Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880, Volumes 1-2; Volume 21Michie Company, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Judges alone , without a particle of legislative will having ever been called on , or exercised towards its introduction or confirmation . TH : JEFFERSON . When I was at the bar of the General | John , Mason , & c . until 1768 , an ...
... Judges alone , without a particle of legislative will having ever been called on , or exercised towards its introduction or confirmation . TH : JEFFERSON . When I was at the bar of the General | John , Mason , & c . until 1768 , an ...
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... Judges , and can carry no authority with it ; especially as it is not supported by any subsequent resolu- tions , but the whole current of authorities since is contrary . There is the opinion of Frowick in Kel . 91 , and of Popham in ...
... Judges , and can carry no authority with it ; especially as it is not supported by any subsequent resolu- tions , but the whole current of authorities since is contrary . There is the opinion of Frowick in Kel . 91 , and of Popham in ...
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... judges some other surveys . This , Chew might must determine as the law is . But where reasonably suppose he would do in nine the law is doubtful and not clear , the months , which passed before he sued out judges ought to interpret it ...
... judges some other surveys . This , Chew might must determine as the law is . But where reasonably suppose he would do in nine the law is doubtful and not clear , the months , which passed before he sued out judges ought to interpret it ...
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... judges will construe the intent of were sitting as a court of law , they would a devise for life , to be only of the use , and judge by the rules of equity . This admin- then the remainder over is good . These istration then , must be ...
... judges will construe the intent of were sitting as a court of law , they would a devise for life , to be only of the use , and judge by the rules of equity . This admin- then the remainder over is good . These istration then , must be ...
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... judges will never judge one to make an escape by any strict construction . 3 Rep . 44 ; Beyton's case . And these are certainly very hard actions upon the sheriff ; they have always been thought so in this coun- try , and I am mistaken ...
... judges will never judge one to make an escape by any strict construction . 3 Rep . 44 ; Beyton's case . And these are certainly very hard actions upon the sheriff ; they have always been thought so in this coun- try , and I am mistaken ...
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Page 238 - ... as the devisee or legatee would have done, if he had survived the testator; unless a different disposition shall be made or required by .the will.
Page 351 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 73 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Page 85 - That the General Assembly of this colony, together with his majesty or his substitutes, have, in their representative capacity, the only exclusive right and power to lay taxes and imposts upon the inhabitants of this colony...
Page 71 - The eternal principles of natural religion are part of the common law. The essential principles of revealed religion are part of the common law; so that any person reviling, subverting, or ridiculing them may be prosecuted at common law.
Page 80 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Page 49 - ... children got by an Englishman upon a Negro woman shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother...
Page 274 - And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them, then one moiety of the said estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate, the residue of the said estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the intestate, who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them. VII. Provided, that there be no representations admitted among collaterals after brothers
Page 274 - Life time by Portion not equal to the Share which will be due to the other Children by such Distribution as aforesaid; then so much of the Surplusage of the Estate of such Intestate...
Page 274 - Surplusage to the Wife of the Intestate, and all the residue by equal portions, to and amongst the Children of such Persons dying Intestate and such Persons as legally represent such Children, in case any of the said Children be then Dead...