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Table of Public As, paffed 46 Geo. 
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Aas relating to the CONSTITUTION < 
3. MILITARY. ©. 
PREMIAL. 46 G. III. c. 4. 
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C. 4.0. 
INDEMNITY. 46G. III. c.7. 
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OF REvENUB, UT dors sts 
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COMMERCIAL, 46G.III. ¢, 10. 
14. 
16. 
cA 17. ° 
29. 
30. 
34 
civiL. 46 G, III. c. 25. 
General. 
New Aiis of the Britifh Legiflature. 
Ill. from Feb. 7, to May 23, Sake 
Cc. 290 
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PENAL. 46G, 3.¢. 28. 
G.HI.c. 18. 
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38. 
39. 
426 
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43. 
3. LOAN. 6. 6. eee 
26. Ben 
MISCELLANEOUS. 46 G. II. c. 29. 
SIISPENSION. 46 
REGULAiION. 
2. TAXATION, 
ABSTRACT. 
Of thefe the firft is that part of the 
Mifcellaneous A& 49 G. III. c. 29. 
which continues an Aét of the 33 G. III. 
e. 76. whereby Courts of Judicature were 
eftablifhed in the Ifland of Newfoundland, 
to 25 Mar. 1809. © 
Thefe were courts of criminal jurifdic- 
tion to hold plea in like manner as by the 
Jaws of England : of civil jurifdiétion, to 
hold plea in a fummary way : the Surro- 
gate Court to be the name of the civil, 
and the Supreme Court of Judicature that 
of the criminal. ‘The civil alfo to deter- 
mine 2s near as circumftances would ad- 
mit to the laws of England. 
Juries were eftablifhed in the civil court 
in actions exceeding 4os. 
A Vice-Admiralty Court was alfo ap- 
pointed by the act. 
‘The next aé& of judicial regulation re- 
lates to our ewn country. This is 46 
Gu-3s Es 37 
This act is intituled 
s* An A&G to declare the Law with refpeé& to 
Witneffes refufing to anfwer.” 
This act applies, however, only to one 
of the two great points concerning which 
the Judges have been divided. 
It recites, that doubts have arifen wie. 
ther a witnefs can, by law, refufe to an- 
{wer a queftion relevant to the matter in 
iffue, the anfwer to which has no tendency 
to accufe himfelf, or to expofe him to any 
penalty or forfeiture, but the anfwering of 
which may eltablith, or tend to eltablifh, 
that he owes a debe, or is otherwife fub- 
ject to accivil fuit. 
And it declares and enacts, eit a wit- 
nefs cannot by law refule to anfwer fuch 
queftion on the fole ground that the an- 
fwering of fuch queftien may eftablifh, or 
tend to eftablith, that he owes a debt, or 
is otherwife liabletoacivil fuit.  —Ss_ 
As great judges have differed upon this 
point, and as, Till sible it feemed not te 
be 
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