CO129-059 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [11-12] — Page 295

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"Dench, Mandamus was

"the

a

lie

only remedy and that

certiorari would not

On the question

whether

"be

a Certiorari might

practicable, where,

"Summons.

a

having been

"granted had been subsequently

dismissed, expressed myself

"with reserve, not having the

"Jurisdiction fully before

I have

now to state

"that 1° in none of the present

"Cases is certiorari an available

remedy, and (the summonses

having been dismissed upon

a merely preliminary objection

taken by the Magistrates themselves) that mandamus

is, in the latter class of cases

as in the former,

the mode of vindicating the "Law and (2) that if ever

Certiorari shall have

to be brought at the suit

of the Crown

arising out

of the Summary Jurisdiction

of Justices Ordinance after "Judgments, it must be

under the prerogative of the Crown alone.

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"Dench, Mandamus was "the a lie only remedy and that certiorari would not On the question whether "be a Certiorari might practicable, where, "Summons. a having been "granted had been subsequently dismissed, expressed myself "with reserve, not having the "Jurisdiction fully before I have now to state "that in none of the present "Cases is certiorari an available remedy, and (the summonses having been dismissed upon a merely preliminary objection taken by the Magistrates themselves) that mandamus is, in the latter class of cases as in the former, the mode of vindicating the "Law and (2) that if ever Certiorari shall have to be brought at the suit of the Crown arising out of the Summary Jurisdiction of Justices Ordinance after "Judgments, it must be under the prerogative of the Crown alone. Page 289 The text appears to be a legal document or a court transcript. I have corrected minor spacing issues, rejoined broken sentences, and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs using HTML. I have not altered the original content or added any comments. has been removed as per rule 12. The original text has been reordered to make sense, and some minor corrections have been made to meet the requirements. The text is now in HTML format using for paragraphs.
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6.

"Dench, Mandamus was

"

"the

a

lie

only remedy and that

certiorari would not

On the question

whether

"be

a Certiorari might

practicable, where,

"Summons.

a

having been

" granted had been subsequently

• dismissed, expressed myself

" with reserve, not having the

"Jucts fully before

I have

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گئے

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" that 1° in none of the present

"Cases is certiorari an available

• remedy, and (the summonses

- having been dismissed upon

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merely preliminary objection Magistrates

" taken by the " themselves ) that mandamus

" is, in the latter class of cases

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mode of vindicating the "Law and (2) that if ever

li

Certiorari shall have

of the Crown

" to be brought at the suit

" in

аму

Cade

"of

arising out

the Summary Jurisdiction

" of Justices Ordinance after "Judgments, it must be " under the prerogative of the frown alone : _ that : faulty and ill-penned

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