A Compendious Law Dictionary: Containing Both an Explanation of the Terms and the Law Itself : Intended for the Use of the Country Gentleman, the Merchant, and the Professional Man |
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... issue accept the rent , it shall bind him . Should such tenant in tail make a lease for years to commence after his death , rendering rent ; in such case , acceptance of rept by the issue , will not ་ make the lease good to bar him ...
... issue accept the rent , it shall bind him . Should such tenant in tail make a lease for years to commence after his death , rendering rent ; in such case , acceptance of rept by the issue , will not ་ make the lease good to bar him ...
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... issue against such sub - accountants , who are to account to the ordnance , navy , vic- tualling , or sick and hurt offices , without directions from the trea- sury . — When sub - accountants transmit a discharge from such offices ...
... issue against such sub - accountants , who are to account to the ordnance , navy , vic- tualling , or sick and hurt offices , without directions from the trea- sury . — When sub - accountants transmit a discharge from such offices ...
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... issue to compel the account . s . 17. - Comptrollers of army ac- counts may examine the accounts of commissaries , and others for mi- litary expenditures ( except ordnance ) , and the exchequer may fine persons refusing so to account ...
... issue to compel the account . s . 17. - Comptrollers of army ac- counts may examine the accounts of commissaries , and others for mi- litary expenditures ( except ordnance ) , and the exchequer may fine persons refusing so to account ...
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... issue of an English woman by an alien , born abroad , is an alien . . 4 Durnf . and East . 400 . Aliens can have no heirs , because they have not in them any in- heritable blood . 2 Black . 249 . All persons being natural born subjects ...
... issue of an English woman by an alien , born abroad , is an alien . . 4 Durnf . and East . 400 . Aliens can have no heirs , because they have not in them any in- heritable blood . 2 Black . 249 . All persons being natural born subjects ...
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... issue commissions of array , directed to the prin cipal persons in the respective districts , to muster and array all the men capable of bearing arms . Array is also applied to a jury , as set in order by the sheriff in his return of ...
... issue commissions of array , directed to the prin cipal persons in the respective districts , to muster and array all the men capable of bearing arms . Array is also applied to a jury , as set in order by the sheriff in his return of ...
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Page 686 - ... if he shall have paid the debt, or any part thereof in discharge of the whole debt...
Page 99 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 781 - ... registrar (and which office copy so certified the registrar shall in all cases grant to every person who shall apply for the same), shall in all cases be...
Page 162 - Lastly, acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity : and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void.
Page 702 - Ireland, to be taken out by every person who shall use any dog, gun, net or other engine for the purpose of taking or killing any game whatever, or any woodcock, snipe, quail or landrail, or any conies, or any deer...
Page 89 - The incapacity of a bastard consists principally in this, that he cannot be heir to any one, neither can he have heirs, but of his own body; for being nullius ßlius, he is therefore of kin to nobody, and has no ancestor from whom any inheritable blood can be derived.
Page 628 - And all bills, drafts, or orders for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available, or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed...
Page 788 - ... to all intents and purposes as if this act had never been made ; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 648 - Where the person or persons entitled to any beneficial interest in such property shall be the brother or sister of the father or mother or a descendant of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the decedent, at the rate of six per centum of the clear value of such interest in such property.
Page 647 - And where any such legacy, or residue or share of such residue, shall have been given, or have devolved, to or for the benefit...