A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents and Forms of Practice; Chiefly Consisting of Such as Have Never Before Been Printed; with an Index to the Principal Work, Incorporating and Making it a Continuation of Townshend's and Cornwall's Tables, to the Present Time; as Well as an Index of Reference to All the Ancient and Modern Entries Extant, Volume 5

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G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797 - Pleading

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Page 517 - Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to...
Page 446 - Neceffity, neither is he obliged by the Law of the Land, in any manner to anfwer: And this he is ready to verify. Wherefore, for want of a fufficient...
Page 322 - ... and this he is ready to verify; wherefore he prays judgment if the plaintiff ought further to maintain his action.
Page 29 - ... according to the form of the ftatute in fuch cafe made and provided...
Page 44 - ... from the day next before the day of the date of the same indenture of bargain and sale, and by force of the statute made for transferring uses into possession), ALL THAT [parcels, general words : All the estate clause].
Page 9 - Lindley, his executors, administrators, and assigns from the day of , for and during, and unto the full end and term of twenty-one years, from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended " and opposite to the blank in the habendum was the following marginal note.
Page 531 - Thereupon the sheriff is commanded that he cause to come here, on the day of twelve &c. by whom &c. and who neither &c. to recognize &c. because as well &c.
Page 263 - Hibaldstow, there now is, and, from time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary, there hath been a certain ancient and laudable custom, there used and approved of, that is to say, that every tenant and...
Page 435 - CD (in his actual possession, now being- by virtue of a bargain and sale to him thereof made by the said CD in consideration of 5$. in and by an indenture bearing date the day next before the day of the date of...
Page 175 - William hath not hitherto paid : and this he is ready to verify. Wherefore he prays judgment, and his debt aforefaid, together with his damages occafioned by the detention of the Dirr.urrcr.

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