Blackstone Economized: Being a Compendium of the Laws of England to the Present Time ... Embracing the Legal Principles and Practical Information Contained in ... Blackstone, Supplemented by Subsequent Statutory Enactments, Important Legal Decisions, EtcLongmans, 1873 - 352 pages |
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... gives it its weight and authority , and of this nature are the maxims and customs which compose the com- mon law , or lex non scripta of this kingdom . Explain these General Customs of the Common Law . The unwritten or Common Law is ...
... gives it its weight and authority , and of this nature are the maxims and customs which compose the com- mon law , or lex non scripta of this kingdom . Explain these General Customs of the Common Law . The unwritten or Common Law is ...
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... gives it a new beginning , which , if within time of memory , the custom will be void . This must be understood only with regard to an interruption of the right ; for an interruption of the possession for ten or twelve years will not ...
... gives it a new beginning , which , if within time of memory , the custom will be void . This must be understood only with regard to an interruption of the right ; for an interruption of the possession for ten or twelve years will not ...
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... gives place to the statute , and an old statute gives place to a new one . 8. If a statute that repeals another is itself repealed afterwards , the first statute is thereby revived without any formal words for that purpose . * * By 13 ...
... gives place to the statute , and an old statute gives place to a new one . 8. If a statute that repeals another is itself repealed afterwards , the first statute is thereby revived without any formal words for that purpose . * * By 13 ...
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... Give a brief account of the Past and Present Forms of the Indian Government , and explain also our Terri- torial Possessions in India . Previously to 1708 , two trading associations existed in Eng- land , and in that year they were ...
... Give a brief account of the Past and Present Forms of the Indian Government , and explain also our Terri- torial Possessions in India . Previously to 1708 , two trading associations existed in Eng- land , and in that year they were ...
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... give 66 a brief outline of each . The ECCLESIASTICAL division is primarily divided into two provinces , those of Canterbury and York . A province is the circuit of an archbishop's jurisdiction , and each province contains divers ...
... give 66 a brief outline of each . The ECCLESIASTICAL division is primarily divided into two provinces , those of Canterbury and York . A province is the circuit of an archbishop's jurisdiction , and each province contains divers ...
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Page 146 - Chancellor in matters of lunacy, whereby any sum of money, or any costs, charges, or expenses, shall be payable to any person, shall have the effect of judgments in the superior Courts of common law...
Page 180 - In considering this very interesting question we immediately ask ourselves, what is a contract? Is a grant a contract? A contract is a compact between two or more parties, and is either executory or executed. An executory contract is one in which a party binds himself to do or not to do a particular thing; such was the law under which the conveyance was made by the governor.
Page 57 - By the laws of England, every Invasion of private property, be it ever so minute. is a trespass.
Page 34 - Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.
Page 193 - And, first, it is necessary to premise, that a distress,! districtio, \ is the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of the wrong-doer into the custody of the party injured, to procure a satisfaction for the wrong committed.^ 1.
Page 279 - This general law is founded upon this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little harm as possible, without prejudice to their own real interests.
Page 47 - Lastly, acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity : and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void.
Page 168 - 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 307 - So where a parent is moderately correcting his child, a master his apprentice or scholar, or an officer punishing a criminal, and happens to occasion his death, it is only misadventure ; for the act of correction was lawful...
Page 167 - ... apparent on the face of the will that the testator intended to give effect by such his signature to the writing signed as his will...