Encyclopaedia of the laws of England: with forms and precedents by the most eminent legal authoritiesAlexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1908 |
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... Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. The cold weather and rocky soil of the Northern Colonies ... colony: Virginia 1607 Delaware 1638 Massachusetts 1620 New Hampshire 1623 Pennsylvania 1643 North Carolina 1653 New ...
... Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. The cold weather and rocky soil of the Northern Colonies ... colony: Virginia 1607 Delaware 1638 Massachusetts 1620 New Hampshire 1623 Pennsylvania 1643 North Carolina 1653 New ...
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... colony, that We, our Heirs and Successors, upon Petition in that Behalf to be made, shall, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, GIVE and GRANT unto such Persons, their Heirs and Assigns, as the Council of that Colony, or ...
... colony, that We, our Heirs and Successors, upon Petition in that Behalf to be made, shall, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, GIVE and GRANT unto such Persons, their Heirs and Assigns, as the Council of that Colony, or ...
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... Colony was home to about 14,000 people. Towns and farms spread across Native American hunting grounds and fishing areas. Colonists' cows trampled the natives' gardens. The colonists even expected tribes to obey the colony's laws instead ...
... Colony was home to about 14,000 people. Towns and farms spread across Native American hunting grounds and fishing areas. Colonists' cows trampled the natives' gardens. The colonists even expected tribes to obey the colony's laws instead ...
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... Colonies : Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone , with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof , as follows : - 1. This Ordinance may be cited as " The Lunatics Removal ( West African ...
... Colonies : Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone , with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof , as follows : - 1. This Ordinance may be cited as " The Lunatics Removal ( West African ...
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... colony had really advanced the sum of £ 4,211 7s . 7d . , and as the other colonies for the same services , had been reimbursed in a larger proportion , they conceived themselves greatly aggrieved at these deductions . But even this sum ...
... colony had really advanced the sum of £ 4,211 7s . 7d . , and as the other colonies for the same services , had been reimbursed in a larger proportion , they conceived themselves greatly aggrieved at these deductions . But even this sum ...
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Page 102 - certificate, and warrant or order for the delivery of goods, and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession and control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented
Page 652 - dock warrant, warehouse-keeper's certificate, and warrant or order for the delivery of goods, and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession and control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented
Page 14 - the following proclamation:— Our sovereign lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King.
Page 88 - unless the buyer accepts part of the goods sold, and actually receives the same, or gives something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract is made and signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf;
Page 93 - (whether he be the manufacturer or not), there is an implied condition that the goods shall be reasonably fit for such purpose ; provided that in the case of a contract for the sale of a specified article under its patent or other trade name, there is no implied condition as to its fitness for any particular purpose (s. 14 (1);
Page 319 - to be held by them in trust for the said wife until the said intended marriage, and thereafter upon the trusts, and with and subject to the powers and provisions hereinafter declared of and concerning the same: AND WHEREAS upon the treaty for the said intended marriage it was agreed that these presents should contain such
Page 97 - when goods are sold by a person who is not the owner thereof, and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner, the buyer acquires no better title to the goods than the seller had, unless the owner is by his conduct precluded from denying the seller's authority to sell
Page 52 - I, AB, do utterly testify and declare in my conscience that the Queen's Highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other Her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual and ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal
Page 344 - who being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or marry, then the said [trustees] and the survivors or survivor of them, or the executors or administrators of such survivor, or other the trustees or trustee
Page 96 - and where, in pursuance of the contract, the seller delivers the goods to the buyer or to a carrier or other bailee for the purpose of transmission to the buyer, and does not reserve the right of disposal, he is deemed to have unconditionally appropriated the goods to the contract