Transactions, Volume 14

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Page 175 - A replevin is a justicial writ to the sheriff, complaining of an unjust taking and detention of goods or chattels, commanding the sheriff to deliver back the same to the owner, upon security given to make out the injustice of such taking, or else to return the goods and chattels.
Page 123 - Any land yields just as much more than the ordinary profits of stock, as it yields more than what is returned by the worst land in cultivation. The surplus is what the farmer can afford to pay as rent to the landlord ; and since, if he did not so pay it, he would receive more than the ordinary rate of profit, the competition of other capitalists, that competition which equalizes the profits of different capitals, will enable the landlord to appropriate it.
Page viii - They have the privilege of being present and taking part in all Ordinary General Meetings, and of access to the Library, but no right of voting, discussing or otherwise interfering in the affairs of the Institution ; nor...
Page 122 - ... may from time to time during the continuance of such tenancy apply to the court to fix the fair rent to be paid by such tenant to the landlord...
Page 104 - Act. 19. Where a tenant commits or permits waste, or commits a breach of a covenant or other agreement connected with the contract of tenancy, and the tenant claims compensation under...
Page vii - Surveyor, viz. — the art of determining the value of all descriptions of landed, mineral and house property, and of the various interests therein ; the practice of managing and developing estates ; and the science of admeasuring and delineating the physical features of the earth, and of measuring and estimating artificers
Page 293 - A printed copy of the rules of the society shall be delivered by the society to any person requiring the same, on payment of a sum not exceeding one shilling (24 cents).
Page 226 - ... within their several dioceses, shall procure (as much as in them lieth) that a true note and terrier of all the glebes, lands, meadows, gardens, orchards, houses, stocks, implements, tenements, and portions of tithes lying out of their parishes (which belong to any parsonage, or vicarage, or rural prebend), be taken by the view of honest men in every parish, by the appointment of the bishop (whereof the minister to be one), and be laid up in the bishop's registry, there to be for a perpetual...
Page 195 - On the other hand, distress extends not merely to the goods of the tenant himself, but to all goods on the premises, whether belonging to the tenant or to a stranger ; which hypothec did not.
Page 226 - ... prisoners, and particularly condemned persons. For admitting converts from the Church of Rome, and such as shall renounce their errors. For restoring those who have relapsed. " The establishing rural deans where they are not, and rendering them more useful where they are.

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