reject English law; and in another island or even in another division of the … after obtaining judgment for their debts in the Common-law Courts, are sometimes delayed for a year till a rehearing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… their offices by us, having made themselves incapable by law of holding them; and they are now in custody pending … are at one and the same time judges in one or two other Courts whose errors and appeals are to be heard in that same … the case of a rich Assiento ship called the St. Jago de la Victoria, for breach of the Navigation Acts. The ship was …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… arms and ammunition which the inhabitants are obliged by law to possess. There were over a hundred sail in the ports … so loudly called upon to supply the work of defence that Courts of Judicature are for the present suspended. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the Attorney General that the Acts are agreeable to law. Signed. Geo. Treby. March 26, 1691. The whole, 1 pp. … for providing ship-timber. 2 pp.; and copies of the law-officers' opinions of 17 May, 1675 and July 1677, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Order that the militia be discharged and that martial law cease on 30th inst. [ Board of Trade. Jamaica, 67. pp. … at rates one-third above their true value. Also, by this law servants, houses and lands are exempt from being chargeable for debts, and all process of law prevented by oath before a single justice. Such a method …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… if we are forced to do so we must justify ourselves by law. Sixteen signatories. Copy. 1 pp. [ America and West …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… a bill to amend the settling of the first day of General Courts for the public convenience. The progress of the … with honour and justice in this matter, making the law his rule to walk by. There are many imprudent things in … until the King's pleasure were known. In the business of Courts seven months lapsed before any were held, and now …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of General Assembly of New York. The opinion of the law-officers as to a disputed election sent down to the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies