Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1Callaghan, 1872 - Law |
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... descends in a course peculiar to itself , ... 193 on failure of male issue , descends to issue female ,. right of primogeniture , .... .. 194 194 on failure of issue , goes to collaterals ,. 194 is subject to limitation by parliament ...
... descends in a course peculiar to itself , ... 193 on failure of male issue , descends to issue female ,. right of primogeniture , .... .. 194 194 on failure of issue , goes to collaterals ,. 194 is subject to limitation by parliament ...
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... descends to two or more persons ,. in which case each is seized of a distinct moiety only , the parceners may have ... descend to the issue of the person who last died seized , in infinitum , but never lineally ascend , .. 208 this now ...
... descends to two or more persons ,. in which case each is seized of a distinct moiety only , the parceners may have ... descend to the issue of the person who last died seized , in infinitum , but never lineally ascend , .. 208 this now ...
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... descended from a female ,. the present canons of descent in England , .. 224n 234 ..240n CHAPTER XV . OF TITLE BY PURCHASE ; AND , I , BY ESCHEAT ,. .241-258 purchase , in its most extensive sense , is the possession of an estate which ...
... descended from a female ,. the present canons of descent in England , .. 224n 234 ..240n CHAPTER XV . OF TITLE BY PURCHASE ; AND , I , BY ESCHEAT ,. .241-258 purchase , in its most extensive sense , is the possession of an estate which ...
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... descend to the heir with his inheritance , .. 426 427 CHAPTER XXIX . ... 430-439 OF TITLE BY SUCCESSION , MARRIAGE AND JUDGMENT , .. in corporations aggregate one set of men , by succeeding another set , acquire a property in all the ...
... descend to the heir with his inheritance , .. 426 427 CHAPTER XXIX . ... 430-439 OF TITLE BY SUCCESSION , MARRIAGE AND JUDGMENT , .. in corporations aggregate one set of men , by succeeding another set , acquire a property in all the ...
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... descend to a few particulars . Let us therefore begin with our gentlemen of independent estates and fortune , the most useful as well as considerable body of men in the nation ; whom even to suppose ignorant in this branch of learning ...
... descend to a few particulars . Let us therefore begin with our gentlemen of independent estates and fortune , the most useful as well as considerable body of men in the nation ; whom even to suppose ignorant in this branch of learning ...
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Page 333 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 290 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 151 - Will you. to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 329 - There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 138 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said Princess; and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 30 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 264 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 103 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate; yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still 'in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative', when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Page 238 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.