Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880, Volumes 1-2; Volume 21Michie Company, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... plaintiff any of sheriff's office , directs a person to whom If the law be for he is indebted , to receive divers quit - rents , that money and tobacco . the plaintiff the jury find £ 71 . 1s . 10d . levies and fees , and discount them ...
... plaintiff any of sheriff's office , directs a person to whom If the law be for he is indebted , to receive divers quit - rents , that money and tobacco . the plaintiff the jury find £ 71 . 1s . 10d . levies and fees , and discount them ...
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... plaintiff , October , 1735 . Lee , Randolph , Grymes , Carter , Digges , and the Governor , for plaintiff . Lightfoot , Custis , Tayloe , Robinson and Bird , for defendant . BLAIR gave no opinion . For the plain- tiff , of master and ...
... plaintiff , October , 1735 . Lee , Randolph , Grymes , Carter , Digges , and the Governor , for plaintiff . Lightfoot , Custis , Tayloe , Robinson and Bird , for defendant . BLAIR gave no opinion . For the plain- tiff , of master and ...
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... plaintiff has a right , it is no more than as a tenant in common with her other brothers ; the remainder is limited to be equally divided between the 58 survivors . * Now surely no lawyer will say , that one tenant in common of a ...
... plaintiff has a right , it is no more than as a tenant in common with her other brothers ; the remainder is limited to be equally divided between the 58 survivors . * Now surely no lawyer will say , that one tenant in common of a ...
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... plaintiff Roger for per- be void , and therefore , it cannot be set up formance of covenants . That Porter et ux . in part . Hob . 14 ; Norton v . Sims , 3 Co. came to court to acknowledge these deeds , 82. b . 83. a . 1 Vent . 273 ; 1 ...
... plaintiff Roger for per- be void , and therefore , it cannot be set up formance of covenants . That Porter et ux . in part . Hob . 14 ; Norton v . Sims , 3 Co. came to court to acknowledge these deeds , 82. b . 83. a . 1 Vent . 273 ; 1 ...
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... plaintiff had a lease for years which was not recorded , of which the defendant notice . Defendant brought an action of ejectment and obtained judgment ; the plaintiff filed a bill for relief against the judgment and to establish his ...
... plaintiff had a lease for years which was not recorded , of which the defendant notice . Defendant brought an action of ejectment and obtained judgment ; the plaintiff filed a bill for relief against the judgment and to establish his ...
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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...