Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 40T. & J.W. Johnson, 1864 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 334 - ... given by any person, shall be of any« force, unless there shall be present some attorney of one of the superior Courts on behalf of such person, expressly named by him, and attending at his request, to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant or cognovit, before the same is executed ; which attorney shall subscribe his name as a witness to the due execution thereof, and thereby declare himself to be attorney for the person executing the same, and state that he subscribes as such attorney.
Page 557 - ... (the act of God, the Queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation of whatever nature and kind soever excepted) unto or to assigns freight for the said goods with primage and average accustomed.
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Page 324 - ... he shall be released from all further or other proceedings, civil or criminal, for the same cause.
Page 262 - One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three no Arrears of Rent or of Interest in respect of any Sum of Money charged upon or payable out of any Land or Rent, or in respect of any Legacy, or any Damages in respect of such Arrears of Rent or Interest, shall be recovered by any Distress, Action, or Suit, but within Six Years next after the same respectively shall have become due...
Page 638 - ... the costs of the cause to abide the event of the award, and the costs of the reference to be in the discretion of the arbitrator.
Page ix - Act, or otherwise by law, the surplus thereof shall be applied under the direction of the council for the public benefit of the inhabitants and improvement of the borough.
Page 388 - At that time he stated that he was not and never had been a member of the Communist Party.
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Page 577 - ... not material to the merits of the case, and by which the opposite party cannot have been prejudiced in the conduct of his action, prosecution, or defence...