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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... delivered against one in custody , he has the whole term to plead in abatement . Salk . 515 . If the declaration be delivered in the vacation , or so late in term , that defendant is not bound to plead to it that term ; he may plead in ...
... delivered against one in custody , he has the whole term to plead in abatement . Salk . 515 . If the declaration be delivered in the vacation , or so late in term , that defendant is not bound to plead to it that term ; he may plead in ...
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... delivered to him , but suppresseth it , this writ is directed to the coroner , commanding him to deliver a writ to the sheriff . Reg . Orig . 83 . ACCEPTANCE , acceptatio . ] The taking and accepting of any thing in good part , and as ...
... delivered to him , but suppresseth it , this writ is directed to the coroner , commanding him to deliver a writ to the sheriff . Reg . Orig . 83 . ACCEPTANCE , acceptatio . ] The taking and accepting of any thing in good part , and as ...
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... deliver to another person goods or money beyond sea , to be delivered again to me in England at a certain place , and he delivers it not , I may be relieved by this action . F. N. B. 18 . Accompt may be brought against the following ...
... deliver to another person goods or money beyond sea , to be delivered again to me in England at a certain place , and he delivers it not , I may be relieved by this action . F. N. B. 18 . Accompt may be brought against the following ...
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... delivered to the plaintiff , after defaults , on caution to restore them , if the debt , & c . be disproved in a year and a day ; and if the party refuse to deliver them , he may be imprisoned quousque , & c . March Rep . 204 . The ...
... delivered to the plaintiff , after defaults , on caution to restore them , if the debt , & c . be disproved in a year and a day ; and if the party refuse to deliver them , he may be imprisoned quousque , & c . March Rep . 204 . The ...
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... delivered up . Wills v . Adcock , T. R. 27 . But the instrument declared upon appearing not to be a bill of exchange , the court , on reading the affidavit and the decla- ration , ordered the bail - bond to be given up upon the ...
... delivered up . Wills v . Adcock , T. R. 27 . But the instrument declared upon appearing not to be a bill of exchange , the court , on reading the affidavit and the decla- ration , ordered the bail - bond to be given up upon the ...
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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.