Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the Work, Volume 2S. Sweet, 1836 - Law |
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Page xxviii
... taken out of the common , and so appropriated to the first owner , as to give him a better right to it than others ; and , what is more , to exclude all others from it . " He proceeds to say , that , even " if any of the different ...
... taken out of the common , and so appropriated to the first owner , as to give him a better right to it than others ; and , what is more , to exclude all others from it . " He proceeds to say , that , even " if any of the different ...
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... taken is for the time his own ( d ) . But necessity caused not only the use but the to be appropri- substance also ated to indivi- duals . But when mankind increased in number , craft , and am- bition , it became necessary to entertain ...
... taken is for the time his own ( d ) . But necessity caused not only the use but the to be appropri- substance also ated to indivi- duals . But when mankind increased in number , craft , and am- bition , it became necessary to entertain ...
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... taken in the other light , if I agree to part with an acre of my land to Titius , the deed of conveyance is an evidence of my intending to abandon the property : and Titius , being the only or first man acquainted with such my intention ...
... taken in the other light , if I agree to part with an acre of my land to Titius , the deed of conveyance is an evidence of my intending to abandon the property : and Titius , being the only or first man acquainted with such my intention ...
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... taken , when he held , that , by giving the property in game to the lords of manors , the wisdom of the law had " cut up the root of dissension " as to this matter . The amount of crime ( and consequently of misery ) arising out of this ...
... taken , when he held , that , by giving the property in game to the lords of manors , the wisdom of the law had " cut up the root of dissension " as to this matter . The amount of crime ( and consequently of misery ) arising out of this ...
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... taken , and where he laid it down that attornment was necessary to perfect a grant of a reversion , in here- ditaments , has been clearly refuted ( in 2 Prest . on Abst . 85 , in 2 Saund . on Uses , 38 , and in Sugden's note to Gilb ...
... taken , and where he laid it down that attornment was necessary to perfect a grant of a reversion , in here- ditaments , has been clearly refuted ( in 2 Prest . on Abst . 85 , in 2 Saund . on Uses , 38 , and in Sugden's note to Gilb ...
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Page 4 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 4 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 373 - ... no devise in writing of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, shall be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the same by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his directions and consent...
Page 305 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 514 - America to them in hand paid by the party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 11 - For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein...
Page xxiv - They are not : 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 14 - land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows.
Page 318 - Coke defines it1 to be a conveyance of an estate or right in esse, whereby a voidable estate is made sure and unavoidable, or whereby a particular estate is increased : and the words of making it are these, " have given, granted, ratified, approved and confirmed.
Page 467 - ... all persons using the trade of merchandize by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, commission, consignment, or otherwise, in gross or by retail, and all persons who, either for themselves or as agents or factors for others, seek their living by buying and selling, or by buying or letting for hire, or by the workmanship of goods or commodities...