Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	case_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	1,918	5	10.3007	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93109	Of corporations, fraternities, and guilds. Or, a discourse, wherein the learning of the law touching bodies-politique is unfolded, shewing the use and necessity of that invention, the antiquity, various kinds, order and government of the same. Necessary to be known not only of all members and dependants of such bodies; but of all the professours of our common law. With forms and presidents, of charters of corporation. / By William Shepheard, serjeant at law.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1659 (1659)	Wing S3195; Thomason E1912_2; ESTC R203559	65,245	193

to time in perpetual future times have and shall have power and authority yearly and every year upon Wednesday next after to choose name two of themselves who shal be Overseers of the Bridge of the Village aforesaid And so throughout as in the choosing of the last Officers And moreover we will c. and grant to the said Guardians c. that if it happen any one or more of the Removal of an Officer or Member Burgesses of the Village aforesaid to die or otherwise to be removed or discharged from his or their office or offices of Burgesses of the village aforesaid who or whom or for his or their evil behaviour or being unfit c. as in the like case before that then and so often it shall and may be lawful for the Guardians of the Village aforesaid for the time being or the greater part of them and other or others of the Inhabitants of the Village aforesaid within 15 days then next following after the death removal or discharge of any such Burgess or Burgesses so dying or discharged into his or their place or places to choose and set up And that after he or they shal be so chosen that they take their oaths within 15 days before the Guardians c. and then that they shall execute the same office as long as they live unless they be removed by misbehaviour c. in the same manner as it was penned for the other Officers And moreover we will c. and grant to the said Guardians c. that they and their Successors from henceforth for ever shall and may have and hold within the Village aforesaid one Court of Record every 3d week through the year that is on the Wednesday of the said 3d week or oftner at their pleasure before the Guardians and Overseers of Court of Record the Bridge of the Village aforesaid or before two of them for the time being to be held And that in that Court they may hold Plea from time to time of all and all manner of Actions Suits and Demands of all and all manner of Trespasses By Force and Arms and of all other Trespasses faults and offences within the Village aforesaid the Limits or Precincts of the same made or committed or to be made moved or committed and of all and all manner of Trespasses upon the Case Debts Accounts Covenants Deceipts Detainers of Writings taking and detainers of Goods and Chattels and other Contracts whatsoever of or for any causes or things personal or mixt within the Village aforesaid the Limits Precincts and Liberties thereof arising or happening So as the Plaintiff or Defendant in such Actions Suits or Complaints be dwelling or abiding within the said village the Liberties or Precincts thereof And so as the same Debts Trespasses Accounts Covenants Contracts and other Actions personal or mixt singularly by themselves do not exceed the sum or value of 100 l. And that such Pleas Complaints and Actions personal and mixt shall be from time 10 time heard and determined before the said Guardians and Overseers of the Bridge of the said Village or two of them by such the like and such like process manner means and wayes as shall be suitable to our Laws of England and in as large and ample manner and form as in any of our Courts of Record in any other Corporate Village or Borough within England now or heretofore hath been is or ought to be used or accustomed And that the said Guardians and Overseers and their Successors or two of them upon every such Complaint Pleas Actions and Suits have and shall have power and authority over the persons Defendants and every of them against whom such Complaints Actions and Suits in the aforesaid Court shal be raised or moved to bring into Plea by Summons Attachment and Distress And for default of Land and Chattels of such Defendant within the Village aforesaid and the Bounds and Liberties thereof where or by which they may not be summoned attached or distrained by attachment or taking of their Bodies according to the custom in some other Villages incorporate and Burroughs within England is used And the' said Actions Suits and Pleas severally to hear and determine And by the like Process Judgment and Executions of Judgments to deduce and determine by which the like Pleas in any other incorporate Village or Borough within this of England are deduced and determined or have been used to be deduced or determined NOTES OF Another President OLIVER Lord Protector c. To all to whom these present Letters-Patents shall Recitals come c. Whereas the late King CHARLES by his Letters-Patents bearing date c. did incorporate the Town and Parish of L. in the County of W. And did ordain and constitute the same to be a free Borough consisting of sixe Aldermen ten Bergesses and twenty Assistants And therein did grant unto them divers Franchises Priviledges and Immunities as by the said Letters-Patents relation being thereunto had more at large may appear And whereas the Inhabitants of the said Town and Parish of L. by their humble Petition have represented unto us divers and manifold defects that were in the said Patent and humbly pray that for the removing of their grievances and better government of the said Town and Parish We will be pleased to grant a new Charter of Incorporation of the said Town and Parish to consist of a Maior twelve Aldermen and thirty Common-Cuuncel men with such other Alterations Additions and Clauses as We shall think fit We considering the Premises and willing for the future that a more firm certain and peaceable government may be established within the said town and Parish of L. Do of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer motion by these Presents will ordain grant and constitute that the aforesaid Town and Parish of L. from henceforth for ever may and shall be and is hereby made constituted and ordained to be for ever a free Borough of it self And that all the Houses and Buildings Lands Waters Water-courses Soyl and Ground scituate lying and being within the town and Parish of L. aforesaid from henceforth and for ever are and shall be within the Limits Meats Bounds and Jurisdictions of the said Burrough of L. And that all and singular the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of L. aforesaid and their Successors from henceforth and for ever may and shal be one Body-Corporate and Politike in Deed Action and Name of a Mayor and Aldermen of the Borough of L. in the County of W. And we do erect make ordain create constitute and declare for us and our Successors the same to be one Body-Corporate and Politike in Deed Action and Name really and fully by these Presents And that the said Maior and Aldermen and their Successors shall and may from henceforth for ever be Name the immediate Successors of the said Aldermen Burgesses of the Borough aforesaid And that by the same name of Maior and Aldermen