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On the patent laws of the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
Our system of Patent Law has lately attracted much attention. Within a few years there have been several parliamentary commissions to investigate its principles; and the utility of such a system is one of the acknowledged ...
The differences between the statutes bearing on public health for England and Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
No medical practitioner who has treated disease in this country, especially in its populous towns, can have failed to observe the insufficiency of our present legal enactments towards its prevention. Upon me this conviction ...
The venue for trials, civil and criminal
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
To secure a full, fair, and impartial trial of such issues as, for the adjustment of personal disputes, or for the protection of public rights, it may become necessary to decide, is surely an object to which, in the interests ...
Abstract of a paper on "Railway reform, or the policy of the purchase and management by the British Government of the railways of the United Kingdom"
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
Several passages were quoted from a valuable treatise by Mr. William Galt, of London, printed originally for private circulation, but now about to be published, which advocates the policy of having all the railways of the ...
Observations on the law relating to the qualification and selection of jurors, with suggestions for its amendment
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
I propose in this paper briefly to direct attention to the expediency and necessity of some amendment being made in the law with reference to the qualification and selection of jurors; and, with that view, to submit some ...
Report of the Council at the opening of the eighteenth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
The review of the past session of the Society affords abundant matter for congratulation, and permits of the council to indulge in sanguine anticipations for that which is to-night inaugurated.
The functions of grand juries in criminal cases
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
The various branches of our criminal procedure are necessarily closely interwoven. The necessity or the usefulness of a particular step in the complex process by which criminals are brought to justice, is often dependent ...
Abstract of a paper on "Railway reform"
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
The paper was intended to show the powers vested in the nation of purchasing up the railways of the United Kingdom constructed
since 1844, and the arguments which have been advanced to induce the public to exercise those powers.
Abstract of paper 'On the dwellings of working men in cities, and the efforts that have been made to improve them'
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
I have undertaken to bring forward this subject, not that I hope
to state anything which shall be new, but because the subject appears
one which should no longer be overlooked by this Society.
On strikes with respect to hours of labour
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)
In old times, when business of all kinds was carried on in small establishments, the hours of labour were regulated by the hours kept by the employer and his family, who generally resided at the place of business, and ...