The Mauritius Almanac and Colonial Register

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E.Dupuy & P. Dubois, 1872
 

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Seite 160 - ... in order to defeat and delay his creditors, to direct from time to time that the plaintiff shall be at liberty to proceed in the action in such manner and subject to such conditions as to such court or judge may seem fit, having regard to the time allowed for the defendant to appear being reasonable, and to the other circumstances of the case...
Seite 158 - A statutory alien to whom a certificate of re-admission to British nationality has been granted shall, from the date of the certificate of re-admission, but not in respect of any previous transaction, resume his position as a British subject ; with this qualification, that within the limits of the foreign State of which he became a subject he shall not be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that foreign State according to the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a Treaty...
Seite 105 - Indecent or obscene prints, paintings, books, cards, lithographic or other engravings, or any other indecent or obscene articles.
Seite 117 - ... but that every person so offered may and shall be admitted to give evidence on oath or solemn affirmation in those cases wherein affirmation is by law receivable, notwithstanding that such person may or shall have an interest in the matter in question, or in the event of the trial of any issue, matter, question, or injury, or of the suit, action, or proceeding in which he is offered as a witness, and notwithstanding that such person offered as a witness may have been previously convicted of any...
Seite xvii - Island is about 480,744,002 square toises or 432,680 arpents (200 Fr. feet square) of 100 perches of 20 feet. The only systematic triangulation of Mauritius ever made was that by the celebrated practical Astronomer, Abbé de la Caille, in 1753. La Caille after finishing the measurement of an Arc of the Meridian at the Cape of Good Hope which till lately has had such weight in the determination of the earth's figure was sent on by the Government of France to determine the Latitude and Longitude of...
Seite 105 - MOLASSES, being the produce or manufacture of any British possession within the limits of the East India Company's charter.

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