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An Act to ascertain the Weight of Trusses of Straw, and to punish Deceits in the Sale of Hay and Straw in Trusses, in London and within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, and within the Distance of Thirty Miles thereof; and to prevent common Salesmen of Hay and Straw from buying the same on their own Account, to sell again; and also to restrain ...
An Act for explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual, an Act made in the Twenty-second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, [j] intituled, "An Act for making a free Market for the Sale of Fish in the City of Westminster, and for preventing the forestalling and monopolizing of Fish; and for allowing the Sale of Fish under the Dimensions ...
An Act for incorporating the Governors of the Free Grammar School of the Town and Parish of Bolton in the Moors in the County Palatine of Lancaster, of the Foundation of Robert Lever, late of London, Gentleman, deceased, and for enlarging the Trusts and Powers of the said Governors for the Benefit of the said School.
An Act to allow the free Importation between Great Britain and Ireland of Home-made Chocolate; to prohibit the Importation of Foreign Chocolate into Ireland so long as the same shall be prohibited in Great Britain; and to grant certain Duties an Cocoa Nuts imported into Ireland. (Repealed by Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 105))
Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that New Hampshire could not constitutionally require citizens to display the state motto upon their license plates when the state motto was offensive to their moral convictions.
R v Hay (1860) was an English robbery trial argued by R. S. Nolan as suggesting a narrow priest–peninent privilege exists in England and Wales, such that the court did not require the priest to disclose any conversation which may have occurred, but on the facts of the case, imprisoned him for not stating who handed a stolen item to him by way of restitution to the victim of a robbery, the ...
As hay decomposes, heat is generated. In the absence of ventilation, the increased heat can cause a fire. The defendant built a hay rick (or haystack) near the boundary of his land which bordered the plaintiff's land. The defendant's hay rick had been built with a precautionary "chimney" to prevent the hay from spontaneously igniting, but it ...
An Act for allowing further Time to Persons in Offices or Employments to qualify themselves pursuant to an Act, entitled, "An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery." [a] (Repealed by Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 24))