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    statute


    1. condemned by statute and


    2. (Specific tax codes, exemptions, and collections to be issued in accordance with California policy and Tahoe City Charter, and set forth in a separate statute, forthcoming


    3. The statute of Henry VIII


    4. By the 5th of Elizabeth, commonly called the Statute of Apprenticeship, it was enacted, that


    5. statute are very general, and seem plainly to include the whole kingdom, by interpretation its


    6. By a strict interpretation of the words, too, the operation of this statute has been limited to


    7. being within the statute, because not exercised in England at the time when it was made


    8. account, not within the statute, not having been exercised in England before the 5th of


    9. any statute of apprenticeship


    10. {See the Statute of Labourers, 25, Ed

    11. The statute of


    12. the statute of apprenticeship takes place, have no other choice, but dither to come upon the


    13. By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon


    14. Some frauds, it is said, were committed in consequence of this statute; parish officers


    15. This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new


    16. certificated man should come to reside, it was further enacted by the same statute, that he


    17. was enacted what is called the Statute of Labourers


    18. been reckoned a very moderate price of wheat, since it required a particular statute to oblige servants to accept of it in exchange for their usual livery of provisions ; and it had been reckoned a reasonable price ten years before that, or in the 16th year of the king, the term to which the statute refers


    19. This statute is surely a better evidence of what was reckoned, in those times, a moderate price of grain, than the prices of some particular years, which have generally been recorded by historians and other writers, on account of their extraordinary dearness or cheapness, and from which, therefore, it is difficult to form any judgment concerning what may have been the ordinary price


    20. was revived an ancient statute, called the assize of bread and ale, which, the king says in the preamble, had been made in the times of his progenitors, some time kings of England

    21. Ten shillings, therefore, containing six ounces of silver, Tower weight, and equal to about thirty shillings of our present money, must, upon this supposition, have been reckoned the middle price of the quarter of wheat when this statute was first enacted, and must have continued to be so in the 51st of Henry III


    22. We cannot, therefore, be very wrong in supposing that the middle price was not less than one-third of the highest price at which this statute regulates the price of bread, or than six shillings and eightpence of the money of those times, containing four ounces of silver, Tower weight


    23. In the statute of Tumbrel and Pillory, enacted nearly about the same time, the price of ale is regulated according to every sixpence rise in the price of barley, from two shillings, to four shillings the quarter


    24. That four shillings, however, was not considered as the highest price to which barley might frequently rise in those times, and that these prices were only given as an example of the proportion which ought to be observed in all other prices, whether higher or lower, we may infer from the last words of the statute: " Et sic deinceps crescetur vel diminuetur per sex denarios


    25. " In the composition of this statute, the legislature itself seems to have been as negligent as the copiers were in the transcription of the other


    26. In an ancient manuscript of the Regiam Majestatem, an old Scotch law book, there is a statute of assize, in which the price of bread is regulated according to all the different prices of wheat, from tenpence to three shillings the Scotch boll, equal to about half an English quarter


    27. The last words of the statute are " reliqua judicabis secundum praescripta, habendo respectum ad pretium bladi


    28. statute of readers in that of the writer, if he


    29. I, the author of this e-book, offer no professional services to the general public or otherwise, and more specifically, no medical, psychological or any other type of services or counseling that are, by statute or otherwise, restricted to certified professionals


    30. Let the same natural liberty of exercising what species of industry they please, be restored to all his Majesty's subjects, in the same manner as to soldiers and seamen ; that is, break down the exclusive privileges of corporations, and repeal the statute of apprenticeship, both which are really encroachments upon natural Liberty, and add to those the repeal of the law of settlements, so that a poor workman, when thrown out of employment, either in one trade or in one place, may seek for it in another trade or in another place, without the fear either of a prosecution or of a removal; and neither the public nor the individuals will suffer much more from the occasional disbanding some particular classes of manufacturers, than from that of the soldiers

    31. The authority of three justices of the peace was, by the statute of Edward VI


    32. But even this restraint was afterwards thought insufficient, and, by a statute of Elizabeth, the privilege of granting it was confined to the quarter-sessions


    33. All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn dealer has ever yet enjoyed was bestowed upon it by this statute


    34. The statute of the twelfth of the present king, which repeals almost all the other ancient laws against engrossers and forestallers, does not repeal the restrictions of this particular statute, which therefore still continue in force


    35. This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices


    36. imperfections, has, perhaps, contributed more, both to the plentiful supply of the home market, and to the increase of tillage, than any other law in the statute book


    37. The great cheapness of corn in the years immediately preceding the establishment of the bounty may, perhaps with reason, be ascribed in some measure to the operation of this statute of Charles II


    38. Yet, till wheat has risen above this latter price, it was, by this statute, subjected to a very high duty; and, till it had risen above the former, to a duty which amounted to a prohibition


    39. By this statute, the high duties upon importation for home consumption are taken off, so soon as the price of middling wheat rises to 48s


    40. By the same statute, the old bounty of 5s

    41. The same statute permits, at the lowest prices, the importation of corn in order to be exported again, duty free, provided it is in the mean time lodged in a warehouse under the joint locks of the king and the importer


    42. I do not observe, at least in our statute book, any encouragement given to the importation of the instruments of trade


    43. 4, by which it is declared that " Whereas the statute of the 13th and 14th of king Charles II


    44. The penalties, however, which are either imposed by this milder statute, or which, though imposed by former statutes, are not repealed by this one, are still sufficiently severe


    45. But, as the morals of the great body of the people are not yet so corrupt as those of the contrivers of this statute, I have not heard that any advantage has ever been taken of this clause


    46. By a subsequent statute, the master suffers six months imprisonment


    47. By the same statute, a great number of foreign drugs for dyers use are exempted from all duties upon importation


    48. The re-establishing this ancient order was the object of several statutes enacted in England during the course of the fourteenth century, particularly of what is called the statute of provisors ; and of the pragmatic sanction, established in France in the fifteenth century


    49. The late attempts to introduce the culture of this plant into England, have been made only in consequence of the statute, which enacted that five shillings an acre should be received in lieu of all manner of tythe upon madder


    50. Inside the SAP Dog School is a small statute of a member and his Alsatian on patrol whilst on border duty for they went where their handler went





































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    Synonyms for "statute"

    legislative act statute codified decree edict law ordinance ruling

    "statute" definitions

    an act passed by a legislative body


    enacted by a legislative body