Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1908 - Law |
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... persons are such as concern , and are annexed to , the persons of men : and , when the person to whom they are due is regarded , they are called ( simply ) rights ; but when we consider the person from whom they are due , they are then ...
... persons are such as concern , and are annexed to , the persons of men : and , when the person to whom they are due is regarded , they are called ( simply ) rights ; but when we consider the person from whom they are due , they are then ...
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... person , or upon an uncertain event ............ .168-69 6 An executory devise is such a disposi- tion of lands , by will , that an estate shall not vest thereby at the death of the de- visor , but only upon some future contin- gency ...
... person , or upon an uncertain event ............ .168-69 6 An executory devise is such a disposi- tion of lands , by will , that an estate shall not vest thereby at the death of the de- visor , but only upon some future contin- gency ...
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... person deceased , shall represent their ancestor ; that is , shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living ........ On failure of lineal descendants , or issue , of the person last seised , the ...
... person deceased , shall represent their ancestor ; that is , shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living ........ On failure of lineal descendants , or issue , of the person last seised , the ...
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... person or corporation is fatal to the validity of an act if the person or corporation intended can be collected from the words . Blanchard vs. Sprague , 3 Sumner , 279. The term " person " in a statute embraces not only natural but ...
... person or corporation is fatal to the validity of an act if the person or corporation intended can be collected from the words . Blanchard vs. Sprague , 3 Sumner , 279. The term " person " in a statute embraces not only natural but ...
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... person . " - HARGRave . Lord Hale thinks that the scruple of the judges did not merely depend upon the words being in the plural number , because no doubt had ever occurred respecting former statutes in the plural number ; as , for ...
... person . " - HARGRave . Lord Hale thinks that the scruple of the judges did not merely depend upon the words being in the plural number , because no doubt had ever occurred respecting former statutes in the plural number ; as , for ...
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