The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, Volume 6O. Richards, 1847 - International law |
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Page 400 - ... sought to be recovered in ejectment, or the landlord or other person in whose right any defendant in replevin may make cognizance, or any person in whose immediate and individual behalf any action may be brought or defended, either wholly or in part...
Page 339 - Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted ... that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy...
Page 334 - The Legislature, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall provide for the...
Page 89 - I am not afraid of offending a most learned body, and most jealous of its reputation for that learning, when I say he is the first of his profession. It is a point settled by those who settle...
Page 342 - To remove a man who has committed no misdemeanour from the parish where he chooses to reside, is an evident violation of natural liberty and justice. The common people of England, however, so jealous of their liberty, but like the common people of most other countries never rightly understanding wherein it consists, have now for more than a century together suffered themselves to be exposed to this oppression without a remedy.
Page 392 - ... go in any other direction if he pleases, he can be said thereby to imprison him. He does him wrong, undoubtedly, if there was a right to pass in that direction, and would be liable to an action on the case for obstructing the passage, or of assault, if, on the party persisting in going in that direction, he touched his person, or so threatened him as to amount to an assault. (^But imprisonment is, as I apprehend, a total restraint of the liberty of the person, for however short a time, and not...
Page 257 - ... burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 257 - ... 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 shall be necessary.
Page 190 - Provided that this act shall not render competent any party to any suit, action or proceeding individually named in the record...
Page 119 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger...