Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: And Other Courts, from Michaelmas Term, 48 Geo. III. 1807, to [Hilary Term, 59 Geo. III. 1819] Both Inclusive. With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 3

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Page 136 - No man, making a ditch, can cut into his neighbour's soil, but usually he cuts it to the very extremity of his own land. He is of course bound to throw the soil which he digs out, upon his own land; and often, if he likes it, he plants a hedge on the top of it; therefore if he afterwards cuts beyond the edge of the ditch, which is the extremity of his land, he cuts into his neighbour's land, and is a trespasser: no rule about 4 ft., and 8 ft., has anything to do with it.
Page 165 - ... any justice of the peace for any thing done by him in the execution of his office...
Page 215 - Method and in case of any Alteration of Property, in the same Port, by the Sale of one or more Shares in any Ship after registering thereof, such Sale shall always be acknowledged by Endorsement on the Certificate...
Page 282 - Hancock, said that there is no case where money has been actually paid by one of two parties to the other upon an illegal contract, both being particeps criminis, an action has been maintained to recover it back.
Page 179 - Guernsey, Jersey, or any of Our Plantations in America, so as to be qualified to Trade to, from, or in any of Our said Plantations until the Person or Persons claiming Property in such Ship or Vessel...
Page 523 - ... have delivered unto the party or parties to be charged therewith, or left for him, her, or them at his, her, or their dwelling-house or last place of abode, a bill of such fees, charges and disbursements...
Page 389 - There can be only so many goods at the top of the vessel as the proper stowage of the goods will allow, therefore all the others must be at the bottom ; and as this is a general ship, and the goods do not all belong to the same consignee...
Page 549 - A license to sail in ballast from any port north of the Scheldt to Archangel, or any other port of the White Sea, there to take in a cargo of...
Page 41 - Davy (the ship in question) ; at twelve in the night lost sight of her all at once ; the captain spoke to me the day before that he was leaky, and the next day we had a hard gale.
Page 276 - VIV exerutori', and if an action is brought with a view to refciod a contract, you muft do it while the contract continues executory, and then it can only be done on the terms of reftoring the other party to his original fituation.

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