Commentaries on the Laws of England, 3. köideA. Strahan, 1800 |
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... hath been held " , that the diftreinor is not at liberty to work or use a diftreined beaft . And thus the law ftill continues with regard to beafts taken damage - feasant , and diftreffes for fuit or fervices ; which must remain im ...
... hath been held " , that the diftreinor is not at liberty to work or use a diftreined beaft . And thus the law ftill continues with regard to beafts taken damage - feasant , and diftreffes for fuit or fervices ; which must remain im ...
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... hath the true property or jus proprietatis in lands , but is out of poffeffion thereof and hath no right to enter without recovering poffeffion in an action , hath afterwards the freehold caft upon him by fome fubfequent , and of course ...
... hath the true property or jus proprietatis in lands , but is out of poffeffion thereof and hath no right to enter without recovering poffeffion in an action , hath afterwards the freehold caft upon him by fome fubfequent , and of course ...
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... hath hereby gained a new right of poffeffion , to which the law immediately annexes his antient right of property . If the subsequent eftate , or right of poffeffion , be gained by a man's own act or confent , as by immediate purchase ...
... hath hereby gained a new right of poffeffion , to which the law immediately annexes his antient right of property . If the subsequent eftate , or right of poffeffion , be gained by a man's own act or confent , as by immediate purchase ...
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... hath appointed a prodigious variety of courts , fome with a more limited , others with a more extenfive jurifdiction ; fome conftituted to inquire only , others to hear and determine : fome to determine in the firft inftance , others ...
... hath appointed a prodigious variety of courts , fome with a more limited , others with a more extenfive jurifdiction ; fome conftituted to inquire only , others to hear and determine : fome to determine in the firft inftance , others ...
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... the fuperior courts . And , in fubfequent reigns , upon the permanent indifpofition of a judge , a fifth hath been fometimes ap- pointed , Raym . 475 . VI . THE VI . THE Court of king's bench ( fo called 40 BOOK III . PRIVATE.
... the fuperior courts . And , in fubfequent reigns , upon the permanent indifpofition of a judge , a fifth hath been fometimes ap- pointed , Raym . 475 . VI . THE VI . THE Court of king's bench ( fo called 40 BOOK III . PRIVATE.
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Popular passages
Page 109 - I shall for the present only remark, that all possible injuries whatsoever, that did not fall within the exclusive cognizance of either the ecclesiastical, military, or maritime tribunals, are, for that very reason, within the cognizance of the common law courts of justice; for it is a settled and invariable principle in the laws of England, that every right, when withheld, must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress.
Page 105 - The marshalling of coat-armour, which was formerly the pride and study of all the best families in the kingdom, is now greatly disregarded; and has fallen into the hands of certain officers and attendants upon this court, called heralds, who consider it only as a matter of lucre, and not of justice: whereby such falsity and confusion have crept into their records, (which ought to be the standing evidence of families, descents, and...
Page 73 - ... and whereas heretofore such assurers have used to stand so justly and precisely upon their credits, as few or no controversies have arisen thereupon, and if any have grown, the same have from time to time been ended and ordered by certain grave and discreet merchants appointed by the lord mayor of the city of London, as men by reason of their experience fittest to understand, and speedily to decide those causes...
Page 205 - For every man's land is, in the eye of the law, enclosed and set apart from his neighbor's; and that either by a visible and material fence, as one field is divided from another by a hedge, or by an ideal, invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins to another's in the same field.
Page 93 - Causa jactitationis matrimonii ; when one of the parties boasts or gives out that he or she is married to the other, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. On this ground the party injured may libel the other in the spiritual court; and, unless the defendant undertakes and makes out a proof of the actual marriage, he or she is enjoined perpetual silence upon that head ; which is the only remedy the ecclesiastical courts can give for this injury.
Page 155 - Evidence, therefore, of the agreement cannot be received without the writing or secondary evidence of its contents : 1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ; 2.
Page 32 - ... its jurisdiction extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one. So that the injury must be done, complained of, heard, and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer.
Page 134 - That every person committed for treason or felony shall, if he requires it the first week of the next term, or the first day of the next session of oyer and terminer, be indicted in that term or session, or else admitted to bail ; unless the king's witnesses cannot be produced at that time ; and if acquitted, or if not indicted and tried in the second term or session, he shall be discharged from...