Cases in the Exchequer

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Page 292 - ... attested by two or more credible witnesses, or by her " last will and testament in writing, or any writing in the
Page 148 - Saund. 228, n. (1), it is said, that, " where there is any defect, imperfection, or omission in any pleading, whether in substance or form, which would have been a fatal objection upon demurrer ; yet, if the issue joined be such as necessarily required on the trial proof of the facts so defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or...
Page 245 - England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there...
Page 148 - Certainty to a certain intent in general is a higher degree than the last and means what, upon a fair and reasonable construction, may be called certain without recurring to possible facts which do not appear...
Page 280 - E., now moved for a rule, to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial...
Page 4 - JJ Powell, on behalf of the prosecutor, moved, upon affidavits, for a rule calling upon the defendant to shew cause why the prosecutor should not be at liberty to proceed to the trial of the indictment, notwithstanding the nolle prosequi.
Page 271 - By the general law, and of common right, all the pews in a parish church are the common property of the parish; they are for the use in common of the parishioners, who are all entitled to be seated orderly and conveniently, so as best to provide for the accommodation of all.
Page 460 - Tarleton and his assigns for his life without impeachment of waste; with remainder to the use of the said WR Cosway and E.
Page 605 - Barker, for and during the term of his natural life; without impeachment of or for any manner of waste...
Page 313 - It should also be observed, that if ' one has a legal and illegal warrant, and arrests by virtue of the illegal warrant, yet he may justify by virtue of the legal one ; for it is not what he declares, but the authority which he has is his justification,

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