This is in spite of the fact that no licences are required for selling beer and spirits.
It does not hold pleas in any suits, but has power to grant licences or dispensations, such as, to marry without banns, or to remove bodies previously buried.
But it is clear that he used all thelicences detailed above.
Godric uses all these and applies to them the licences of native prosody, elision, slurring, omission, and doubling of light syllables.
Licences were obtained too easily,[1242] and not sufficiently insisted upon, and evening marriages were by no means unknown.
The trusts of their meeting-houses were in many instances so framed, and their licences so taken out, that the buildings could easily be transferred to Church uses.
No; I think there are licencesin North Roe and Ollaberry as well as here.
I think there is only one public-house in the mainland of Shetland outside of Lerwick, but there are several places holding grocers' licenceswhere the men can buy liquor.
The argument so often heard against stopping licences is that then more illicit drinking will ensue, but this does not convince me that the redundant licences should be renewed.
Poetry is always congenial to an Irishman, probably because it has licences almost as great as he likes to take, and has a vague, irresponsible way of putting things, much akin to his own methods.
My remedy would be to increase all renewals of licences to fifty pounds apiece, and to apply the difference as compensation to unrenewed licences.
Reference to the London Gazette proves that Royal licences have hitherto been constantly issued from capricious motives, and on no fixed principle whatever.
It is difficult to conceive more trifling grounds than these on which royal licences have been granted in the above-quoted instances.
Last of all, there are twenty-three wine merchants, who take out expensive licences from the company, for the sale of spirits off the premises.
During recent years it has become more and more common for brewers to own public-houses, and to make the holders of the licences nominees of their own, dismissable at will.
It might be thought that it is hardly to the interest of the brewers to risk losing the licences in order to do a somewhat larger trade; but those who argue thus are not acquainted with the working of the law.
It at once and for ever swept away all claims of a legal right to compensation, and showed that vested interests in licences are absolutely nonexistent.
The leading principles of it were as follows: The licensing powers were to still be retained by the magistrates, and no liquor licences were to be issued without their certificates.
The licences would again be put up for sale for another ten years, and the same process would be repeated at the end of each decade.
The duty of the Chancellor in the granting of licences was defined more rigidly by the Fourth Lateran Council of 1179.
This fact seems to have been so generally known that it is rarely expressed in the licences authorising the foundation.
Fortunately, however, there still survives a lengthy deed,[460] dated the day after the licences to which we have referred were granted.
The custom continues, even to the present day, because the degrees in Arts and Theology in our oldest universities are in reality merely licences issued by the Chancellor of the University to teach those subjects.
In course of time, apparently, some chancellors saw in this granting of licencesto teach to approved teachers an opportunity of exacting fees.
Licences are not to be regarded as ordinary private property, but as public property which ought never to have been alienated from the State.
But we decline to regard licences or land on the same footing as ordinary property.
We take the view that land cannot be regarded as an ordinary commodity, nor are we prepared to place publicans' licences in the same position as ordinary property.
Licences (each of which is subject to a duty and is impressed with a stamp of L5, and 10s.
The maximum period for which a licence may be granted is two years, but licences may be renewed by the licensing authority on payment of a stamp duty of the same amount as on the original grant.
Presuming that Younge's statement is at all within the mark, it will account for the effort put forth at the London sessions in 1654, wherein it was ordered that 'no new licences shall be granted for two years.
That a list of such licences shall be kept at the Excise office, open to the inspection of the magistrates.
That renewals of beer-house licences before 1879 should be placed on the same footing as those of public-houses.
That justices should be authorised to refuse transfers on the same grounds of misconduct as those on which renewals of licences are now refused.
But a panic set in, and Mr. Bruce was obliged to withdraw, and a suspensory measure preventing the issue of any fresh licences for the next year, was introduced by Sir R.
That in cases of decisions affecting the renewal of licences in boroughs having separate quarter sessions, the appeal shall be to the Recorder, where there is one, and not to the county justices.
The distinctions as to licenceslead to evasion of the law.
In 1743, the Lords read a Bill for repealing certain Duties on Spirituous Liquors and on Licences for retailing the same.
Licences to be granted only from year to year, at a special session of magistrates; with power of applicant to appeal to the quarter sessions in case of refusal of licence: and the refusing justices not to vote there.
Since 1695 the licences have been regularly kept, and the fee for searching is a shilling.
The licences he took were coarse, and had not sufficient regard to his company.
The convoys at anchor there consisted of ships under various neutral flags, which had licences from Government.
Everything being now adjusted to the satisfaction of both Governments, the trade was carried on by means of licences to the ports in Russia and Prussia, while the Swedish coasters and packets met with no interruption.
By another bull, he was empowered to grant licences to such as he thought proper to read the heretical works of Martin Luther, in order that some able man, having read them, might refute them.
It was announced that the Privy Council had granted licencesfor the sale of store sheep at Tombland Fair, on March 2nd.
Since then he had issued licences to persons to remove mussels from the foreshore, and had leased it to Harding, who had found the defendant carrying mussels away.
But the privilege of peers to grant licences to itinerant players, given by statute 14 Eliz.
But he has many unwarrantable licences in his metre, and even false quantities, as is common to the great majority of these Latin versifiers.
The reasonableness of demanding that local wishes shall control the issue of licences is proved by the facts adduced, and the justice is equally capable of being shown.
As to its being reasonable, the very fact that the granting of licences even now is in the hands of the magistrates, and not in those of a Government department, indicates that it is intended that local feeling shall be consulted.
If a locality determines that no fresh licences shall be granted, or that certain old ones shall be taken away, no more injustice will be done than if the magistrates under the present system did the like.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "licences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
