Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880, Volumes 1-2; Volume 21Michie Company, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... present state of human affairs , and of great use in all trading countries . Grotius , who seems to condem the name , allows the thing . He says , Lib . 2. c . 12. there are some things that look like usury , but are parts of another ...
... present state of human affairs , and of great use in all trading countries . Grotius , who seems to condem the name , allows the thing . He says , Lib . 2. c . 12. there are some things that look like usury , but are parts of another ...
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... present is honest , except A. and B .; 74 subject to widows ' dowers ; * shall not and that C. and D. ( who are present also ) be liable to execution ; cannot be are honest . Should I be understood to aliened but by writing ; shall give ...
... present is honest , except A. and B .; 74 subject to widows ' dowers ; * shall not and that C. and D. ( who are present also ) be liable to execution ; cannot be are honest . Should I be understood to aliened but by writing ; shall give ...
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... present question ; but that of our persons ? The civilians say , villeins in gross may . These were uncon- that a law founded on a law of nature , may nected with lands , as much as slaves , and be retrospective , because it always ex ...
... present question ; but that of our persons ? The civilians say , villeins in gross may . These were uncon- that a law founded on a law of nature , may nected with lands , as much as slaves , and be retrospective , because it always ex ...
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... present at the first processioning , but do not say who was present at those subse- quent ; and they referred it to the court , whether these processionings were binding on the plaintiff ? The court below had ad- judged that they were ...
... present at the first processioning , but do not say who was present at those subse- quent ; and they referred it to the court , whether these processionings were binding on the plaintiff ? The court below had ad- judged that they were ...
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... present him to the bishop , who on examination admitted him able , and instituted him into the cure , or refused him altogether ; and a maxim was established of ' once presentative and always presentative . ' 1 Inst . 344. a . This ...
... present him to the bishop , who on examination admitted him able , and instituted him into the cure , or refused him altogether ; and a maxim was established of ' once presentative and always presentative . ' 1 Inst . 344. a . This ...
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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...