Ruling Cases, Volume 16Robert Campbell Stevens, 1898 - Annotations and citations (Law) |
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Page 314 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 314 - And by s. 2, it is enacted, that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 191 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter or take away or lessen the Effect of any Payment of any Principal or Interest made by any Person whatsoever...
Page 315 - ... to make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover such land or rent, shall be deemed to have first accrued...
Page 314 - Who shall have been in such possession or receipt, then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time of such death ; and when the person claiming such laud or rent shall claim in respect of an estate or interest in possession...
Page 321 - And when the estate or interest claimed shall have been an estate or interest in reversion or remainder or other future estate or interest and no person shall have obtained the possession or receipt of the profits of such land or the receipt of such rent in respect of such estate or interest then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which such estate or interest became an estate or interest in possession.
Page 578 - Where the terms of the statute are not imperative, but permissive, when it is left to the discretion of the persons empowered to determine whether the general powers committed to them shall be put into execution or not, I think the fair inference is that the Legislature intended that discretion to be exercised in strict conformity with private rights, and did not intend to confer license to commit nuisance in any place which might be selected for the purpose.
Page 191 - Enactments or either of them, or to deprive any Party of the Benefit thereof, unless such Acknowledgment or Promise shall be made or contained by or in some Writing to be signed by the Party chargeable thereby...
Page 398 - ... think fit, execute the works mentioned or referred to therein ; and the expenses incurred by them in so doing shall be paid by the owners in default, according to the frontage of their respective premises...
Page 397 - Owner" means the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rackrent...