A History of Private Bill Legislation de Frederick Clifford

A History of Private Bill Legislation: (2 Volume Set)

Frederick Clifford

This is Volume II of two of a history of the private bill legislation originally published in 1887. Meant by the author as serving as a Jubilee record of the Queen Victoria’s reign, it covers the topics of highways, the water supply of London from the seventeenth century, local authorities before and after the Conquest, corporation of the City of London, Marine life and fire insurance, the Docks on the Thames, Fees on private bills and preliminary inquiries and public legislation.

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Paperback (1)

221^.04 lei 6-8 săpt.

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221^.04 lei 6-8 săpt.

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1264^.71 lei 6-8 săpt.

Taylor & Francis – mar 1968

1264^.71 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Part 1 Introduction: inclosure acts; town improvement acts; municipalities authorized to re-build; local statutes regulating industries; iron-works in Sussex; cloth manufacture in Kent; decay of southern manufactures; canals; railways; tramways; river tunnels; channel tunnel bills, 1883-4; gas lighting; electric lighting; London hydraulic power acts, 1871-84; Birmingham compressed air power company's act, 1884; improved procedure on private bills. Part 2 Private legislation - its rise and development. Part 3 Messages between the two houses: protests by peers; answers and assents by Crown to petitions or bills; royal assent by commission. Part 4 Ingrossment of private bills and acts: inrolment as statutes; drafted in statutory form by judges; protests by commons against delay in drafting; ancient records and language of statutes; first printed collection of acts; ordinances; mode of certifying private acts; promulgation. Part 5 Early precedents (personal): acts of attainder and restitution in blood; differences between houses as to right of originating such bills; act degrading from dukedom; acts not printed in statute-book; a judicial murder; estate, naturalization and divorce acts; miscellaneous. Part 6 Early precedents (personal) continued: divorce before the reformation; reformation legum ecclesiasticarum; parliamentary divorce - Marquis of Northampton, Lord Roos, James Campbell, Earl of Macclesfield, Duke of Norfolk; divorce obtained by women - divorce act, 1857; marriages annulled - cases of John Gooding and Edward Gibbon Wakefield; separation bills for cruelty of husband - Lady Anglesea and Countess Ferrers; declaration of illegitimacy bills; Townshend peerage case; diminished number of personal acts. Part 7 Early precedents (continued): the Templars; forestalling herrings at Yarmouth; salt fish at Blakeney; Mortmain; forays by dwellers in Tynedale; unruly scholars at Oxford; Berwick; exemptions from military service; fellowship of physicians; incorporation of surgeons; rivers, harbours and docks; lotteries - payment of members of parliament; appendices.