Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England and Containing Full Explanations of the Technical Terms and Phrases Thereof, Both Ancient and Modern, Including the Various Legal Terms Used in Commercial Business : Together with a Translation of Latin Law Maxims and Selected Titles from the Civil, Scotch, and Indian Law |
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... nature , and even with things of a contrary nature ; for discoveries may be , and often are , made by the contrast , which would escape us on the single view . The greater number of the comparisons we make , the more general and the ...
... nature , and even with things of a contrary nature ; for discoveries may be , and often are , made by the contrast , which would escape us on the single view . The greater number of the comparisons we make , the more general and the ...
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... nature of the deeds and muniments , chronologically ar- ranged , with references to the pages of the abstract in which they are to be found , facili- tates perusal . The object of every abstract is to enable the purchaser or mortgagee ...
... nature of the deeds and muniments , chronologically ar- ranged , with references to the pages of the abstract in which they are to be found , facili- tates perusal . The object of every abstract is to enable the purchaser or mortgagee ...
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... natural or artificial means , as by the growth of vegetables , the pregnancy of animals , the embroidering of cloth ... nature of his [ or its ] principal . ) Accessory . See ACCESSARY . Accessory to Adultery , a phrase used in the law ...
... natural or artificial means , as by the growth of vegetables , the pregnancy of animals , the embroidering of cloth ... nature of his [ or its ] principal . ) Accessory . See ACCESSARY . Accessory to Adultery , a phrase used in the law ...
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... nature of actions is strictly to be observed . ) Actionum quædam sunt in rem , quædam in personam , et quædam mixtæ . Co. Litt . 284 . - ( Some actions are against the thing , some against the person , and some mixed . ) Actitation , a ...
... nature of actions is strictly to be observed . ) Actionum quædam sunt in rem , quædam in personam , et quædam mixtæ . Co. Litt . 284 . - ( Some actions are against the thing , some against the person , and some mixed . ) Actitation , a ...
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... nature , as- ( 1 ) Between part owners of a ship . The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice has a concurrent jurisdiction in this case . ( 2 ) Mariners ' and officers ' wages . ( Also recoverable by action in the other ...
... nature , as- ( 1 ) Between part owners of a ship . The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice has a concurrent jurisdiction in this case . ( 2 ) Mariners ' and officers ' wages . ( Also recoverable by action in the other ...
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Page 417 - Except nevertheless all leases not exceeding the term of three years from the making thereof, whereupon the rent reserved to the landlord, during such term, shall amount unto two third parts at the least of the full improved value of the thing demised.
Page 89 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 349 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Page 447 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 148 - Act, no warrant of attorney to confess judgment in any personal action, or cognovit actionem given by any person, shall be of any force, unless there shall be present some attorney of one of the Superior Courts on behalf of such person, expressly named by him, and attending at his request, to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant or cognovit before the same is executed; which attorney shall subscribe his name as a witness to the due execution thereof, and thereby declare himself to...
Page 514 - I, AB, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God!
Page 452 - A mandamus or an injunction may be granted or a receiver appointed by an interlocutory Order of the Court in all cases in which it shall appear to the Court to be just or convenient that such Order should be made...
Page 384 - ... to the creditor at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time, or, if payable otherwise, then from the time when demand of payment shall have been made in writing, so as such demand shall give notice to the debtor that interest will be claimed from the date of such demand until the term of payment: Provided that interest shall be payable in...
Page 315 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 442 - In any action or proceeding upon a bill, the court or a judge may order that the loss of the instrument shall not be set up, provided an indemnity be given to the satisfaction of the court or judge against the claims of any other person upon the instrument in question.