 Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the...  Commentaries on the Laws of England,: In Four Books - Page 36by William Blackstone - 1794Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...now speaking of may be reserved to the grantor in gross. V. Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments ; whether public, as those of magistrates ; or private, as of bailiffs,... | |
 | Law - 1839 - 860 pages
...grantor cannot go over the stranger's laud (2 Rol. Ab. 60.) 5. OFFICES, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging.are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of Magistrates, or private,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 1841 - 794 pages
...lees soit fait a le baron, et a safeme a aver et tener a (q) Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are incorporeal hereditaments : whether public, as those of magistrates ; or private, as of bailiffs, receivers,... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - Inheritance and succession - 1842 - 346 pages
...6. t Co. Litt. 19. 20. right of way over the land of another. 5. Offices, or the right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging. 6. Dignities, of which hereafter. 7. Franchises, a term used synonimonsly with liberty, and defined... | |
 | James Lord - Conveyancing - 1844 - 306 pages
...also from the common way which leads from village to village. * 5. Offices are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging; § and all public offices must originally have been created by the sovereign as the fountain of honour.||... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Personal property - 1844 - 684 pages
...raise a presumption of a grant.y V. Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or v. offices, private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments : •whether public, as those of magistrates ; or private, as of bailiffs,... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...pass (A). Offices."] — Offices are also incorporeal hereditaments, consisting in a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging. Dignities.] — Dignities are also a species of incorporeal hereditament, wherein a man may have a... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Trials - 1849 - 762 pages
...counsel •who preceded me, that great writer lays it down, that " offices are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging." Now let me ask, is nnt a seat in this honourable body, "a public employment?" Has not the member "a... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1849 - 474 pages
...employment in the affairs of another, as of the king, or of another person," or "a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, whether public as those of magistrates, or private as of bailiffs, receivers, or the like." Again —... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1851 - 570 pages
...20 Johns. JÎ. 493. A station or employment conferred by election of the people. A right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereto belonging. 2 Bl. Com. 30. 1 Crabb'sReal Prop. 431, § 530. A species of incorporeal hereditament.... | |
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