Browsing JSSISI: 1864 to 1868, Vol. IV, Parts XXVI to XXXIV by Date of Publication
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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: eighteenth session, opening to fourth meetings - 1864/65
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Appendix to the foregoing address [by the President, Hon. Judge Longfield, at the opening of the eighteenth session]
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1865)Some people say that no legislation ought to take place until it is called for by the landlords, who, from experience, ought to know the best way of managing their own properties, quieta non moveri, or in vulgar English, ... -
Address by the Vice-President at the opening of the Nineteenth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)That Association has endured for nearly twenty years, continually acquiring strength and influence. It has been a remarkable phenomenon in the social state of Ireland?remarkable, alike, in its action and in Its objects; ... -
Report to the council on the impediments to express contracts as to the occupation of land in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)The following Report has been prepared by direction of the Council, in consequence of an application from Jonathan Pim, Esq., M.P., Vice-President, to institute an inquiry into the following subject:? A Report as to the ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: nineteenth session 1865/1866, first to fourth meetings
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The unhealthiness of Irish towns, and the want of sanitary legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)In Waterford, Dr. Mackesy, and in Cork, Mr. W. d'E. Parker, have procured an expression of public opinion that a similar act is desirable in those cities, and I, being desirous that other towns should share the blessings ... -
Report of the council at the opening of the nineteenth session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)The Council, with much confidence, renew on this, the commencement of the nineteenth session of the Society, the congratulations offered to the members on many similar occasions. Taking an active and useful part in the ... -
Banking considered with special reference to a strictly limited issue of government paper money
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)I propose to bring under your consideration the subject of Banking with special reference to a strictly limited issue of Government Paper Money. -
A central criminal court for the county and city of Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)Previous to the year 1729 all serious offences, such as treasons or felonies committed in either the city or the county of Dublin, were triable only at the bar of the Court of King's Bench in term time, or under a special ... -
The financial position of Irish railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)Mr. William John Hancock exhibited the following Tables, compiled by Dr. Hancock, to shew the financial position of Irish Railways, and explained the views of Dr. Hancock in respect of the statistics thus shown. It ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: nineteenth session 1865/1866, fifth to seventh meetings
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Co-operation as a means of improving the condition of the working classes
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)I apprehend it will be admitted by all our members that few other subjects than the one which I have chosen are more important in their nature, or more in accordance with the purposes for which our Association was ... -
Report of the Council at the opening of the Twentieth Session
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)At the commencement of this, the Twentieth Session of our Society, we feel much pleasure in congratulating you on its continued progress, and the success which has attended its efforts in promoting the great social and ... -
The condition of our railways considered with reference to their purchase by the state
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)The condition of the Railways of Great Britain and Ireland has for the past few years increasingly occupied public attention. It has caused much dissatisfaction both to the public and to the shareholders?to the public ... -
The propriety of conceding the elective franchise to women
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)The question of the propriety of conceding the elective franchise to women is now occupying a share of public attention in England, and as I am not aware that it has been discussed by this Society, I purpose drawing ... -
The application of commercial enterprise to the construction of railways
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)At a late meeting of the Society Dr. Hancock exhibited a very suggestive table, showing the unsatisfactory financial position of Irish Railways. It must have occurred to many at the time that a similar table of the ...