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Highway law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A bill to repeal an Act, passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of King George the Second, for enlarging the term and powers of several Acts passed for amending the road from Gloucester to Stone, and other roads in the said Acts mentioned; so far as the same relate to the road from the city of Gloucester to the nine mile stone on the Bristol Road, at or near a place called the Clay Pits, in the county of Gloucester; and for granting other powers for amending the said road.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1779]- Books
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The new universal parish officer. Containing all the laws now in force, relating to parish business, ranged in alphabetical order. Very proper for attornies, constables, churchwardens, Justices of the Peace, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways, Headboroughs, Tidingmen, Sidesmen, Vestrymen, and all Persons in Office, who would gain a competent Knowledge of this Branch of the Law, so as to enable them to discharge their respective Duties with Ease and Expedition. It is also very proper for every Housekeeper and Inhabitance who is desirous of being perfectly acquainted with the Laws relating to Parishes, that he may not entirely rely upon the Skill of Parish Officers, who are but too frequently un-acquainted with some material Part of their Duty. This Work is entirely freed from the Errors, Obscurities, and Repetitions of former Writers on this Subject. Collected from the common, statute, and other authentic law-books. Interspersed with many useful precedents. The fourth edition, corrected, and containing almost twice as much Matter as any other Book of the Kind; with the Addition of the Four Acts of Parliament made in the last Session, concerning the Highways and Turnfike-Roads. By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Gentleman of the Middle Temple.Date: 1774- Books
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A bill for continuing the term and powers of an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His Late Majesty, intituled, An act for repairing the road from Doncaster, through the Parish of Peniston, in the county of York, to Salter's Brook, in the county of Chester; and also the road from Rotherham, in the said county of York, to Hartcliffe Hill, in the said Parish of Peniston; and for making the said act more effectual, so far as the same relates to the said road from Rotherham to Hartcliffe Hill.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1762]- Books
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Highways: a treatise, shewing the hardships and inconveniencies of presenting, or indicting parishes, towns, &c. for not repairing the highways. And offering several material additions, and amendments to the laws now in being, for the better, and more effectual Repairing of the same. By John Shapleigh, Esq; Barrister at Law.
Shapleigh, John.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An act to explain and amend an Act, passed in the fourteenth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the county of Middlesex; and for building a workhouse; and for purchasing a piece of land for a burial ground, for the use of the said parish.
Great Britain.Date: 1775