Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 15I. Riley, 1812 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... promise of Chinn to make up in land any deficiency there might be in the land sold to Heale , ( as being clearly within the statute of frauds and perjuries , ) and confine myself to the written covenant , as stated in the condition of ...
... promise of Chinn to make up in land any deficiency there might be in the land sold to Heale , ( as being clearly within the statute of frauds and perjuries , ) and confine myself to the written covenant , as stated in the condition of ...
Page 98
... promise B. that , if he and A.'s daughter marry , " he will endeavour to do her equal justice with the rest of his daughters , as fast as it is in his power with convenience ; " and the marriage be afterwards had with his consent ; the ...
... promise B. that , if he and A.'s daughter marry , " he will endeavour to do her equal justice with the rest of his daughters , as fast as it is in his power with convenience ; " and the marriage be afterwards had with his consent ; the ...
Page 101
... promise charged in the bill to have been made by her testa- tor to the complainant , and shewed for cause of demurrer , that it appeared , by his own shewing in his bill , that he had not any equity or title whereon such a decree can be ...
... promise charged in the bill to have been made by her testa- tor to the complainant , and shewed for cause of demurrer , that it appeared , by his own shewing in his bill , that he had not any equity or title whereon such a decree can be ...
Page 107
... promise made by Chichester was too indefinite and uncertain to be obligatory in law or e quiy . It was a mere declaration of an intention to do monwealth , 6 Call , 461 . 1810 . APRIL , equal justice to all his daughters In the 34th ...
... promise made by Chichester was too indefinite and uncertain to be obligatory in law or e quiy . It was a mere declaration of an intention to do monwealth , 6 Call , 461 . 1810 . APRIL , equal justice to all his daughters In the 34th ...
Page 108
... promise was binding at all , Chichester had his ( a ) Vin . 292 whole life to perform it in . ( 6 ) citing Poph . 148. Sylves 3. It might have been satisfied by a conveyance of lands ter's case . 1 Bac . Abr 264 to Mrs. Vass , the ...
... promise was binding at all , Chichester had his ( a ) Vin . 292 whole life to perform it in . ( 6 ) citing Poph . 148. Sylves 3. It might have been satisfied by a conveyance of lands ter's case . 1 Bac . Abr 264 to Mrs. Vass , the ...
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Page ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 623 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war, and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property...
Page 622 - ... estates, rights and properties, as may have been confiscated; and that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several states a reconsideration and revision of all acts or laws regarding the premises, so as to render the said laws or acts perfectly consistent, not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation, which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.
Page 623 - ... war; and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property; and that those who may be in confinement on such charges, at the time of the ratification of the treaty in America, shall be immediately set at liberty, and the prosecutions so commenced be discontinued.
Page 149 - For it is a part of the liberties of England, and greatly for the safety of the subject, that the king may not enter upon or seize any man's possessions upon bare surmises without the intervention of a jury, (z) It is however particularly enacted by the statute 33 Hen.
Page 483 - The legislature may provide by- law that no person shall be capable of holding or being elected to .any post of profit, trust, or emolument, civil or military, legislative, executive, or judicial, under the government of this commonwealth, who shall hereafter fight a duel, or send or accept a challenge to fight a duel...
Page 284 - Ireland upon bills of indictment,' to wit in the parish of St. Mark, in the county of the city of Dublin aforesaid, and this he is ready to verify ; wherefore he prays judgment of the said indictment, and that the same may be quashed, and so forth.
Page 187 - an act to reduce into one the several acts directing the course of descents...
Page 475 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like.
Page 504 - ... was, whether the defendant was guilty in manner and form as charged in the...