A Treatise on the Limitations of Actions at Law and Suits in Equity and Admiralty: With an Appendix Containing the American and English Statutes of Limitations |
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 298 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter or take away or lessen the Effect of any Payment of any Principal or Interest made by any Person whatsoever...
Page cxlix - That in actions of debt, or upon the case, grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract...
Page xci - ... within the age of twenty-one years, feme covert, non compos mentis, imprisoned, or beyond the seas, that then such person or persons shall be at liberty to bring the same actions, so as they take the same within such times as are before limited, after their coming to or being of full age, discovert, of sane memory, at large, and returned from beyond the seas, as other persons, having no such impediment, should have done.
Page 88 - Servants, all Actions of Debt grounded upon any Lending or Contract without Specialty...
Page ciii - Action given or accrued, fallen, or come within the Age of twenty-one Years, Feme Covert, Non compos mentis, imprisoned, or beyond the Seas...
Page vi - ... within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page xxxix - Enactments or either of them, or to deprive any Party of the Benefit thereof, unless such Acknowledgment or Promise shall be made or contained by or in some Writing to be signed by the Party chargeable thereby...
Page xvi - ... or some person through whom he claims, shall, at any time previously to the creation of the estate or estates which shall have determined, have been in possession or receipt of the profits of such land, or in receipt of such rent.
Page cl - Acts or this Act, as to One or more of such Joint Contractors, or Executors or Administrators, shall nevertheless be entitled to recover against any other or others of the Defendants, by virtue of a new Acknowledgment or Promise, or otherwise, Judgment may be given and Costs allowed for the Plaintiff as to such Defendant or Defendants against whom he shall recover, and for the other Defendant or Defendants against the Plaintiff.
Page cvii - ... beyond the seas, that then such person or persons shall be at liberty to bring the same actions, so as they take the same •within such times as are before limited, after their coming to or being of full age, discovert, of sane memory, at large, and returned from beyond the seas, as other persons having no such impediment should have done (6).
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Treatise on the Limitations of Actions at Law and Suits in Equity and Admiralty: With an Appendix Containing the American and English Statutes of Limitations Legal classics library Making of modern law |
| Author | Joseph Kinnicut Angell |
| Editor | John Wilder May |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1861 |
| Length | 494 pages |
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