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... marriage . It is for Jurisprudence to elucidate the meaning of prescription , in its relation to ownership and to actions ; or to explain the legal aspect of marriage , and its connection with property * 1 It is of course true , as is ...
... marriage . It is for Jurisprudence to elucidate the meaning of prescription , in its relation to ownership and to actions ; or to explain the legal aspect of marriage , and its connection with property * 1 It is of course true , as is ...
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... married woman , the restraint on alienation , the modern rule against perpetuities , and the rules of equitable waste . We can name the Chancellors who first invented them , and state the date when they were first introduced into Equity ...
... married woman , the restraint on alienation , the modern rule against perpetuities , and the rules of equitable waste . We can name the Chancellors who first invented them , and state the date when they were first introduced into Equity ...
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... marriage so contracted , in Decretal iv . 1. 26 . 3 Cod . iv . 22 . In emptis et venditis potius id quod actum quam id quod dictum sit se- quendum est . ' Dig . xviii . 1. 1 . CHAP . VIII . seem that unintentional non - correspondence ...
... marriage so contracted , in Decretal iv . 1. 26 . 3 Cod . iv . 22 . In emptis et venditis potius id quod actum quam id quod dictum sit se- quendum est . ' Dig . xviii . 1. 1 . CHAP . VIII . seem that unintentional non - correspondence ...
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... marriage , or for the probate of a will . The form may be such as to preclude certain classes of persons from doing the act , as ' peregrini ' were in- capable of pronouncing the solemn formula of the stipulation . In other cases the ...
... marriage , or for the probate of a will . The form may be such as to preclude certain classes of persons from doing the act , as ' peregrini ' were in- capable of pronouncing the solemn formula of the stipulation . In other cases the ...
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... marriage ; or in which it may be set aside , e.g. by the ' querela in- officiosi . ' ( 7 ) Whether the inheritance devolves immediately through the operation of the will , or whether any act is necessary on the part of the heir or ...
... marriage ; or in which it may be set aside , e.g. by the ' querela in- officiosi . ' ( 7 ) Whether the inheritance devolves immediately through the operation of the will , or whether any act is necessary on the part of the heir or ...
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Page 75 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 256 - Any absolute assignment, by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to be by way of charge only), of any debt or other legal chose in action, of which express notice in writing shall have been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action...
Page 56 - ... sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.
Page 175 - That, at the determination of the period limited by this act to any person for making an entry or distress, or bringing any writ of quare impedit, or other action or suit, the right and title of such person to the land, rent, or advowson, for the recovery whereof such entry, distress, action, or suit respectively, might have been made or brought within such period, shall be extinguished.
Page 187 - But a license to hunt in a man's park and carry away the deer killed to his own use; to cut down a tree in a man's ground, and...
Page 67 - Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free; for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no further than is for the general good of those under that law.
Page 34 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 109 - Publicum ius est quod ad statum rei Romanae spectat, privatum quod ad singulorum utilitatem: sunt enim quaedam publice utilia, quaedam privatim.
Page 226 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 19 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven• and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...