The English Reports: Common Pleas (1486-1865), Volume 137

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W. Green, 1913 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 495 - Dec. 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 348 - A verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages 331., leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter a nonsuit, if the court should be of opinion that the objection was well founded.
Page 101 - Easter term last, moved for a rule to shew cause why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of the trial having been improperly allowed to take place in the absence of Dr.
Page 27 - I think that where money is paid to another under the influence of a mistake, that is, upon the supposition that a specific fact is true, which would entitle the other to the money, but which fact is untrue, and the money would not have been paid if it had been known to the payer that the fact was untrue, an action will lie to recover it back, and it is against conscience to retain it...
Page 231 - ... the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to the person making or bringing the same.
Page 495 - And by s. 2, it is enacted, that 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 345 - ... delivered unto the party to be charged therewith, or sent by the post to or left for him at his counting-house, office of business, dwelling-house, or last known place of abode...
Page 531 - That an act done for another, by a person, not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well established rule of law.
Page 50 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of...
Page 142 - ... and the stocks, funds, and securities in or upon which the same might...

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