The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, Volume 125

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Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead
Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1911 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 566 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 53 - Monypenny for his life, with remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male, with divers remainders over.
Page 86 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say), it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 566 - ... tight, staunch and strong, and in every way fitted for the voyage, shall with all convenient speed sail and proceed to...
Page 630 - ... contract. In such a case, the party cannot recover the remuneration stipulated for in the contract, because he has not done that which was to be the consideration for it. Still, if the other party have derived any benefit from his labour, it would be unjust to allow him to retain that without paying anything.
Page 474 - JLAS during his life, and after the decease of the survivor of them upon trust for...
Page 795 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contained criminating matter which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 37 - And for holding the general council of the kingdom concerning the assessment of aids except in the three cases aforesaid, and for the assessing of scutages, we will cause to be summoned' the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters.
Page 913 - This was a writ of error upon a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, in an action on a policy of insurance upon goods by the Roxalane...
Page 191 - ... do hereby for themselves, severally and respectively, and for their several and respective heirs...

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