English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House of Lords, Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law; and in the Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Courts; Including Also Cases in Bankruptcy and Crown Cases Reserved

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Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith
C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1853 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 510 - London, the act of God, the Queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation of whatever nature or kind soever, save risk of boats, so far as ships are liable thereto, excepted...
Page 139 - Know all Men, by these Presents, that We all of the County of are held and firmly bound unto in the Sum of to be paid to the said his certain Attorney, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns. For which Payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our and each of our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these Presents.
Page 583 - ... of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufacture within this realm...
Page 53 - ... interval between two successive calls had not elapsed, or that calls amounting to more than the sum prescribed for the total amount of calls in one year had been made within that period.
Page 520 - ... right by law to reenter for the non-payment thereof, such landlord or lessor shall and may, without any formal demand or reentry, serve a...
Page 402 - It is a truism of the law that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent; that what one has a right to do another cannot complain of.
Page 549 - Ellis, of the second part, and the several other persons whose names and seals were thereunto subscribed and set, being respectively creditors of the said James Ellis, of the third part.
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Page 641 - The company shall keep a book, to be called the " Register of Shareholders," and in such book shall be fairly and distinctly entered, from time to time, the names of the several corporations, and the names and additions of the several persons entitled to shares in the company, together with the number of shares to which such shareholders shall be respectively entitled, distinguishing...
Page 407 - I do hereby declare this to be my specification of the same; and that I do verily believe this my said specification doth comply, in all respects, fully, and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said hereinbefore in part recited letters patent contained.

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