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... writing by an agent whose representative character is not dis- closed on the face thereof , 415 - Bills of exchange and promissory notes signed by an agent with- out qualification of his liability , 415 - Effect of a declaration of the ...
... writing by an agent whose representative character is not dis- closed on the face thereof , 415 - Bills of exchange and promissory notes signed by an agent with- out qualification of his liability , 415 - Effect of a declaration of the ...
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... writing , authenticated only with the signature of the party , has no intrinsic operation as a release of the debt ; it is totally inoperative , unless something has been given or done as the consideration for it ; ( f ) but if the ...
... writing , authenticated only with the signature of the party , has no intrinsic operation as a release of the debt ; it is totally inoperative , unless something has been given or done as the consideration for it ; ( f ) but if the ...
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... writing , sealing , and delivery ; and if the parties be illiterate , it ought to be read also . " It may be printed , or written on parchment or paper , and is good and valid , although it mention no time or date , or place of making ...
... writing , sealing , and delivery ; and if the parties be illiterate , it ought to be read also . " It may be printed , or written on parchment or paper , and is good and valid , although it mention no time or date , or place of making ...
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... writing to a superior or to an equal , signs his name at the bottom of the letter , and places the seal immediately to the right of the signature ; but if he particularly desire to testify his humility , he places it beneath his name ...
... writing to a superior or to an equal , signs his name at the bottom of the letter , and places the seal immediately to the right of the signature ; but if he particularly desire to testify his humility , he places it beneath his name ...
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... writing as many copies or parts of the deed as there were parties on one large sheet of parchment , in order that each party might have his part , and then cutting them off in a notched or wavy line , by which means they could at any ...
... writing as many copies or parts of the deed as there were parties on one large sheet of parchment , in order that each party might have his part , and then cutting them off in a notched or wavy line , by which means they could at any ...
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Page 418 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 700 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 60 - ... no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, 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, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 809 - ... silks in a manufactured or. unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials...
Page 344 - ... in case there shall be no special occupant of any estate pur autre vie, whether freehold or customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, it shall go to the executor or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant...
Page 60 - ... be actually made, procured or provided or fit or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery...
Page 85 - ... upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Page 81 - ... shall at any time after the said four and twentieth day of June be assigned, granted or surrendered, unless it be by deed or note in writing, signed by the party so assigning, granting or surrendering the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, or by act and operation of law.
Page 147 - But a license to hunt in a man's park, and carry away the deer killed to his own use ; to cut down a tree in a man's ground, and to carry it away the next day after to his own use, are licenses as to the acts of hunting and cutting down the tree, but as to the carrying away of the deer killed and tree cut down, they are grants.
Page 110 - ... for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available...