A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates

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J. Butterworth, 1822 - Estates (Law) - 106 pages
 

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Page 723 - B, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to and for his and their own proper...
Page 244 - If a man, having partial interests in an estate, chooses to enter Into a contract, representing it, and agreeing to sell It as his own, It is not competent to him afterwards to say, though he has valuable Interests, he has not the entirety ; and therefore the purchaser shall not have the benefit of his contract For the purpose of this Jurisdiction, the person contracting under those...
Page 694 - ... any annuity or rent-charge shall, from and after the passing of this act, be granted for one or more life or lives...
Page 125 - Then it should be proved as much to the satisfaction of the Court as if it were admitted. The difficulty of this is so great, that there is no instance of its prevailing against a party insisting that there was no mistake.
Page 434 - ... seised or possessed, in trust for him against whom execution is so sued, like as the sheriff or other officer might or ought to have done, if the said party against whom execution...
Page 709 - But as the President presumes that the charter to the bank is to be considered as a contract on the part of the Government, it is not now in the power of Congress to disregard its stipulations ; and by the terms of that contract the public money is to be deposited in the bank during the continuance of its charter, unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall otherwise direct.
Page 43 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorised...
Page 43 - ... all leases, estates, interests of freehold or terms of years, or any uncertain interest of, in, to or out of any messuages, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parol, and not put in writing and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 213 - THURLOW said, that to set aside a conveyance, there must be an inequality, so strong, gross and manifest, that it must be impossible to state it to a man of common sense without producing an exclamation at the inequality of it (1).
Page 72 - ... shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...

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