The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the British Law: Defining and Interpreting the Terms Or Words of Art, and Comprising Also Copious Information on the Subjects of Trade and Government, Volume 1J. and W. T. Clarke; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835 - Law |
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... ancient lights , and for any private nuisance thereof the plaintiff's house in part falls , the plaintiff cannot to a man's water , light , or air , whereby a person is damnified , have an action against him without alleging and proving ...
... ancient lights , and for any private nuisance thereof the plaintiff's house in part falls , the plaintiff cannot to a man's water , light , or air , whereby a person is damnified , have an action against him without alleging and proving ...
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... ancient highways ; which could not be done with- out the king's licence obtained by this writ , on inquisition found that such a change will not be detrimental to the public . Terms de Ley , 26 : Vaugh . Rep . 314. Although now an ...
... ancient highways ; which could not be done with- out the king's licence obtained by this writ , on inquisition found that such a change will not be detrimental to the public . Terms de Ley , 26 : Vaugh . Rep . 314. Although now an ...
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... ancient books : if a man , seised of a manor to which an advowson is appendant , aliens that manor , without saying with the appurtenances ( and even without naming the advowson ) , yet the advowson shall pass , for it is parcel of the ...
... ancient books : if a man , seised of a manor to which an advowson is appendant , aliens that manor , without saying with the appurtenances ( and even without naming the advowson ) , yet the advowson shall pass , for it is parcel of the ...
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... ANCIENT DEMESNE . I similar survey of the palatinate of Durham , made by order of Bishop Pudsey , nephew to King Stephen , in the year 1183 . Fitzherbert tells us , that tenants in ancient demesne had towards the maintenance of the ...
... ANCIENT DEMESNE . I similar survey of the palatinate of Durham , made by order of Bishop Pudsey , nephew to King Stephen , in the year 1183 . Fitzherbert tells us , that tenants in ancient demesne had towards the maintenance of the ...
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... ancient demesne is no plea . Hob . 47 : 5 Cro . 105. For farther matter see Kyd's Com . Dig . tit . Ancient Demesne . ANCIENTY , Fr. Ancienté , Lat . Antiquitas . ] Eldership or seniority . This word is used in the stat . of Ireland ...
... ancient demesne is no plea . Hob . 47 : 5 Cro . 105. For farther matter see Kyd's Com . Dig . tit . Ancient Demesne . ANCIENTY , Fr. Ancienté , Lat . Antiquitas . ] Eldership or seniority . This word is used in the stat . of Ireland ...
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Page 88 - 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 78 - That if any bankrupt, at the time he becomes bankrupt, shall, by the consent and permission of the true owner thereof, have in his possession, order, or disposition, any goods or chattels whereof he was reputed owner...
Page 6 - An annuity is a yearly payment of a certain sum of money, granted to another in fee, for life, or years, charging the person of the grantor only.
Page 71 - ... all persons using the trade of merchandise 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 and letting for hire, or by the workmanship of goods or commodities...
Page 82 - ... due on either side on the balance of such account, and no more, shall be claimed or paid on either side respectively...
Page 24 - It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another; as by striking at him with, or without, a weapon; or presenting a gun at...
Page 79 - ... transferred to any of his children, or any other person, any hereditaments, offices, fees, annuities, leases, goods, or chattels, or have delivered or made over to any such person any bills, bonds, notes, or other securities, or have transferred his debts to any other person or...
Page 95 - And therefore if a woman commit theft, burglary, or other civil offences against the laws of society, by the coercion of her husband, or even in his company, (which the law construes a coercion,) she is not guilty of any crime ; being considered as acting by compulsion, and not of her own will.