The Law of the Government of Tonga

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authority, 1907 - Constitutions - 174 pages
 

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Page 144 - ... dollars, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months.
Page 160 - ... or in the discretion of the court to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding one month.
Page 133 - ... are hereby prohibited to be imported or brought into the United Kingdom, save as thereby excepted, and if any goods so enumerated and described shall be imported or brought into the United Kingdom contrary to the prohibitions or restrictions contained therein, such goods shall be forfeited, and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Commissioners of Customs may direct.
Page 137 - Acts, any dispute shall arise whether the duties of Customs have been paid in respect of such goods, or whether the same have been lawfully imported or lawfully unshipped, or concerning the place from whence such goods were brought, then and in every such case the proof thereof shall be on the defendant in such prosecution...
Page 70 - Any employer, steward, or manager employing and permitting to be employed any person in contravention of this section shall on conviction be liable to a fine of not less than fifty pounds for each such contravention, and one-half of all fines so imposed shall be paid...
Page 160 - Whosoever, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the party accused...
Page 163 - Peace until one Calendar Month at least after a Notice in Writing of such intended Action shall have been delivered to him, or left for him at his usual place of abode, by the party intending to commence such Action, or by his Attorney or Agent, in which said notice the cause of Action, and the Court in which the same is intended to be brought, shall be clearly and explicitly stated...
Page 46 - Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide.
Page 135 - Will. 4, c. 52, s. 50, it is enacted, that all foreign goods derelict, jetsam, flotsam, and wreck, brought or coming into the United Kingdom, or into the Isle of Man, shall at all times be subject to the same duties as goods of the like kind imported into the United Kingdom respectively are subject to...
Page 130 - ... as may be incurred shall be a lien upon such vessel. The master of a vessel who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

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