The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, Volume 16

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Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Edward Potton, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead
Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 57 - Esquire, and his assigns for and during the term of his natural life, without impeachment of waste : and from and after the determination of that estate by...
Page 215 - Master should have made his report ; and any of the parties were to be at liberty to apply to the Court as there should be occasion.
Page 367 - Salk. 160, for the product of or substitute for the original thing still follows the nature of the thing itself, as long as it can be ascertained to be such, and the right only ceases when the means of ascertainment fail...
Page 534 - An Act to repeal certain Acts, and amend other Acts, relating to Religious Worship, and Assemblies, and persons teaching or preaching therein ; " and hereby request a Certificate thereof.
Page 271 - Elizabeth, my well beloved wife, for and during the term of her natural life; and from and immediately after her decease...
Page 367 - It makes no difference in reason or law into what other form, different from the original, the change may have been made, whether it be into that of promissory notes for the security of the money which was produced by the sale of the goods of the principal, as in Scott v. Surman, Willes, 400, or into other merchandize, as in Whitecomb v. Jacob, Salk. 160, for the product of or substitute for the original thing still follows the nature of the thing itself, as long as it can be ascertained to be such...
Page 215 - Plaintiff, or to the hands of any other person or persons, by his order or for his use, or which without his wilful default might have been received.
Page 401 - Elizabeth, to be equally divided between them share and share alike...
Page 600 - Sergt., on this day moved for a rule nisi to set aside the nonsuit and have a new trial. He first contended that there was at this day no such estate possible in law as a strict tenancy at will; where no longer term was defined, all was tenancy from year to year. At all events the taking of the dung was equivalent to an acceptance of rent; and after an acceptance of rent, a halfyear's notice...
Page 739 - For every legacy, specific or pecuniary, or of any other description, of the amount or value of 20/. or upwards, given by any will or testamentary instrument, of any person who shall have died after the 5th...

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