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Select Documents of English Constitutional History
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250.
Judicial Commissions Not to Cease on the Demise of the Crown
(1760. 1 George III. c. 13. 23 S. L. 292.)
* * * BE it enacted by the king’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all persons who were justices of the peace at the time of the demise of His said late Majesty king George the Second, or who shall be justices of the peace at the time of the demise of His present Majesty, or any of his successors, kings or queens of this realm, or shall afterwards be appointed justices of the peace by any commission granted, or which shall be granted, by his said present Majesty, or which, after his demise, shall be granted by any of his successors, kings or queens of this realm, and who shall take the oaths of office of a justice of the peace, for any county, city and county, town and county, riding, or division, before the clerk of the peace of the respective county, city and county, town and county, riding, or division, for which any such justice or justices of the peace shall act, or intend to act, or the deputy of such respective clerk of the peace, and who shall have taken and subscribed at some general or quarter sessions of the peace the said oath, by the said herein before in part recited act, of the eighteenth year of His said late Majesty’s reign, directed and required to be there taken and subscribed, shall and may act as a justice of the peace for such county, city and county, town and county, riding, or division, without being obliged to take and subscribe again the said oath, without incurring any penalty or forfeiture, for the not taking and subscribing thereof; the said herein before in part recited act, or any other statute, law, or usage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: and that all acts, matters, and things, done or to be done, by all and every suck justice and justices, or by authority derived, or to be derived, from him or them, are and shall be deemed and taken to all intents and purposes to be of the same force, effect, and validity, to all intents and purposes, as the same respectively would have been, if such person or persons had taken and subscribed such oath, by the said herein before in part recited act required to be taken and subscribed, at some general or quarter sessions for such county, city and county, town and county, riding or division, for which he or they did or should act, or intend to act.
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Chicago: "Judicial Commissions Not to Cease on the Demise of the Crown," Select Documents of English Constitutional History in Select Documents of English Constitutional History, ed. George Burton Adams (1851-1925) and Henry Morse Stephens (1857-1918) (New York: Macmillan Company, 1916), 492. Original Sources, accessed November 23, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2BT6KHI266Y7FKW.
MLA: . "Judicial Commissions Not to Cease on the Demise of the Crown." Select Documents of English Constitutional History, in Select Documents of English Constitutional History, edited by George Burton Adams (1851-1925) and Henry Morse Stephens (1857-1918), New York, Macmillan Company, 1916, page 492. Original Sources. 23 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2BT6KHI266Y7FKW.
Harvard: , 'Judicial Commissions Not to Cease on the Demise of the Crown' in Select Documents of English Constitutional History. cited in 1916, Select Documents of English Constitutional History, ed. , Macmillan Company, New York, pp.492. Original Sources, retrieved 23 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2BT6KHI266Y7FKW.
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