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[ ABS mand in an action of dower , if any land is put therein , which is not in the tenure of the defendant ; for on a plea of non ... the plaintiff may leave out those lands , and pray that the tenant may answer to the remainder .
[ ABS mand in an action of dower , if any land is put therein , which is not in the tenure of the defendant ; for on a plea of non ... the plaintiff may leave out those lands , and pray that the tenant may answer to the remainder .
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A'CRE , a measure of land , very general in name , but varying in different places as to the extent which it is intended to denote . The English acre contains 4 square roods , or 160 square poles of 5 yards and a half , or 4840 square ...
A'CRE , a measure of land , very general in name , but varying in different places as to the extent which it is intended to denote . The English acre contains 4 square roods , or 160 square poles of 5 yards and a half , or 4840 square ...
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A woman at the age of nine is dowable ; at twelve may confirm her consent to marriage ; at fourteen may receive her land into her own hands ; and at twenty - one may alienate her lands and tenements . Among ancient physiologists , the ...
A woman at the age of nine is dowable ; at twelve may confirm her consent to marriage ; at fourteen may receive her land into her own hands ; and at twenty - one may alienate her lands and tenements . Among ancient physiologists , the ...
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To alienate , in mortmain , is to make over lands or tenements to a religious community , or other body politic . To alienate in fee , is to sell the fee - simple of any land , or other incorporeal right . ALIGNMENT , in naval affairs ...
To alienate , in mortmain , is to make over lands or tenements to a religious community , or other body politic . To alienate in fee , is to sell the fee - simple of any land , or other incorporeal right . ALIGNMENT , in naval affairs ...
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It is dug in many parts of EngAMETHYSTINA , ancient garments of land , but the finest is in Lancashire and à purple or violet colour . Cheshire . In the fire it flames violently at AMETHYSTINUS , in conchology , a first , continues red ...
It is dug in many parts of EngAMETHYSTINA , ancient garments of land , but the finest is in Lancashire and à purple or violet colour . Cheshire . In the fire it flames violently at AMETHYSTINUS , in conchology , a first , continues red ...
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Page 165 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 165 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 165 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 250 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous to justice ; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
Page 426 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 277 - In the reciprocal services of lord and vassal there was ample scope for every magnanimous and disinterested energy. The heart of man, when placed in circumstances which have a tendency to excite them, will seldom be deficient in such sentiments.
Page 426 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Page 169 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 259 - I say, then, that we have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition; of the existence of God by demonstration; and of other things by sensation.
Page 317 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre.
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| Title | The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the Belles Lettres |
| Author | Samuel Maunder |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 832 pages |
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