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Page 9 - Implied, are such as reason and justice dictate, and which therefore the law presumes that every man undertakes to perform.
Page 581 - Compute the interest on the principal sum, from the time when the interest commenced to the first time when a payment was made, which exceeds either alone or in conjunction with the preceding payment...
Page 588 - Judgments are the sentence of the law, pronounced by the court upon the matter contained in the record; and are of four sorts.
Page xix - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio: but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force...
Page 220 - ... to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence...
Page 268 - EF, or his certain attorney, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these oresents.
Page 649 - America, to be paid to the said , his certain attorney, executors, administrators or assigns, to which payment well and truly to be made, I do bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, for and in the whole, firmly by these presents.
Page 120 - Time; and that all Bonds, Contracts, and Assurances whatsoever, made after the Time aforesaid, for Payment of any Principal or Money to be lent or covenanted to be performed upon or for any Usury, whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken...
Page 179 - He may also delegate part of his parental authority, during his life, to the tutor or schoolmaster of his child; who is then in loco parentis, and has such a portion of the power of the parent committed to his charge, viz.: that of restraint and correction, as may be necessary to answer the purposes for which he is employed.
Page 320 - It seemed to the court in this case, that it is sufficient to state in the declaration so much of any contract, consisting of several distinct parts and collateral provisions as contains the entire consideration for the act and the entire act which is to be done...
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| Title | A Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace, in the State of New York Issues 75191-75199 of 19th-century legal treatises The Making of the Modern Law |
| Author | Esek Cowen |
| Publisher | Wm. Gould & Company, 1821 |
| Length | 750 pages |
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