Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the Work, Volume 2S. Sweet, 1836 - Law |
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Page xxvii
... lives to preserve them . " Ne- cessity is not a bad argument to sup- port an inference of natural right . But our author , as we have seen , agrees with Heineccius , ( who , as to this mat- ter follows all other writers on natu- ral law ...
... lives to preserve them . " Ne- cessity is not a bad argument to sup- port an inference of natural right . But our author , as we have seen , agrees with Heineccius , ( who , as to this mat- ter follows all other writers on natu- ral law ...
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... lives to preserve them . Hence a property was soon established in every man's house and homestall ; which seem to have been originally mere temporary * huts or moveable [ 5 ] cabins , suited to the design of Providence for more speedily ...
... lives to preserve them . Hence a property was soon established in every man's house and homestall ; which seem to have been originally mere temporary * huts or moveable [ 5 ] cabins , suited to the design of Providence for more speedily ...
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... lives , or twenty - one years . So that now , by virtue of this statute , no real composition made since the * sition made since 13 Eliz . good for longer time than three lives or twenty- one years . ( m ) 2 Inst . 490. Regist . 38 . of ...
... lives , or twenty - one years . So that now , by virtue of this statute , no real composition made since the * sition made since 13 Eliz . good for longer time than three lives or twenty- one years . ( m ) 2 Inst . 490. Regist . 38 . of ...
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... lives , or twenty - one years , though made by consent of the patron and ordinary which has indeed effectually demolished this kind of traffic ; such compositions being now rarely heard of , unless by authority of parliament ( 29 ) ...
... lives , or twenty - one years , though made by consent of the patron and ordinary which has indeed effectually demolished this kind of traffic ; such compositions being now rarely heard of , unless by authority of parliament ( 29 ) ...
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... lives ; for , the guardianship of nurture , as we have just seen , expires at the same time as guardianship in socage does , namely , when the infant attains the age of fourteen . This is not , in the- ory at all events , quite ...
... lives ; for , the guardianship of nurture , as we have just seen , expires at the same time as guardianship in socage does , namely , when the infant attains the age of fourteen . This is not , in the- ory at all events , quite ...
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Page 4 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 4 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 373 - ... no devise in writing of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any clause thereof, shall be revocable, otherwise than by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the same, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the same by the testator himself, or in his presence, and by his directions and consent...
Page 305 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 514 - America to them in hand paid by the party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 11 - For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein...
Page xxiv - They are not : there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 14 - land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows.
Page 318 - Coke defines it1 to be a conveyance of an estate or right in esse, whereby a voidable estate is made sure and unavoidable, or whereby a particular estate is increased : and the words of making it are these, " have given, granted, ratified, approved and confirmed.
Page 467 - ... all persons using the trade of merchandize by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, commission, consignment, or otherwise, in gross or by retail, and all persons who, either for themselves or as agents or factors for others, seek their living by buying and selling, or by buying or letting for hire, or by the workmanship of goods or commodities...