The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the British Law: Defining and Interpreting the Terms Or Words of Art, and Comprising Also Copious Information on the Subjects of Trade and Government, Volume 1J. and W. T. Clarke; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835 - Law |
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... contract , to satisfy him with some recompence ; which accord , if executed and performed , shall be a good bar in law , if the other party after the accord performed , bring an action for the same trespass , & c . Terms de Ley . When a ...
... contract , to satisfy him with some recompence ; which accord , if executed and performed , shall be a good bar in law , if the other party after the accord performed , bring an action for the same trespass , & c . Terms de Ley . When a ...
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... contract , which is thereby merged and discharged in the ac- compt ; if A. sells his horse to B. for 101. and there being divers other dealings between them , they come to an accompt upon the whole , and B. is found in arrear 51. A ...
... contract , which is thereby merged and discharged in the ac- compt ; if A. sells his horse to B. for 101. and there being divers other dealings between them , they come to an accompt upon the whole , and B. is found in arrear 51. A ...
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... contract for the eating and drinking of the testator . 9 Rep . 87. But an action on the case on promises will lie against an executor or administrator on the promises of their testator or intestate . In all actions merely personal ...
... contract for the eating and drinking of the testator . 9 Rep . 87. But an action on the case on promises will lie against an executor or administrator on the promises of their testator or intestate . In all actions merely personal ...
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... contract posing B. did not in fact say so . Cro . Jac . 406 : see 1 Roll . either express or implied by law , and the verdict gives the Abr . 64 . party damages in proportion to the loss he has sustained by the It is to be observed in ...
... contract posing B. did not in fact say so . Cro . Jac . 406 : see 1 Roll . either express or implied by law , and the verdict gives the Abr . 64 . party damages in proportion to the loss he has sustained by the It is to be observed in ...
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... contract destroyed the original parol contract , which a mere writing would not have done ; and as that new contract was made on land , though out of the king's dominions , still it was not within the admiralty jurisdiction . It cannot ...
... contract destroyed the original parol contract , which a mere writing would not have done ; and as that new contract was made on land , though out of the king's dominions , still it was not within the admiralty jurisdiction . It cannot ...
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Page 88 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 78 - That if any bankrupt, at the time he becomes bankrupt, shall, by the consent and permission of the true owner thereof, have in his possession, order, or disposition, any goods or chattels whereof he was reputed owner...
Page 6 - An annuity is a yearly payment of a certain sum of money, granted to another in fee, for life, or years, charging the person of the grantor only.
Page 71 - ... all persons using the trade of merchandise by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, commission, consignment, or otherwise, in gross or by retail, and all persons who either for themselves or as agents or factors for others seek their living by buying and selling, or by buying and letting for hire, or by the workmanship of goods or commodities...
Page 82 - ... due on either side on the balance of such account, and no more, shall be claimed or paid on either side respectively...
Page 24 - It seems that an assault is an attempt, or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporal hurt to another; as by striking at him with, or without, a weapon; or presenting a gun at...
Page 79 - ... transferred to any of his children, or any other person, any hereditaments, offices, fees, annuities, leases, goods, or chattels, or have delivered or made over to any such person any bills, bonds, notes, or other securities, or have transferred his debts to any other person or...
Page 95 - And therefore if a woman commit theft, burglary, or other civil offences against the laws of society, by the coercion of her husband, or even in his company, (which the law construes a coercion,) she is not guilty of any crime ; being considered as acting by compulsion, and not of her own will.