Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 29 |
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Page 624 - 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 to some person through whom he claims...
Page 509 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 115 - Term last, obtained a rule to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had...
Page 624 - ... obtained the possession or receipt of the profits of such land or the receipt of such rent in respect of such estate or interest then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which such estate or interest became an estate or interest in possession.
Page 218 - In trover for certain goods, being household furniture, a verdict was found for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of this Court on the following case.
Page 562 - ... credit, and to bring him into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace...
Page 145 - ... nor shall the liability of any party to any bill of exchange or promissory note be affected by reason of any statute or law in force for the prevention of usury...
Page 210 - In every species of assumpsit, all matters in confession and avoidance, including not only those by way of discharge, but those which show the transaction to be either void or voidable in point of law, on the ground of fraud or otherwise, shall be specially pleaded ; ex.
Page 624 - And be it further enacted that in the construction of the Act the right to make an entry or distress or bring an action to recover any land or rent shall be deemed to have first accrued at such time as hereafter is mentioned, that is to say, when the person claiming such land or rent or some person through whom he claims...
Page 505 - ... made and signed by any other or others of them : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter, or take away, or lessen the effect of any payment (b) of any principal or interest...