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Peel's acts, and all the other criminal statutes
Peel's acts and all the other criminal statutes Author:Great Britain Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mitled contrary to the provisions hereinbefore contained, unless such prosecution shall be commenced within six calendar months after the offence committed. A... more »ct may be VIII. And be it further enacted, That this act repealed or ,,.,.-, -iured thu may be repealed in the whole or in any part session. ,/. It l :- thereof, or in any manner altered or amended, during the present session of parliament. 60 Geo. HI. and 1 Geo. IV. c. 4. An Act to prevent Delay io the Administration of Justice in Cases of Misdemeanor. [23d December, 1819.] Whereas great delays have occurred in the administration of justice, in cases of persons prosecuted for misdemeanors by indictment or information in His Majesty's Courts of King's Bench at Westminster and Dublin, and by indictment at the sessions of the peace, sessions of oyer and terminer, great sessions, and sessions of gaol delivery, in that part of Great Britain called England, and in Ireland respectively, by reason that the defendants in some of the said cases have, according to the present practice of such respective courts, an opportunity of postponing their trials to a distant period, by means of imparlances in the said several Courts of King's Bench, and by time being given to try in such respective courts of session: for remedy thereof be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by chapter{Section 4and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Penons pro- act, where any person shall be prosecuted in His the Court Majesty's Court of King's Bench at Westminster, Be or in His Majesty's Court of King's Bench in Dublin respectively, for any misdemeanor, either JJJj b...« less