Encyclopædia of the Laws of England: With Forms and Precedents by the Most Eminent Legal Authorities, Volume 5Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1907 |
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Page 17 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 642 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 246 - ... in the case of partial incapacity the weekly payment shall in no case exceed the difference between the amount of the average weekly earnings of the workman before the accident and the average weekly amount which he is earning or is able to earn in some suitable employment or business after the accident...
Page 642 - It is further agreed, that His Majesty and The United States, on mutual requisitions by them respectively, or by their respective Ministers, or Officers authorized to make the same, will deliver up to justice all Persons, who being charged with murder or forgery, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an. asylum within any of the Countries of the other...
Page 257 - Where the amount of compensation under this act shall have been ascertained, or any weekly payment varied, or any other matter decided, under this act, either by a committee or by an arbitrator or by agreement...
Page 655 - Neither of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver up its own citizens or subjects under the stipulations of this Convention.
Page 220 - ... any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, clerical work, or otherwise, and whether the contract is expressed or implied, is oral or in writing...
Page 652 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign state unless provision is made by the law of that state, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign state for any offence committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded...
Page 111 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said nomination or election.
Page 246 - Any weekly payment may be reviewed at the request either of the employer or of the workman, and on such review may be ended, diminished or increased, subject to the maximum above provided, and the amount of payment shall, in default of agreement, be settled by arbitration under this Act.