A General Abridgement of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; with Notes and References to the Whole, Volume 14

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G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793 - Law
 

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Page 215 - Nevertheless, the judges may award the queen's writ to bring the bodies of such persons before them, and if, upon return thereof, the causes of the commitment be certified to the judges as it ought to be, then the judges in the cases before ought not to deliver him, but to remand the prisoner to the place from whence he came...
Page 58 - Every grant shall be expounded as the intent was at the time of the grant. As, if I grant an annuity to JS until he be promoted to a competent benefice, and at the time of the grant...
Page 131 - A and his heirs, and a limitation to him for life, remainder to B in tail, remainder to the right heirs of A...
Page 4 - Estatute heretofore made, or any unlawful New Game now invented or made, or any other new unlawful Game hereafter to be invented, found, had or made...
Page 440 - It is only explanatory of some matter already expressed ; it 'serves to point out where there is precedent matter, but never for a new charge ; it may apply what is already expressed, but cannot add to or enlarge, or change the sense of the previous words.
Page 40 - AS by his deed, reciting that she is a feme covert when in truth she is a feme sole, grants an annuity, it is a good grant, for that is but a void recital although the grantee had not put it in his writ; and it cannot be a conclusion to him when he shows the deed.
Page 471 - ... and this is per legem mercatoriam, which is part of the laws of this realm, for the advancement and continuance of commerce and trade, which is pro bono publico ; for the rule is, that jus .accrescendi inter mercatores pro beneficio commercii locum non habet.
Page 494 - And the cause why such donees in such case have a joint estate for term of their lives, is, for that at the beginning the lands were given to them two, which words, without more saying, make a joint estate to them for term of their lives. For if a man will let land to another by deed, or without deed, not making mention what estate he shall...
Page 576 - And, in the firft year of his fucceflbr's reign, an act was pafled", reciting " that no man knew how he ought to behave himfelf, " to do, fpeak, or fay, for doubt of fuch pains of treafon : and " therefore it was accorded that in no time to come any treafon be " judged, otherwife than was ordained by the ftatute of king
Page 284 - If a man giveth lands to a man, to have and to hold to him and his heires on the part of his mother, yet the heires of the part of the father shall inherit, for no man can institute a new kind of inheritance not allowed by the law, and the words (of the part of his mother) are voide, as in the case that Littleton putteth in this Chapter.

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