The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1837 |
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... issue , directed to them , com- manding them to convene a vestry meeting within the parish for the purpose of electing a proper person to fill the office of sexton . It appeared , that a person of the name of Garland , who had , for a ...
... issue , directed to them , com- manding them to convene a vestry meeting within the parish for the purpose of electing a proper person to fill the office of sexton . It appeared , that a person of the name of Garland , who had , for a ...
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... issue . At first it did not appear to me that there was any evidence , on the affidavits , of the exist- ence of a custom for the parish to elect a sexton , but , on looking more closely into the affidavits , there does appear to be ...
... issue . At first it did not appear to me that there was any evidence , on the affidavits , of the exist- ence of a custom for the parish to elect a sexton , but , on looking more closely into the affidavits , there does appear to be ...
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... Issue traversing the custom . NEW SERIES , VI . - MAG . CAS . At the trial , at the York Spring Assizes , 1835 , the jury found the existence of the custom , and a verdict passed for the defen- dants . A rule had been obtained , calling ...
... Issue traversing the custom . NEW SERIES , VI . - MAG . CAS . At the trial , at the York Spring Assizes , 1835 , the jury found the existence of the custom , and a verdict passed for the defen- dants . A rule had been obtained , calling ...
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... issue upon the custom ; and the question is , which of the two is liable to repair - the parish , or the particular dis- trict in which a portion of the road is situate ; and it is not competent , upon that issue , to shew that a third ...
... issue upon the custom ; and the question is , which of the two is liable to repair - the parish , or the particular dis- trict in which a portion of the road is situate ; and it is not competent , upon that issue , to shew that a third ...
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... issue , call wit- nesses to prove that he made such state- But in either event , the reading of the deposition is the prisoner's evidence , and the counsel for the prosecution will be entitled to reply . ment . IV . If the only evidence ...
... issue , call wit- nesses to prove that he made such state- But in either event , the reading of the deposition is the prisoner's evidence , and the counsel for the prosecution will be entitled to reply . ment . IV . If the only evidence ...
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Page 132 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to Substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits; and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 120 - An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland ; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia ; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.
Page 13 - An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 27 - ... utterly null and void, and such person so attesting shall be admitted as a witness to prove the execution of such will, or to prove the validity or invalidity thereof, notwithstanding such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, mentioned in such will.
Page 27 - That every Will made by a Man or Woman shall be revoked by his or her Marriage (except a Will made in exercise of a Power of Appointment, when the Real or Personal Estate thereby appointed would not in default of such Appointment pass to his or her Heir, Customary Heir, Executor, or Administrator, or the Person entitled as his or her next of Kin, under the Statute of Distributions) . XIX.
Page 129 - An Act for altering the oath of abjuration and the assurance, and for amending so much of an Act of the seventh year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled: "An Act for the improvement of the Union of the two Kingdoms...
Page 27 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 152 - That if any person shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any...
Page 27 - ... or made, such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will...
Page 150 - ... and on proof of the offence to convict the offender, and to adjudge him to pay the penalty or forfeiture incurred, and to proceed to recover the same, although no information in writing or in print shall have been exhibited or taken by or before such Justice ; and all such proceedings by summons without information shall be as good, valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if an information in writing had been exhibited.