Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: With Table of the Names of Cases and Digest of the Principal Matters, Volume 3; Volume 95Henry Butterworth, 1839 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 71 - ... interest in possession, granted, appointed, or otherwise assured by any instrument (other than a will) to him, or some person through whom he claims, by a person being in respect of the same estate or interest in the possession or receipt of the profits of the land, or in the receipt of the rent...
Page 59 - Ireland king, defender of the faith, in the sum of pounds, of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid to...
Page 69 - ... license,, covenant, or agreement, are of themselves sufficient, and will in construction of law amount to a lease for years as effectually as if the most proper and pertinent words had been made use of for that purpose...
Page 131 - No set-off of damages or costs between parties shall be allowed to the prejudice of the attorney's lien for costs in the particular suit against which the set-off is sought, provided, nevertheless, that interlocutory costs in the same suit, awarded to the adverse party, may be deducted.
Page 73 - December, 1833, 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 71 - 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 272 - that, where there are mutual debts between the plaintiff and defendant, one debt may be set against the other...
Page 141 - ... contrary to the tenor and effect, true intent and meaning of the said indenture, and of the said covenant of the defendant, by him in that behalf so made as aforesaid.
Page 236 - I give, devise, and bequeath unto and as to all the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever...
Page 24 - That every Bankrupt who shall have •duly surrendered and in all Things conformed himself to the Laws in force concerning Bankrupts at the Time of issuing the Commission against him shall be discharged from all Debts due by him when he became bankrupt...