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Page 194 - Act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 218 - AND DRAWING AND PERUSING DEEDS, WILLS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS. Such fees for instructions as, having regard to the care and labour required, the number and lengths of the papers to be perused, and the other circumstances of the case, may be fair and reasonable.
Page 193 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 218 - Where a less time than seven hours is so employed per hour 0 15 0 In extraordinary cases the taxing master may increase or diminish the above allowance, if for any special reasons he shall think fit.
Page 217 - Do., do., for deducing title to freehold, copyhold or leasehold property, and perusing and completing conveyance (including preparation of contract, or conditions of sale, if any) 30*.
Page 109 - Act all rents, annuities, dividends, and other periodical payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable under an instrument in writing or otherwise), shall, like interest on money lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
Page 216 - For conducting a sale of property by public auction, including the conditions of sale...
Page 217 - Do., do., for investigating title to freehold, copyhold, or leasehold property, and preparing and completing conveyance (including perusal and completion of contract, if any) 80s.
Page 148 - Court has established the independent personality of a feme covert with respect to property settled to her separate use. It is a remarkable instance of legislation by judicial decision, whereby the old common law has been entirely abrogated and the power of the wife to contract with her husband has been established.