Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 2Reed and Hunter, 1817 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 369 - 1812, at the parish of Halifax, in the hundred and county aforesaid, divers persons, to the number of twelve and more, being then and there unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, did unlawfully, tumultuously, and with force, demolish, in part, a certain water-mill of the plaintiff, being in the parish aforesaid, in the hundred
Page 571 - That where it shall appear ' to the commissioners, or the major part of them, that there hath ' been mutual credit given by the bankrupt and any other person, ' or mutual debts between the bankrupt and any other person, at any
Page 412 - lawfully issuing, (but exclusive of his eldest son, in case ' of there being two or more such children besides him) ' their heirs and assigns for ever, as tenants in common, ' and not as joint tenants: But in case my said
Page 383 - subject, shall be served on any justice of the peace, for any thing ' by him done in the execution of his office, until notice in writing ' of such intended writ or process shall have been delivered to him, ' or left at the usual place of his abode, by the attorney or agent for
Page 280 - whether he could recover at all on this agreement; and secondly whether, if he could, he should not have declared specially. Mr. Serjt. Best, accordingly, having on a former day obtained a rule nisi to set aside this verdict and enter a nonsuit, Mr. Serjt. Vaughan now
Page 65 - from the making thereof, and be without any power of revocation, reservation, trust, condition, limitation, clause or agreement whatsoever, for the benefit of the donor or grantor, or of any person, or persons claiming under him.
Page 374 - day in this term, obtained a rule to shew cause why this verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence of fraud to justify the finding of the jury.
Page 369 - and against the form of the statute, &c.; whereby, and by force of the statutes in such case made and provided, an action hath accrued to the plaintiff, being the person injured and damnified thereby, to recover against the defendants,
Page 22 - of any will or codicil, to whom any beneficial devise, legacy, ' estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any real or ' personal estate, (except charges on lands,
Page 162 - verdict was found for the plaintiff, with liberty to the defendant to move to set it aside and enter a nonsuit, on the ground that the