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Formularies, Or, The Magistrate's Assistant
Formularies Or The Magistrate's Assistant Author:William Robinson 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: pedlar, and petty chapman, and travelling from town to town, and to other men's houses within that part of the united kingdom called England as aforesaid, carryi... more »ng to sell such goods, wares, and merchandizes as aforesaid, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, exposed for sale and offered to sell, and did then and there actually sell by retail, and not by wholesale, a parcel, to wit, five yards and a half of narrow woollen cloth, he the said E. F. not being the real worker or maker of the said cloth, nor being the child, apprentice, agent, or servant of the worker or maker thereof, nor then being a person trading wholesale in the woollen or linen manufactuies of this kingdom, and selling the same by wholesale, nor immediately employed under any such person or persons to sell by wholesale only, nor being then in any public mart, market, or fair ; and that the said E. F was then and there found trading as aforesaid, without any licence so to do, contrary to the form of the statute in that case made and provided. HIGHWAYS. Parishes are prima facie bound to repair all highways, lying within their limits, unless by prescription they can throw the burthen on particular persons by reason of their tenure. Rex v. Inhabitants of Sheffield, 2 T. R. 106. The magistrates are not bound to appoint surveyors of the highways, from the list of persons returned to them under the 13 Geo. 3. c. 78. if in their opinion the persons named in the list are not qualified; but they may appoint other persons of the parish who are qualified. Rex v. Baldwin and another. T. R. 169. If the magistrates, upon lists returned to them, omit to appoint a surveyor of the highways at their first special sessions, as directed by the act, they...« less