The Reports of the Most Learned Sir Edmund Saunders: Late Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench : of Several Pleadings and Cases in the Court of King's Bench in the Time of the Reign of His Most Excellent Majesty King Charles the Second

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Page 228 - ... defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission is cured by the verdict by the common law.
Page 322 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Page 331 - CD, administrator of all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said A. B.
Page 274 - That every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 226 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 298 - Illinois, administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said...
Page 342 - AB, as for his costs and charges by him about his suit in that behalf expended...
Page 274 - ... some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to bo executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 322 - AB within-bounden, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made) in the said court ; then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 274 - That no will or codicil or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or codicil, executed in manner hereinbefore required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some...

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