A Dictionary of American and English Law: With Definitions of the Technical Terms of the Canon and Civil Laws. Also, Containing a Full Collection of Latin Maxims, and Citations of Upwards of Forty Thousand Reported Cases in which Words and Phrases Have Been Judicially Defined Or Contrued, Volume 1Frederick D. Linn & Company, 1888 - Law |
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... custom of the manor ; and hence an admittance in such cases is opposed to a vol- lord makes a voluntary grant . See SURRENDER ; untary admittance , which takes place where the GRANT . ADMISSIBLE . - Evidence ( that is , the statements ...
... custom of the manor ; and hence an admittance in such cases is opposed to a vol- lord makes a voluntary grant . See SURRENDER ; untary admittance , which takes place where the GRANT . ADMISSIBLE . - Evidence ( that is , the statements ...
Page 83
... custom in Wales , by which a person accused of crime could clear himself by the oaths of three hundred men . It was abolished by Stat . 1 Hen . V. c . 6. - Cowell ; Spel . Gloss . ASSAULT . - LATIN : ad , to , and saltus , leap- ing . 1 ...
... custom in Wales , by which a person accused of crime could clear himself by the oaths of three hundred men . It was abolished by Stat . 1 Hen . V. c . 6. - Cowell ; Spel . Gloss . ASSAULT . - LATIN : ad , to , and saltus , leap- ing . 1 ...
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... custom of the city or borough . Fitz . N. B. 7 . ASSISE OF MORT D'ANCESTOR . -A real action which lay to recover land of which a person had been deprived on the death of his ancestor by the abatement or intrusion of a stranger . ( 3 Bl ...
... custom of the city or borough . Fitz . N. B. 7 . ASSISE OF MORT D'ANCESTOR . -A real action which lay to recover land of which a person had been deprived on the death of his ancestor by the abatement or intrusion of a stranger . ( 3 Bl ...
Page 103
... custom ; sometimes the incoming tenant is bound to buy the crop of him at a valuation . Woodf . L. & T. 714 ; 1 Sm . Lead . Cas . 598. See EMBLEMENTS . AWM . - A term used in old English statutes , signifying a measure used in measuring ...
... custom ; sometimes the incoming tenant is bound to buy the crop of him at a valuation . Woodf . L. & T. 714 ; 1 Sm . Lead . Cas . 598. See EMBLEMENTS . AWM . - A term used in old English statutes , signifying a measure used in measuring ...
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... custom to the contrary , every mine owner may work up to the boundary of his land , although his doing so may cause injury to his neighbor , e . g . by letting water into his neighbor's mine ; but he is liable BARONS . BARRIER . ( 116 )
... custom to the contrary , every mine owner may work up to the boundary of his land , although his doing so may cause injury to his neighbor , e . g . by letting water into his neighbor's mine ; but he is liable BARONS . BARRIER . ( 116 )
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Page 335 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 242 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has any superintendence entrusted to him whilst in the exercise of such superintendence...
Page 465 - the rule of law is clear, that, where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter, a different state of things, as existing at the same time.
Page 278 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 247 - Association, to contribute to the assets of the Company in the event of its being wound up.
Page 357 - ... that it is bona fide his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 281 - And in £ for money then and there paid by the Plaintiff for the use of the Defendant at his request...
Page 211 - But, next to positive proof, circumstantial evidence or the doctrine of presumptions must take place: for when the fact itself cannot be demonstratively evinced, that which comes nearest to the proof of the fact is the proof of such circumstances which either necessarily, or usually, attend such facts; and these are called presumptions, which are only to be relied upon till the contrary be actually proved.
Page 276 - Exchequer that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law) four things are to be discerned and considered: (1) What was the common law before the making of the act ; (2) what was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide ; (3) what remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth ; (4) the true reason of the remedy.
Page 220 - For every man's land is, in the eye of the law, enclosed and set apart from his neighbor's; and that either by a visible and material fence, as one field is divided from another by a hedge, or by an ideal, invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins to another's in the same field.