A Popular Law-dictionary, Familiarly Explaining the Terms and Nature of English Law: Adapted to the Comprehension of Persons Not Educated for the Legal Profession, and Affording Information Peculiarly Useful to Magistrates, Merchants, Parochial Officers, and Others |
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... evidence a boundary against subsequent possessors of either land , at any distance of time ; whereas , if either owner encroach on his neighbour's land , for more than 20 years , and no proceedings are instituted to remove it , in the ...
... evidence a boundary against subsequent possessors of either land , at any distance of time ; whereas , if either owner encroach on his neighbour's land , for more than 20 years , and no proceedings are instituted to remove it , in the ...
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... evidence against the felon . All who are aiding and abetting when a felony is committed , and as such being acces- sories , are styled principals in the second degree , in contradistinction to principals in the first degree , who are ...
... evidence against the felon . All who are aiding and abetting when a felony is committed , and as such being acces- sories , are styled principals in the second degree , in contradistinction to principals in the first degree , who are ...
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... evidence directly tending to confirm the leading circumstances of his statement . The evidence of an accomplice for the purpose of furthering the ends of justice , ( which ought , however , to flow from pure fountains ) is receivable ...
... evidence directly tending to confirm the leading circumstances of his statement . The evidence of an accomplice for the purpose of furthering the ends of justice , ( which ought , however , to flow from pure fountains ) is receivable ...
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... evidence . No one my be a member of parliament under the age of twenty - one years . No man can be ordained priest , till twenty - four , nor be a bishop till thirty years of age . A man cannot be sworn on any jury or inquest , till ...
... evidence . No one my be a member of parliament under the age of twenty - one years . No man can be ordained priest , till twenty - four , nor be a bishop till thirty years of age . A man cannot be sworn on any jury or inquest , till ...
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... evidence of the promise , not as a new sort or species of contract . An agreement , therefore , being legally considered a verbal contract , differs materially from a contract or writing under seal , as a deed ( termed , par excellence ...
... evidence of the promise , not as a new sort or species of contract . An agreement , therefore , being legally considered a verbal contract , differs materially from a contract or writing under seal , as a deed ( termed , par excellence ...
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Page 529 - further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without the same being specially pleaded. VICAR strictly means the person who supplies the place of another. The priest of every parish is called the rector, unless the
Page 436 - act, noticing those statutes that are totally or partially unrepealed, in order that the operation of that act may be more fully understood. This statute is intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales," and was passed in the month of August,
Page 519 - (being thereof convicted before him by his own view, or by the confession of such offender, or by the evidence on oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses) to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.
Page 22 - An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits ; and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary oaths.
Page 422 - and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the law, nor mischievous to the state, by raising prices of commodities at home, or hurt of trade, or generally inconvenient.
Page 318 - damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c., or any part thereof. And in case of any loss or misfortune, it shall be lawful to the assured, their factors, servants and assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the defence, safeguard and recovery of the said goods, and merchandises, and ship,
Page 546 - No will or codicil, or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or codicil executed in manner herein-before required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is
Page 318 - And in case of any loss or misfortune, it shall be lawful to the assured, their factors, servants and assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the defence, safeguard and recovery of the said goods, and merchandises, and ship,
Page 318 - seeds, are warranted free from average unless general, or the ship be stranded ; sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides, and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent., and all other goods; also the ship and freight are warranted free of average under three, pounds per cent, unless general, or the ship be stranded. On cargo valued at
Page 546 - required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. — s.