... woman be forcibly taken away, and married, she may be a witness against such her husband, in order to convict him of felony. For in this case she can with no propriety be reckoned his wife; because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the... American Law Reports Annotated - Page 4421927Full view - About this book
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...evidence of his wife of an attempt to poison her. Spring Assizes, 1797. and also there is another maxim of law that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong : which the ravisher here would do, if by forcibly marrying a woman, he [444] could prevent her from... | |
| Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanted to the contract. And also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong ; which the ravisherhere would do, if by forcibly marrying a woman, he could prevent ber from being... | |
| Richard Preston - Abstracts of title - 1818 - 484 pages
...should have an actual estate as soon as this contingent interest fails of effect. It is also a maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong. From this principle it flows, that when the tenant for life destroys the contingent remainders, the... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the contract : and also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong ; which he would do, if by forcibly marrying a woman, he could prevent her from being a witness, who... | |
| William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the contract : and also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong; which the ravisher here would do, if by forcibly marrying a woman he could prevent her from being a... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 660 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the contract : and also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong; which the ravisher here would do, if by forcibly marrying a woman he could prevent her from being a... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, is wanting to the contract ; and also there >• another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong ; which the ravisher here would do, if, by forcibly marrying a woman, he could prevent her from being... | |
| Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Thomas Coventry - Land tenure - 1830 - 716 pages
...rent is to be apportioned and is not wholly extinct : and the reason hereof is, for that it is a maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong, and therefore seeing the waste and forfeiture were committed by the act and wrong of the lessee, he shall... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 660 pages
...his debtor, without the concurrence of either of the other parties : for it is a well settled maxim of law that " no man shall take advantage of his own wrong." 3. If there is a debt any where existing, after the satisfaction of the judgement creditor by the officer,... | |
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