The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the British Law:: K-ZJ. and W. T. Clarke; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835 - Law |
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... action is brought for a civil remedy , and make the defendant liable in strictness to pay a fine to the king , as well as damages to the injured party . So any action vi et armis , where the king is to have fine , as ejectment ...
... action is brought for a civil remedy , and make the defendant liable in strictness to pay a fine to the king , as well as damages to the injured party . So any action vi et armis , where the king is to have fine , as ejectment ...
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... action , but that it would not lie for a legacy in specie ; which would be to divest the Spiritual Court of what properly belonged to their jurisdiction , by turning suits which might be brought there , into actions on the case . Raym ...
... action , but that it would not lie for a legacy in specie ; which would be to divest the Spiritual Court of what properly belonged to their jurisdiction , by turning suits which might be brought there , into actions on the case . Raym ...
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... action or indictment . Stra . 493. See post , IV . But the court will not grant this extra- ordinary remedy by information , nor should a grand jury find an indictment , unless the offence be of such signal enormity , that it may ...
... action or indictment . Stra . 493. See post , IV . But the court will not grant this extra- ordinary remedy by information , nor should a grand jury find an indictment , unless the offence be of such signal enormity , that it may ...
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... action lies on the case for obstructing it . 9 Rep . 59 a ; Boury v . Pope , 1 Leon . 168. In order to sustain such an action , it is not necessary to show a total privation of light . If the plaintiff can prove that by reason of the ...
... action lies on the case for obstructing it . 9 Rep . 59 a ; Boury v . Pope , 1 Leon . 168. In order to sustain such an action , it is not necessary to show a total privation of light . If the plaintiff can prove that by reason of the ...
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... action first descended or fallen , and at no time after the said twenty years ; and that no person or persons that now hath any right or title of entry , into any manors , lands , tenements , or hereditaments , now held from him or them ...
... action first descended or fallen , and at no time after the said twenty years ; and that no person or persons that now hath any right or title of entry , into any manors , lands , tenements , or hereditaments , now held from him or them ...
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