The Law of Pleading and Evidence in Civil Actions: Arranged Alphabetically: with Practical Forms: and the Pleading and Evidence to Support Them, Volume 1

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R. H. Small, 1844 - Civil procedure - 1038 pages
 

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Page 192 - Faith, in the sum of pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to Our said Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors.
Page 418 - East, 529;) and where an expression is capable of different meanings, that shall be taken which will support the averment, and not the other which would defeat it.
Page 241 - ... committed, provided the person or persons so dealing with such bankrupt, or at whose suit or on whose account such execution or attachment shall have issued, had not at the time of such contract, dealing, or transaction, or at the time of executing or levying such execution or attachment, notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...
Page 457 - Doc and his assigns, from the day of , then last past, for and during, and unto the full end and term of years, from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended...
Page 350 - And the rule of law may be that in all cases where a man is in possession of fixed property he must take care that his property is so used and managed that other persons are not injured, and that, whether his property be managed by his own immediate servants or by contractors or their servants.
Page 458 - 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 336 - Forrester (b) ; and that rule is, that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might, by the exercise of ordinary care, have avoided the consequences of the defendants' negligence, he is entitled to recover : if, by ordinary care, he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong.
Page 398 - The declaration alleged that the defendant undertook to cultivate and manage the farm and lands according to the course of good husbandry and the custom of the country...
Page 98 - ... became and was sick, sore, lame, and disordered, and so remained and continued for a long space of time, to wit...
Page 205 - ... of bankruptcy, respectively, unless the other party in such action shall, if defendant, at or before pleading, and, if plaintiff, before issue joined, give notice in writing to such assignee, commissioner, or other person, that he intends to dispute some and which of such matters...

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