Meanings of read the act in English

The arriving drivers and passengers craned their necks to read the act of vandalism.

By these lights of his character she read the act.

When the Empress entered, Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angely read the act of separation.

The Clerk read the act of accusation; it was the hollowest sham the Court had ever heard so far.

When Mr. Woodward, pastor of the Norwich church, read the act establishing the Saybrook Platform, he omitted the proviso.

I wonder if she has read the act that declares my mother dead with the care that my mother did.

Sir Robert WALPOLE then desired that the clerk might read the act, in which the clause was accordingly found, and Mr. SOUTHWELL withdrew his motion.

The judge said to the clerk, Read the Act of Accusation.

In other words, we must read the Act thus:-

The intrepid tzar sprang at Zoubow, who was reading the act, and cuffed his ears.

Employers that register their employees are protected against civil claims in this regard, reads the Act.

Afterward they read the acts and they saw that Tirant had been the best of all the knights.

The professor should read the Act.

Are we to surmise that the people at BUPA did not read the Act before putting forward their proposals?

In the morning we read the Acts in course; and as each read a verse, my father asked its meaning.

After dinner I fell to read the Acts about the building of the City again;