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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... taken away by stat . 13 Geo . 2. c . 4 ; which vests the property of all ships taken and condemned as prize in the admiralty courts , in the admirals , captains , sailors , & c . being the captors , according to the proportions to be ...
... taken away by stat . 13 Geo . 2. c . 4 ; which vests the property of all ships taken and condemned as prize in the admiralty courts , in the admirals , captains , sailors , & c . being the captors , according to the proportions to be ...
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... taken by the lords in parliament , anno 3 Hen . 6. Rot . Parl . AFFIDATUS . A tenant by fealty . AFFIDAVIT . An oath in writing ; and to make affidavit of a thing , is to testify it upon oath . An affidavit , generally speaking , is an ...
... taken by the lords in parliament , anno 3 Hen . 6. Rot . Parl . AFFIDATUS . A tenant by fealty . AFFIDAVIT . An oath in writing ; and to make affidavit of a thing , is to testify it upon oath . An affidavit , generally speaking , is an ...
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... taken away by stat . 12 Car . 2. c . 24. except fines due by particular customs of manors . All persons who have a right to lands may generally alien them to others : but some alienations are forbidden : as an alienation by a particular ...
... taken away by stat . 12 Car . 2. c . 24. except fines due by particular customs of manors . All persons who have a right to lands may generally alien them to others : but some alienations are forbidden : as an alienation by a particular ...
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... taken for what we call Peter - Pence , first given by Ina , king of the West Saxons , and anciently paid in England on the first of August . It was likewise called romefeoh , romescot , and heorthpening . Selden's Hist . Tithes , 217 ...
... taken for what we call Peter - Pence , first given by Ina , king of the West Saxons , and anciently paid in England on the first of August . It was likewise called romefeoh , romescot , and heorthpening . Selden's Hist . Tithes , 217 ...
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... taken for enemies ; but being once admitted , even with ene- mies in arms , they shall have the protection of the laws of na- tions , and be preserved as princes . Moll . 146. If a banished man be sent as an ambassador to the place from ...
... taken for enemies ; but being once admitted , even with ene- mies in arms , they shall have the protection of the laws of na- tions , and be preserved as princes . Moll . 146. If a banished man be sent as an ambassador to the place from ...
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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.