Steam Engine Furnaces Act, 1821
STEAM ENGINE FURNACES ACT 1821 | ||
CHAPTER XLI. | ||
An Act for giving greater facility in the Prosecution and abatement of Nuisances arising from Furnaces used and in the working of Steam Engines. [28th May 1821.] | ||
Court may award costs in case of conviction on indictment for nuisance from furnaces of steam engines. | ||
Whereas great inconvenience has arisen, and a great degree of injury has been and is now sustained by his Majesty’s subjects in various parts of the United Empire, from the improper construction as well as from the negligent use of furnaces employed in the working of engines by steam: And whereas by law every such nuisance, being of a public nature, is abateable as such by indictment; but the expence attending the prosecution thereof has deterred parties suffering thereby from seeking the remedy given by law: Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for the court, by which judgment ought to be pronounced in case of conviction on any such indictment, to award such costs as shall be deemed proper and reasonable to the prosecutor or prosecutors, to be paid by the party or parties so convicted as aforesaid; such award to be made either before or at the time of pronouncing final judgment, as to the court may seem fit. |