The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber ... Trinity Term, 10 Vict., to [Hilary Vacation, 19 Vict.] Both Inclusive. [1847-1856], Volume 11

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Page 859 - That, when the access and use of light to and for any dwelling-house, workshop, or other building, shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto...
Page 554 - Provided always, that no such execution shall issue against any shareholder except upon an order of the court in which the action, suit, or other proceeding shall have been brought or instituted, made upon motion in open court after sufficient notice in writing to the persons sought to be charged ; and upon such motion such court may order execution to issue accordingly...
Page 89 - Any person not named as a defendant in a writ of summons for the recovery of land may by leave of the Court or judge appear and defend, on filing an affidavit showing that he is in possession of the land either by himself or his tenant.
Page 363 - Serjt., had obtained a rule calling on the plaintiff to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, on the ground that the evidence in question had been improperly rejected, and also of the damages being excessive.
Page 687 - Term, 1814, a verdict was found for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion of the Court on the following case...
Page 170 - ... leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter a verdict for him...
Page 595 - At the trial before me a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion of the court, on a case which...
Page 239 - Testament in Witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One.
Page 749 - ... at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton, per mile, or otherwise, in respect of all passengers and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances...
Page 786 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do...

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