Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Where the provisions of the principal subject are applicable to the subordinate, with few and welldefined exceptions, the best mode would seem to be to pursue the principal subject to its end without regard to the subordinate subject, and then to introduce a clause applying the provisions of the principal to the subordinate subject with certain exceptions. 32 & 33 Vict. For example, the provisions of the Bishops c. 111. Resignation Act, 1869, were drawn as if they related only to English bishoprics, although it was intended from the first to extend them to the bishopric of Sodor and Man and to archbishoprics. This application to the two subordinate subjects of the provisions relating to the principal subject is made by sect. 11 in the case of Sodor and Man as follows: "This Act shall apply to the bishopric "of Sodor and Man in the same manner "in all respects as if it were a bishopric "in England, with the following excep"tions: "(1) If," &c. "(2) If," &c. "(3) The Bishop of Sodor and Man "shall not," &c. And in the case of the archbishoprics by sect. 12 as follows: "A bishop coadjutor may be appointed "in the case of an archbishop being "incapacitated by reason of permanent "mental infirmity from the due per"formance of his duties, in the same "manner in all respects as if such arch"bishop were a bishop and his archbishopric a bishopric, and all the "provisions of this Act shall apply "accordingly, with the following addi"tions and exceptions: G "(1) That," &c. "(2) That," &c. "(3) That," Sec. On a similar principle, the sixth and seventh 25 & 26 vict. parts of the...