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The law of marriage in its bearing on morality
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
Both Church and State have the highest reasons for endeavouring to regulate the laws and customs regarding marriage as it is so intimately connected with morality and property.
In all Christian times those who had the ...
The manufactures of the United States
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
The census of the United States is of a much more comprehensive character than that of the United Kingdom. In addition to the collection of facts regarding the people, it includes an inquiry into the wealth of the nation. ...
On the report of the Select Committee appointed ?to enquire and report whether any and what steps ought to be taken to simplify the title to land, and to facilitate the transfer thereof, and to prevent frauds on purchasers and mortgagees of land?, and on the first report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed ?to enquire into the law relating to the registration of deeds and assurances in Ireland?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
To simplify the title to land and facilitate the transfer thereof must always be a subject of much interest in this country, where so large a proportion of the wealth of the inhabitants consists of land. I will therefore ...
Statistics on points raised by Mrs. O?Connell?s and Miss Smedley's papers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)
As I withdrew a Poor-law paper on the list to make way for Miss Smedley's paper, I wish to give only so much of the statistics as bears on the points raised by Mrs. O'Connell's and Miss Smedley's papers.
Report of a local committee as to the best means of diminishing vice and crime in Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
In respect of marriage, the law draws a clear line for the protection of minors under twenty-one years of age. By Lord Hardwicke's famous Act against clandestine marriages, Parliament lays down the principle that they are ...
Address at the opening of the thirty-fourth session of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
It can scarcely be hoped that the address you are about to hear will secure approval for the Council in their choice of President, for it will deal with only one of the three branches into which the business of the Society ...
Baronial guarantees under ?The Tramways Act, 1883?.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1884)
Anyone who has watched the progress of business at the last spring assizes in Ireland, must have been struck by the interest exhibited in, and the time and attention devoted to the question of the construction of tramways ...
Work and the workman: an address to the Trades' Union Congress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
I believe I am indebted for the privilege of addressing you today to the impression produced on the minds of some of your leaders by a discourse which I delivered at a recent meeting of the British Association for the ...
A review of some of the subjects in the report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1885)
A review of some of the subjects in the Report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland has appeared to me a subject well worthy of consideration before this Society, dealing as it does with social problems of vast ...
What the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland has effected (1847-1880)
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
Without referring to the dissemination of sound statistical knowledge and a knowledge of Political Economy, and the correction of erroneous impressions, and the saving of waste of capital by discouraging such enterprises ...