| Edmund Bott - 1773 - 552 páginas
...miftake. * There is a known diftinclion be- «s«epl, it. tween circumftances which are of the eflence of a thing required to be done by an act of parliament, and claufes merely directory. The precife time in many cafes is not of the eflence. In ,R. y. Sparrow,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Burrow - 1812 - 604 páginas
...501. 527. pi. 9. 2 East. 171.] f 447 1 There is a known distinction between circumstances TJ- HH p ,J which are of the essence of a thing required to be done •49, 50. 1'gv'in.' by an act of parliament, and clauses merely directory. iii, 512.] The precise... | |
| Edmund Bott - 1827 - 824 páginas
...to quash the order appointing five overseers ; but that is a mistake. There is a known distinction between circumstances which are of the essence of...precise time, in many cases, is not of the essence. In Rex v. Sparrow (b), the justices had been guilty of a neglect in not appointing overseers within... | |
| Edmund Bott - 1827 - 858 páginas
...to quash the order appointing five overseers ; but that is a mistake. There is a known distinction between circumstances which are of the essence of...precise time, in many cases, is not of the essence. In Rex v. Sparrow (¿), the justices had been guilty of a neglect in not appointing overseers within... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis - 1836 - 900 páginas
...law, bound to take; Com. Dig. Allegiance (B. 1.). Lord Mansfield, in Rex v. Loxdale (c), distinguishes between " circumstances which are of the essence of...act of parliament, and clauses merely directory;" and Baylcy J., in Rex v. Corfe Mullen (d), says of swearing in an officer, that it " may be rendered... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1838 - 338 páginas
...whole proceeding. In Rex v. Loxdale (k), Lord Mansfield, C. J., siid, " there is a known distinction between circumstances which are of the essence of...act of Parliament, and clauses merely directory." Secondly. The recognizance entered into by the petitioners was defective in two particulars. First,... | |
| Graham Willmore, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Henry Davison - 1839 - 810 páginas
...were not compulsory. In Rex v. Loxdale (I), Lord Mansfield observed, " There is a known distinction between circumstances which are of the essence of...precise time in many cases is not of the essence. On this principle the 54 Geo. 3, c. 84, with respect to the time of holding quarter sessions, was,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile - 1839 - 762 páginas
...that when the time is not essential such a clause is merely directory. " There is a known distinction between circumstances which are of the essence of...precise time, in many cases, is not of the essence;" Rex v. Loxdale (b). So on the act 54 Geo. 3, c. 84, which enacts that the quarter sessions shall be... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1839 - 728 páginas
...that when the time is not essential such a clause is merely directory. " There is a known distinction between circumstances which are of the essence of...precise time, in many cases, is not of the essence;" Rex v. Loxdaie (6). So on the act 54 Geo. 3, c. 84, which enacts that the quarter sessions shall be... | |
| Ireland. Court of King's Bench - 1840 - 448 páginas
...of Leicester, (b) • they are merely directory, not mandatory, and " there is a known distinction between circumstances which "are of the essence of...act of parlia"ment, and clauses merely directory;" per Lord Mansfield, in Retv. Loxdale (c) ; so here, the taking down of the examinations is not the... | |
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