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Page 10 - If a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money or other act...
Page 308 - And by s. 2, it is enacted, that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims; or if such right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims, then within twenty years next after the time at which the right shall have first accrued to the person making or bringing...
Page 397 - ... such possession or receipt, then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time of such dispossession, or discontinuance of possession, or at the last time at which any tuch profits or rent were or was so received...
Page 409 - ... to make an entry or distress, or to bring " an action to recover such land or rent, shall have first ac...
Page 408 - ... limited shall have expired make an entry or distress or bring an action to recover such land or rent...
Page 403 - That, when any person shall be in possession or in receipt of the profits of any land, or in receipt of any rent, as tenant at will, the right of the person entitled subject thereto, or of the person through whom he claims, to make an entry or distress, or...
Page 399 - ... shall have been in such possession or receipt then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which the person claiming as aforesaid or the person through whom he claims became entitled to such possession or receipt by virtue of such instrument.
Page 157 - It is clear that a creditor has an insurable interest in the life of his debtor...
Page 308 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 147 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
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| Title | A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes, Volume 2, Part 1 A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes, John William Smith |
| Author | John William Smith |
| Publisher | A. Maxwell, 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2006 |
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