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... particular field or of a jewel , when lying on his death - bed and no longer able to maintain poffeffion , thould be entitled to tell the reft , of the world which of them fhould enjoy it after him . These inquiries , it must be owned ...
... particular field or of a jewel , when lying on his death - bed and no longer able to maintain poffeffion , thould be entitled to tell the reft , of the world which of them fhould enjoy it after him . These inquiries , it must be owned ...
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... particular ; yet whoever was in the occupation of any determined spot of it , for reft , for fhade , or the like , acquired for the time a fort of ownership , from which it would have been unjust , and contrary to the law of nature , to ...
... particular ; yet whoever was in the occupation of any determined spot of it , for reft , for fhade , or the like , acquired for the time a fort of ownership , from which it would have been unjust , and contrary to the law of nature , to ...
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... particular , it was natural to obferve , that even the brute creation , to whom every thing else was in common , maintained a kind of permanent property in their dwellings , especially for the protection of their young ; that the birds ...
... particular , it was natural to obferve , that even the brute creation , to whom every thing else was in common , maintained a kind of permanent property in their dwellings , especially for the protection of their young ; that the birds ...
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... particular perfon , who from the refult [ 14 ] of certain local conftitutions , appears to be the heir at law . Hence it follows , that , where the appointment is regularly made , there cannot be a fhadow of right in any one but the ...
... particular perfon , who from the refult [ 14 ] of certain local conftitutions , appears to be the heir at law . Hence it follows , that , where the appointment is regularly made , there cannot be a fhadow of right in any one but the ...
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... woods , his waters , and his houses , as well as his fields and meadows . Not but the particular names of the things are f Brownl . 142 . equally equally fufficient to pass them , except in the inftance 18 Book II . The RIGHTS.
... woods , his waters , and his houses , as well as his fields and meadows . Not but the particular names of the things are f Brownl . 142 . equally equally fufficient to pass them , except in the inftance 18 Book II . The RIGHTS.
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Page 6 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 6 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 36 - 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 181 - But, while it continues, each of two joint-tenants has a concurrent interest in the whole; and therefore, on the death of his companion, the sole interest in the whole remains to the survivor.
Page 18 - land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it.
Page 512 - ... the next of kindred in equal degree and their representatives : if no widow, the whole shall go to the children : if neither widow nor children, the whole shall be distributed...
Page 487 - Glanvil informs us that by the common law, as it stood in the reign of Henry the Second, a man's goods were to be divided into three equal parts: of which one went to his heirs or lineal descendants, another to his wife, and the third was at his own disposal: or if he died without a wife, he might then dispose of one moiety, and the other went to his children ; and so e converso, if he had no children...
Page 334 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio;* but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force: as, payment of rent; performance of covenants in a deed; or repayment of a principal sum of money borrowed of the obligee, with interest, which principal sum is usually one half of the penal sum specified in the bond.
Page 497 - An executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of that his last will and testament. And all persons are capable of being executors, that are capable of making wills, and many others besides ; as feme-coverts and infants : nay, even infants unborn, or in venire sa mere, may be made executors.
Page 129 - But if there be a donee in special tail who holds lands to him and the heirs of his body begotten on Jane his wife : though Jane may be endowed of these lands, yet if Jane dies, and he marries a second wife, that second wife shall never be endowed of the lands entailed; for no issue that she could have, could by any possibility inherit them.