New Reports of Cases Argued and Determined, in the Court of Common Pleas, and Other Courts, from Easter Term, 44 Geo. III. 1804, to Trinity Term, 45 Geo. III. 1805, Both Inclusive: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 1Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords A. Strahan, law printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1806 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 159 - Doe and his assigns, from the day of in the year aforesaid, for and during and unto the full end and term of years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended.
Page 334 - God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form...
Page 254 - ... shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 237 - A rule having been obtained calling on the plaintiff to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had...
Page 384 - Case; who says, that the devise of a farm may be for twenty lives, one after another, if all be in existence at once. By this expression he must be understood to mean any number of lives, the extinction of which could be proved without difficulty. When this subject of executory trusts came to be examined by the great powers of Lord Nottingham as to the time, within which the contingency must happen, he thus expresses himself : "If a term be devised, or the trust of a term limited, to one for life...
Page 388 - Princess; and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 388 - I go upon is, that the plaintiff was en ventre sa mere at the time of her brother's death, and consequently a person in rerum natura: so that by the rules of the common and civil law she was, to all intents and purposes, a child, as much as if born in the father's lifetime.
Page 181 - ... if the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.
Page 322 - Michael, and for the better preferment and advancement, covenanted to stand seised of the premises conveyed, to the use of himself for life, and, after his decease, to the use of his...
Page 320 - ... and the heirs male of such son, and, for default of such issue, to the second son of her body, " if living at the time of her death," and the heirs male of such second son, &c.