A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Action of Ejectment: And the Resulting Action for Mesne ProfitsButterworth, 1818 - 407 pages |
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action for mesne action of ejectment admitted adverse possession affidavit aforesaid afterwards appear arrear assign attorney Barn breach Burr Campb casual ejector cestui que trust claim claimant common law Common Pleas confess lease consent rule copyhold costs court of equity covenant declaration in ejectment defendant demise devise Doe d East ejectment is brought enter entitled evidence execution expiration facias forfeiture freehold given Goodright Goodtitle granted heir held holden husband John Doe judgment King's Bench landlord lands lessee levied Litt Lord Lord Ellenborough maintain ejectment ment mesne profits messuage mortgagee necessary non-suit notice to quit parish party person plaintiff plaintiff's lessor plead premises principle proceedings prove proviso re-entry recover remedy rent right of entry Salk scire facias second ejectment shew sion statute Stran sufficient Taunt tenant in possession term testator thereof Thrustout tion trial trustees verdict vide wife witnesses writ of error
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Page 340 - States, do hereby constitute and appoint . my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name...
Page 257 - Kent, or the custom of any borough, or any other particular custom, shall be in writing, and signed by the party so devising the same, or by some other person in his presence and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 362 - And in what manner you shall have executed this our Writ make appear to us in our said Court immediately after the execution thereof, and have there then this Writ.
Page 348 - ... and to hold the same to the said John Doc and his assigns, from the day of , then last past, for and during, and unto the full end and term of years, from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended...
Page 146 - Court where the said suit is depending, by affidavit, or be proved upon the trial, in case the defendant appears, that half a year's rent was due before the said...
Page 146 - ... was served, and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises countervailing the arrears then due, and that the lessor...
Page 84 - ... so that they pursue their title, claim, or interest by way of action, or lawful entry, within five years next after the said proclamations had and made...
Page 152 - ... rent was due before the said writ was served, and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises, countervailing the arrears then due...
Page 342 - ... years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, yielding and paying therefore yearly, and every year during the said term...
Page 228 - landlord"1 ought not, as to this purpose, to extend to every person whose title is connected to and consistent with the possession of the occupier, and divested or disturbed by any claim adverse to such possession ; as in the case of remainders or reversions expectant upon particular estates; secondly, whether it does not extend, as between two persons claiming to be landlords de jure, in right of representation to a landlord de facto, so as to prevent either from recovering by collusion with the...