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STATUTES NOT FOUND APPLICABLE.
CHAP. 32. Wool.
CHAP. 34. An act for prohibiting the planting,
selling or sowing of tobacco in England or Ireland. |
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13 Charles 2, St. 1.--A. D. 1661.
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STATUTES.
CHAP. 5. An act against tumults and disorders
upon pretence of preparing or presenting
public petitions or other addresses to his majesty
or the parliament.
CHAP. 10. Deer stealers.
CHAP. 12. Ecclesiastical persons. |
NOTES.
CHAP. 5. See 4 Bl. Com. 147, as to the cause
of making this statute and the provisions which it
contained. It could not have been literally complied
with in the province, and was in no respect
applicable to the circumstances of the people. In
the case of the king and lord George Gordon, reported
in Douglass (569) the court determined
that this statute had not been repealed by the 5th
article of the bill of rights, 1 W. and M. declaring
that it was the right of the subjects to petition
the king, and that all commitments and prosecutions
for such petitioning were illegal. It will be
observed that by our declaration of rights, which
in some articles is copied verbatim from that of
W. and M. it is provided in the 11th article, that
every man hath a right to petition the legislature
for the redress of grievances, in a peacable and
orderly manner.
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13 Charles 2, St. 2.--A. D. 1661.
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STATUTES.
CHAP. 1. Corporations.
CHAP. 2. An act for preventing of vexations
and oppressions by arrests, and of delays in suits
of law. |
NOTES.
CHAP. 2. The 2d section of this statute which
is the most important to be considered, does not
appear to have extended to the province, from
what I have observed of the practice. But some
provision on this subject appears to be necessary,
both as to defendants and sheriffs.
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