Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, Before Sir William Page Wood, Knt., Vice-chancellor. [1859-1862], Volume 2M. Maxwell, 1863 - Equity |
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Page 563 - That, when the access and use of light to and for any dwelling-house, workshop, or other building, shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible, any local usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, unless it shall appear that the same was enjoyed by some consent or agreement expressly made or given for that purpose by deed or writing.
Page 54 - ... would have been vested in or might have been claimed by, the person making the disposition, at the time of his making the same, and also as against all persons, including the King's most excellent Majesty, whose estates are to take effect after the determination or in defeasance of any such estate tail...
Page 593 - Where the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding expires on a Sunday, or other day on which the offices are closed, and by reason thereof such act or proceeding cannot be done or taken on that day, such act or proceeding shall, so far as regards the time of doing or taking the same, be held to be duly done or taken, if done or taken on the day on which the offices shall next be open.
Page 179 - ... shall extend to manors, advowsons, messuages, and all other hereditaments, whether corporeal or incorporeal (except such as are not liable to dower), and to any share thereof; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing.
Page 782 - Every man must be held responsible for the consequences of a false representation made by him to another upon which a third person acts, and so acting is injured or damnified, provided it appear that such false representation was made with the intent that it should be. acted upon by such third person in the manner that occasions the injury or loss. . . . But to bring it within the principle, the injury, I apprehend, must be the immediate and not the remote consequence of the representation thus made.
Page 370 - ... preferred, and to take before the younger of such sons, and the heirs male of his and their body or respective bodies issuing; AND for default of such issue...
Page 476 - All the rest, residue, and remainder of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever, and of what nature or kind soever...
Page 23 - ... every man must be held responsible for the consequences of a false representation made by him to another, upon which a third person acts, and, so acting, is injured or...
Page 41 - ... and the church or chapel of such district shall be the church of such parish, and all and singular the provisions of the said firstly and secondly recited acts (as amended by this act) relative to new parishes, upon their becoming such, and to the matters and things consequent thereon, shall extend and apply to the said parish and church as fully and effectually as if the same had become a new parish under the provisions of the said last-mentioned acts.
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