An Exact Abridgment, in English, of the Eleven Books of Reports of the Learned Sir Edward Coke, Knt. ...

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I. Riley, no. 4, City-hotel. September, 1813 - Law reports, digests, etc - 432 pages
 

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Page ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page ii - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United Slates, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 362 - Council and them, that the King by his Proclamation cannot create any offence which was not an offence before, for then he may alter the law of the land by his proclamation in a high point ; for if he may create an offence where none is, upon that ensues fine and imprisonment...
Page 172 - That the house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose...
Page 357 - ... but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered or adjudged to be heresy by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four General Councils or any of them, or by any other General Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Page 361 - That after their assembly they cannot confer to constitute any canons without licence of the king ; 3. When they upon conference conclude any canons, yet they cannot execute any of their canons without the royal assent ; 4.
Page 392 - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said twenty three acres of Land and Premises hereby granted (except as before excepted) with their appurtenances unto the said Matthias Kish his Heirs and Assigns To the only Use and Behoof of the said Matthias Kish his Heirs and Assigns forever.
Page 265 - Is accorded and assented that in case where a man dieth intestate, the ordinaries shall depute the next and most lawful friends of the dead person intestate to administer his goods...
Page 63 - The deed contains, that the gift was made honestly, truly, and bona fide; et clausulae inconsuet' semper inducunt suspicionem. Secondly, it was resolved, that notwithstanding here was a true debt due to Twyne, and a good consideration of the gift, yet it was not within the proviso of the said Act of 13 Eliz. by which it is provided, that the said Act shall not extend to any estate or interest in lands, &c. goods or chattels made on a good consideration and bona fide; for although it is on a...
Page 193 - ... her jointure, and afterwards made a feoffment by deed of the third acre, to the use of such person and persons, and of such estate and estates as he should limit and appoint by his last will in writing, and afterwards by his last will in writing he devised the said third acre to one in fee (under whom the plaintiff claimed).