Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, Volumes 11-15 |
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Page 91 - Successors shall be able and capable in Law to take, purchase, and hold, to them and their Successors, any goods, chattels...
Page 89 - Faisons l'homme à notre image et à notre ressemblance, et qu'il domine sur les poissons de la mer, sur les oiseaux du ciel, sur les animaux, sur toute la terre et sur tous les reptiles qui rampent sur la terre.
Page 91 - Body Politic shall have perpetual succession, and shall have a Common Seal, and shall by the same Name sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and answer and be answered unto, in every Court of Us, our Heirs, and Successors.
Page 94 - By-Laws, Rules and Orders, touching and concerning the good government of the said Corporation, and the income and property thereof, and any other matter or thing...
Page 70 - ... inches in diameter. A gummy secretion exudes from the apex of these, which secretion doubtless arrests and secures the pollen necessary for their fecundation. The fruit-stalk is supported by three very strong bracts; the outer one of these, the top of which is wedge-shaped, penetrates the stalk of the leaf immediately above it, in the under side of which nature has left a fissure accessible to it. By this provision the stalk is enabled to support the weight of fruit which hangs upon it, sometimes...
Page 69 - ... aperture. These contain such a succession of stamens in progressive, stages of development, that the flowering is maintained for eight or ten years, each successive set of stamens thrusting off and replacing that which preceded it. The female blossoms spring from a strong stem which forms a regular zigzag, the flowers being on the angles. The flowers...
Page 93 - Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows to act in such manner as shall appear to them best calculated to promote the purposes intended by the...
Page 62 - The horizontal extension of some vertical dykes is very great — the fissure occupied by the lava having probably been opened by degrees to farther distances. In the great Icelandic eruption of Skaptar Jokul in 1783, lava was emitted consecutively at several points on a linear range of 200 miles. No doubt an underground fissure of this length at least was injected with lava by that eruption, and remains now as a dyke traversing the substrata...
Page 92 - Provided further that it shall not be lawful for the said University to alienate mortgage charge or demise any lands tenements or hereditaments of which it shall have become...
Page 91 - Colony and shall be capable in law to take purchase and hold all goods chattels and personal property whatsoever and shall also be able and capable in law to receive take purchase and hold for ever not only such lands buildings hereditaments and possessions as may from time to time be exclusively used and occupied by the immediate requirements of the said University but also any other lands buildings hereditaments and possessions whatsoever situated in the said Colony...