A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles : with Notes and References to the WholeG.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1801 - Law |
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9 Viner action adminiſtrator affets affidavit affigned affumpfit alſo anſwer appear arreſt aſſigned attorney Barnes becauſe bill Blackst brought Buller Burr cafe caſe cauſe confideration coſts court debt declaration deed defendant defendant's demiſe deviſed diſcharged Dougl ejectment eſcape eſtate evidence execution executor executrix faid fame firſt fuch heir held houſe indictment intereſt iſſue judgment landlord leaſe leffor leſſor Lord Kenyon Lord Mansfield ment mortgage muſt neceſſary opinion party perſon plaintiff plaintiff in error plea pleaded poffeffion poft poſſeſſion Pract premiſes preſent prifoner proceſs prove quaſhed queſtion qui tam recover refuſed releaſe rent reſpect reverſed rule ſaid ſame ſay ſecond ſerved ſervice ſet aſide ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſheriff ſhew ſhould ſome ſpecial ſtated ſtatute ſuch ſued ſufficient ſum teftator tenant Term Rep theſe thoſe treſpaſs trial Trin truſtees uſe verdict Vide Wilf witneſs writ of error
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Page 7 - ... if there be more than one,) and also the name of the casual ejector: And unless the rule for judgment be drawn up, and taken away from the office of the clerk of the rules...
Page 275 - Now the general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth...
Page 44 - ... days of the next term, the motion for judgment against the casual ejector should regularly be made in the beginning of that term ; and then the tenant must appear within four days, inclusive, after the motion, or the plaintiff will be entitled to judgment.
Page 415 - Promissory Note for Payment of Money, or any Acquittance or Receipt, either for Money or Goods...
Page 340 - First, where a merchant abroad has effects in the hands of his correspondent here, he has a right to expect that he will obey an order to insure, because he is entitled to call his money out of the other's hands when and in what manner he pleases.
Page 31 - Twenty years' adverse possession is a positive title to the defendant : it is not a bar to the action or remedy of the plaintiff only, but takes away his right of possession.
Page 266 - ... a confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it ; and therefore it is rejected.
Page 264 - Defence, becaufe it may be probable that he admitted it out of Apprehenfion that it might be proved, and therefore fuch Admittance ought not to profit him, fo far as to pafs for Truth whatever he fays in Avoidance. But if it had been one...
Page 417 - ... falfely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or caufe or procure to be falfely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or...
Page 275 - ... they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth- a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath in a court of justice.