Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and the Principal Matters, 7. köideC. Hunter, 1824 |
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Page 406 - ... or suffer a discontinuance of such action, or if, upon any demurrer in such action, judgment shall be given for the defendant...
Page 2 - ... knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud any body politic or corporate or any other person or persons whatsoever...
Page 197 - This case has been argued before us by counsel. We have considered it, and are of opinion that the limitation to Philippa Long is good in the events that have happened.
Page 159 - ... in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Page 360 - ... granted for one or more life or lives, or for any term of years, or greater estate, determinable on one or more life or lives...
Page 449 - Bank in the city of , with power also an attorney or attorneys under him for that purpose to make and substitute, with like power, and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute or substitutes shall do therein by virtue of these presents.
Page 95 - Time, unless the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, shall consent to the Appointment of a greater Number.
Page 109 - Majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the service of the year 1810 ; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.
Page 94 - Honour would be pleased to transmit with all convenient dispatch to His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the address of the Commons of this Province, representing to His Royal Highness the violation lately made by the Hon.
Page 545 - The case is too plain for argument. Here is a tenant from year to year, whose term expired upon a proper notice to quit; and, because he holds over in defiance of law and justice, he now attempts to convert the lawful entry of his landlord into a trespass. If an action of trespass had been brought, it is clear that the landlord could have justified under a plea of liberum tencmentum.