Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of the Cases Argued and Cited, and the Principal Matters, Volume 7

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Page 417 - And be it enacted, that no such conviction or adjudication made on appeal therefrom shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed by certiorari or otherwise into any of his Majesty's superior courts of record ; and no warrant of commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.
Page 72 - Be the same more or less together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders...
Page 753 - ... hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children...
Page 445 - Vaughan now moved for a rule to shew cause, why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted.
Page 860 - Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute.
Page 55 - Saund. 320 a, it is said that "if a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money, or other act...
Page 700 - That each of the respective periods of years herein-before mentioned shall be deemed and taken to be the period next before some suit or action wherein the claim or matter to which such period may relate shall have been or shall be brought into question...
Page 785 - Easter term last, moved for a rule to shew cause why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of the trial having been improperly allowed to take place in the absence of Dr.
Page 902 - And it is ordered, that it be referred to the Master to take an account of the...
Page 33 - The question for the opinion of the court was whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover. If...

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