New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords: On Appeals and Writs of Error, Volume 2

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Page 159 - He that in obedience to this command of God subdued, tilled, and sowed any part of it, thereby annexed to it something that was his property, which another had no title to, nor could without injury take from him.
Page 150 - ... was seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in the manor of North...
Page 34 - At the time of such dissolution all monevs in the hands of or to the credit of the commission shall be divided into two equal parts, one of which shall be paid to said Illinois interests and the other to said Indiana interests.
Page 541 - ... the same, when lodged, to the Auditor of Court, to tax and to report.
Page 354 - Y. for a term of five hundred years without impeachment of waste on the trusts hereinafter declared and subject thereto to the use of the first and other sons of John M.
Page 217 - All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate and effects of what nature or kind soever and whether real or personal, and all my plate, china, linen and other utensils, which I shall be possessed of interested in or entitled to at the time of my decease, subject to and after payment of all my just debts, funeral expenses and charges of proving my will and specific legacies, I give to my worthy friend Samuel Howard for his own use and benefit ; and I do appoint him my executor.
Page 352 - ... to the use of himself for life, remainder to the use of his wife for life, remainder to the use of his daughter for life, remainder to her first and other sons in tail, reversion to his own right heirs.
Page 512 - It is ordered and adjudged, by the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled, that the said...
Page 317 - ... master, which report was confirmed by the court; and we are met on the threshold by the objection that the exceptions taken in the Circuit Court were not sufficiently specific to entitle appellants to raise the questions here upon which they submit argument. These exceptions are as follows :
Page 290 - B. for life, remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male, remainder to the future sons of C.