The Practice of the Law in All Its Departments: With a View of Rights, Injuries, and Remedies, and as Ameliorated by Recent Statutes, Rules, and Decisions ... and the Practice in Arbitrations; Before Justices; in Courts of Common Law; Equity; Ecclasiastical and Spiritual; Admiralty; and Courts of Appeal. With New Practical Forms. Intended as a Court and Circuit Companion, Volume 4London, H. Butterworth, 1838 - Civil procedure |
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... evidence 6. Fault of jury ... 1. Verdict against weight of evidence 2. Verdict against law 3. Tossing up or mistake of jury 4. False or mistaken testimony 5. Nonconcurrence of one juror 7. When new trial not granted in general Absence ...
... evidence 6. Fault of jury ... 1. Verdict against weight of evidence 2. Verdict against law 3. Tossing up or mistake of jury 4. False or mistaken testimony 5. Nonconcurrence of one juror 7. When new trial not granted in general Absence ...
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... Evidence . The former are tendered either to the evidence , or to the judge's observations , or directions , or summing up to the jury . The latter will presently be fully examined . All practitioners should well ascertain and consider ...
... Evidence . The former are tendered either to the evidence , or to the judge's observations , or directions , or summing up to the jury . The latter will presently be fully examined . All practitioners should well ascertain and consider ...
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... evidence upon the trial of a cause ; but inasmuch as , from the nice and complicated na- ture of such rules , the best of judges may be sometimes liable to err , by improperly rejecting or receiving any particular spe- cies of evidence ...
... evidence upon the trial of a cause ; but inasmuch as , from the nice and complicated na- ture of such rules , the best of judges may be sometimes liable to err , by improperly rejecting or receiving any particular spe- cies of evidence ...
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... Evidence is to be determined by the Court out of which the record was sent . This happens where a re- cord or other matter is produced in evidence , concerning the legal consequences or effects of which there arises a doubt in law , in ...
... Evidence is to be determined by the Court out of which the record was sent . This happens where a re- cord or other matter is produced in evidence , concerning the legal consequences or effects of which there arises a doubt in law , in ...
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... evidence and joinder . At all events , when a coun- sel finds that the presiding judge is influ- enced by an erroneous view of the law affecting the rights of the parties , or of the evidence that has been adduced , and therefore ...
... evidence and joinder . At all events , when a coun- sel finds that the presiding judge is influ- enced by an erroneous view of the law affecting the rights of the parties , or of the evidence that has been adduced , and therefore ...
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Page 140 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 115 - AB as for his costs and charges by him, about his suit in that behalf expended...
Page 69 - ... shall have been in possession or receipt of the entirety, or more than his or their undivided share or shares of such land or of the profits thereof, or of such rent, for his or their own benefit, or for the benefit of any person or persons other than the person or persons entitled to the other share or shares of the same land or rent, such possession or receipt shall not be deemed to have been the possession or receipt of or by such lastmentioned person or persons, or any of them.
Page 104 - ... that an action of trespass, or trespass on the case, as the case may be, may be maintained against the executors or administrators of any persons deceased, for any wrong committed by him in his life-time, to another, in respect of his property, real or personal...
Page 116 - AB by a reasonable price and extent, all the goods and chattels of the said CD in your bailiwick, except his oxen and beasts of the plough...
Page 36 - Signed, sealed, published and Declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
Page 135 - The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Administrator of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits...
Page 225 - ... by his body, until he shall have made satisfaction for the said contempt ; and how you shall execute this our precept notify unto and in nowise omit this, and have you there this writ. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the day of in the year of our reign.
Page 32 - A new trial is a rehearing of the cause before another jury, but with as little prejudice to either party, as if it had never been heard before.
Page 70 - AND be it further enacted, that when the person from whom the descent of any land is to be traced shall have had any relation who, having been attainted, shall have died before such descent shall have taken place, then such attainder shall not prevent any person from inheriting such land who would have been capable of inheriting the same by tracing his descent through such relation, if he had -not been attainted, unless such land shall have escheated in consequence of such attainder before the first...