The Law Lexicon, Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence: Explaining All the Technical Words and Phrases Employed in the Several Departments of English Law: Including Also the Various Legal Terms Used in Commercial Transactions; Together with an Explanatory as Well as Literal Translation of the Latin Maxims Contained in the Writings of the Ancient and Modern Commentators |
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... party has slept upon his right , and acquiesced for a great length of time . Nothing can call forth this Court into activity but conscience , good faith , and reasonable diligence : where these are wanting the Court is passive and does ...
... party has slept upon his right , and acquiesced for a great length of time . Nothing can call forth this Court into activity but conscience , good faith , and reasonable diligence : where these are wanting the Court is passive and does ...
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... party . It is not every case of accident , which will justify the interposition of a Court of Equity . The ju- risdiction being concurrent , will be main- tained only ; first , when a Court of Law cannot grant suitable relief ; and ...
... party . It is not every case of accident , which will justify the interposition of a Court of Equity . The ju- risdiction being concurrent , will be main- tained only ; first , when a Court of Law cannot grant suitable relief ; and ...
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... party of his right , in order to obtain a judicial determination . Scotch Dict . ACTIONARE ( in jus vocare ) , to ... party , as indeed we might conclude from the word itself . In a private action , the defen- dant was often called ...
... party of his right , in order to obtain a judicial determination . Scotch Dict . ACTIONARE ( in jus vocare ) , to ... party , as indeed we might conclude from the word itself . In a private action , the defen- dant was often called ...
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... party accused , in order to prove that he could not have committed the crime with which he is charged , offers evidence that he was in a different place at the time the offence was being committed . Encyc . Lond . ALIEN , a person born ...
... party accused , in order to prove that he could not have committed the crime with which he is charged , offers evidence that he was in a different place at the time the offence was being committed . Encyc . Lond . ALIEN , a person born ...
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... party delivering it . ) Ambiguitas verborum latens , verificatione supple- tur ; nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum verificatione facti tollitur . Bacon .- ( An hidden ambiguity of the words is supplied by the verification , for whatever ...
... party delivering it . ) Ambiguitas verborum latens , verificatione supple- tur ; nam quod ex facto oritur ambiguum verificatione facti tollitur . Bacon .- ( An hidden ambiguity of the words is supplied by the verification , for whatever ...
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Page 203 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 10 - ... in every case where any accumulation shall be directed otherwise than as aforesaid, such direction shall be null and void, and the rents, issues, profits, and produce of such property so directed to be accumulated, shall, so long as the same shall be directed to be accumulated contrary to the provisions of this Act, go to and be received by such person or persons as would have been entitled thereto if such accumulation had not been directed.
Page 143 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? — King or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 208 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued...
Page 10 - That no person or persons shall, after the passing of this Act, by any deed or deeds, surrender or surrenders, will, codicil or otherwise howsoever, settle or dispose of any real or personal property, so and in such manner that the rents, issues, profits or produce thereof shall be wholly or partially accumulated, for any longer term than the life or lives of any such grantor or grantors, settlor or settlors ; or the term of twentyone years from the death of any such grantor, settlor, devisor or...
Page 39 - It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another...
Page 158 - That upon all debts or sums certain payable at a certain time, or otherwise, the jury on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor, at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest, from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums certain be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time...
Page 388 - Law, nor any order in bankruptcy or lunacy shall by virtue of this act affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as to purchasers, mortgagees, or creditors, unless and until a memorandum or minute, containing the name, and the usual or last known place of abode, and the title, trade, or profession...
Page 328 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent, and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 234 - Homicide per infortunium or misadventure is where a man, doing a lawful act without any intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another ; as where a man is at work with a hatchet, and the head thereof flies off...