The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1847 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 187 - ... some part of the principal money or some interest thereon shall have been paid or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing, signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable or his agent to the person entitled thereto or his agent, and in such case no such action or suit or proceeding shall be brought but within twenty years after such payment or acknowledgment, or the last of such payments or acknowledgments if more than one was given.
Page 157 - Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely, may be pursued too keenly, may cost too much ; and surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and dissimulation, uneasiness...
Page 187 - Defendants, yet on a bill filed in equity, it was referred to the Master to take an account of what was due to the Plaintiffs, and an issue at law was refused by the Chancellor, who thought the question too clear to be disputed.
Page 140 - Conductor shall not publish any such Essay, Article, or Portion separately or singly without the Consent previously obtained of the Author thereof, or his Assigns : Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall alter or affect the Right of any Person who shall have been or who shall be so employed as aforesaid to publish any such his Composition in a separate Form, who by any Contract, express or implied, may have reserved or may hereafter reserve to himself such Right ; but every Author reserving,...
Page 336 - Thames and was drowned, and the jury found that he voluntarily threw himself into the water, knowing at the time that he should thereby destroy his life, and intending thereby to do so, but at the time of committing the act he was not capable of judging between right and wrong.
Page 188 - December, 1833, no action, or suit, or other proceeding shall be brought, to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment, or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land or rent...
Page 404 - ... for life, and after the death of the survivor, upon trust for the children of the marriage...
Page 50 - ... in case the Court should be of opinion that the plaintiffs were not entitled to have the whole of...
Page 492 - A testator gave and bequeathed all his real and personal estate to his trustees, upon trust, to sell and...
Page 337 - September, 1832, by a certain indenture then made between the dean and chapter of the one part, and the plaintiff of the other part, and which...