The Life and Adventures of a Limb of the Law

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A. Hancock, 1836 - Legal stories - 280 pages
 

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Page 68 - Merchant, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner following: that is to say— I. I give and bequeath unto " The Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital...
Page 68 - Fogarty, all my property both real and personal, to be equally divided between them, share and share alike...
Page 56 - Oh cruel fate ! wilt thou never replace me In a mansion of peace — where no perils can chase me ? Never again, shall my brothers embrace me? They died to defend me, or live to deplore ! Where is my cabin-door, fast by the wild wood? Sisters and sire ! did ye weep for its fall?
Page 58 - Turk, Jew or Atheist may enter here; But not a Papist/ A local wit replied: 'Who wrote it, wrote it well; For the same is written on the Gates of Hell/ That wall, however, was largely dismantled in 1688.
Page 56 - ... foreign land I awaken, And sigh for the friends that can meet me no more ; And thou, cruel Fate ! wilt thou never replace me In a mansion of peace, where no perils can chase me ? Ah ! never again shall my brothers embrace me ! They died to defend me, or live to deplore. Where now is my cabin-door, fast by the wild wood?
Page 67 - ... unanimously agreeing to postpone, till after his interment, a general illumination, which was to have taken place...
Page 205 - ... Court of Session in Scotland ; but on being brought up on appeal to the House of Lords, was given against my nephew. Naturally, my brothers, already pretty well-known men in society, were for a time familiar names to the general public. It was not till some time afterwards that I heard that my brother had suddenly disappeared, and no one knew what had become of him ! In fact, I had been one of the last people who had seen him. For he had left his lodgings on the...
Page 44 - ... stables, six out-houses, six yards, two gardens, two orchards, one hundred acres of arable land, one hundred acres of meadow land, one hundred acres of pasture land, one hundred acres of woodland, one hundred acres of underwood, one hundred acres of land covered with water, and one hundred acres of other land...
Page 217 - ... effect to the utmost rights which the absent party could have claimed, those rights being such as could not affect the interest of the defendants. Thus, where a bill was filed to set aside a release which had been executed in pursuance of a family arrangement, in consequence of which a sum of stock was invested in the names of trustees for the benefit of the plaintiff's wife and unborn children, which benefit would be lost if the release...
Page 239 - ... believed to have been made by Sir Colin. The judge loudly ordered him to sit down, and not to interrupt the proceedings of the court. But the high sheriff would not sit down. Again and again the command went forth, but the sheriff, grateful to his country neighbours, still endeavoured to utter his thanks. Then did the judge exercise a power which they rarely in these days exercise, and never wisely : he told the high sheriff that...

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