A Compendious View of the Civil Law, and of the Law of the Admiralty: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Read in the University of Dublin, Volume 1 |
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Page 62 - The method of computing these degrees in the canon law, which our law has adopted, is as follows: We begin at the common ancestor and reckon downwards: and in whatsoever degree the two persons, or the most remote of them, is distant from the common ancestor, that is the degree in which they are related to each other.
Page 332 - ... his directions in manner aforefaid, or unlefs the fame be altered ', by fome other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devifor figned in the prefence of three or four witnclles declaring the fame.
Page 333 - Raymond 534concerning any goods or chattels, or perfonal eftate, (hall be repealed, nor fhall any claufe, devife or bequeft therein, be altered or changed by any words, or will by word of mouth only, except the fame be in the life of the teftator committed to writing, and after the writing thereof read unto the teftator, and allowed by him, and proved to be fo done by three witnefles at the leaft.
Page 177 - By the law of the twelve tables at Rome, where a man had the right. of way over another's land, and the road was out of repair, he who had the right of way might go over any part of the land he pleased; which was the established rule in public as well as private ways.
Page 332 - June be revocable, otherwife than by fome other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the fame, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the fame by the teftator himfelf, or in his prefence -and by his directions and confent...
Page 67 - For, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband...
Page 240 - Law, p. 240, the writer states the civil law to be that the original owner of any thing improved by the act of another, retained his ownership in the thing so improved, unless it was changed into a different species ; as if his grapes were made into wine, the wine belonged to the maker, who was only obliged to pay the owner for the value of his grapes. The species however must be incapable of being restored to its ancient form ; and the materials must have been taken in ignorance of their being the...
Page 512 - Petition to the Lord Chancellor as visitor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, there being no heir of the founder, to declare the election of a fellow void, and to order the petitioner to be admitted : the Court of King's Bench having in a similar case declined jurisdiction, the Lord Chancellor heard the petition, and npon the construction of the statute dismissed it.
Page 517 - Caroli, for the preservation of the inheritance, rights, and profits of lands belonging to the church and persons ecclesiastical ; which was grounded upon reasons that do still, and must for ever, subsist.