Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and Other Courts: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 2

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Page 323 - The question for the opinion of the court was whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover. If he was, the verdict was to stand ; if he was not entitled to recover, a verdict was to be entered for the defendants.
Page 465 - CD not regarding his said promise and undertaking, but contriving and fraudulently intending craftily and subtilly to deceive and defraud the said...
Page 202 - ... from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
Page 309 - Payment by one is payment for all, the one acting virtually as agent for the rest ; •and in the same manner, an admission by one is an admission by all; and the law raises the promise to pay, when the debt is admitted to be due.
Page 350 - ... and required to administer,) and conditioned for prosecuting the suit with effect and without delay, and for duly returning the goods and chattels distrained in case a return shall be awarded, — before any deliverance be made of the distress...
Page 252 - Burroughs J. joined in the protest of the chief justice " against arguing too strongly upon public policy : it is a very unruly horse, and when once you get astride it, you never know where it will carry you. It may lead you from the sound law. It is never argued at all but when other points fail.
Page 297 - The fact is Lord Coke had no authority for what he states, but I am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered law in Westminster Hall if what Lord Coke says without authority is not law. He was one of the most eminent lawyers that ever presided as a judge in any court of justice, and what is said by such a person is good evidence of what the law is, particularly when it is in conformity with justice and common sense.
Page 350 - ... take in their own names from the plaintiff, and two responsible persons as sureties, a bond...
Page 9 - Vaughan now moved for a rule to shew cause, why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted.
Page 141 - ... any lands, tenements or hereditaments, or of any stock, money, goods, chattels or other personal estate, or securities for money to be laid out or disposed of in the purchase of any . lands, tenements or hereditaments, or of any estate or interest therein, or of any charge or incumbrance affecting or to affect the same...

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