The Common Law Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in All the Superior Courts of Common Law, Together with Cases Carried by Writs of Error from Those Courts to the Exchequer Chamber, Or Thence by Appeal to the House of Lords : Also Cases Carried by Appeal from the Colonial Common Law Courts to the Privy Council, Volume 1A. & G.A. Spottiswoode, 1854 - Common law |
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Page 641 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 365 - Steamship, being tight, staunch and, strong, and in every way fitted for the voyage...
Page 716 - ... a part thereof), any person by whom the same or any part thereof shall be then actually occupied shall neglect or refuse to quit and deliver up possession of the premises...
Page 80 - ... and if such party desire to have the same settled by arbitration, it shall be lawful for him to give notice in writing to the promoters of the undertaking of such his desire, stating in such notice the nature of the interest...
Page 269 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 180 - ... or cause to be made either within this realm, or elsewhere, any fraudulent grant or conveyance of any of his lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, or make or cause to be made any fraudulent surrender of any of his copyhold lands or tenements, or make or cause to be made any fraudulent gift, delivery, or transfer of any of his goods or chattels...
Page 690 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof ; and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim. and demand whatsoever of the said parties of the first part, either in law or equity, of.
Page 927 - If the line of the railway cross any turnpike road or public highway, then (except where otherwise provided by the special Act) either such road shall be carried over the railway, or the railway shall be carried over such road, by means of a bridge, of the height and width and with the ascent or descent by this or the special Act in that behalf provided ; and such bridge, with the immediate approaches, and all other necessary works connected therewith, shall be executed and at all times thereafter...
Page 641 - That, when any person shall be in possession or in receipt of the profits of any land, or in receipt of any rent, as tenant at will, the right of the person entitled subject thereto, or of the person through whom he claims, to make an entry or distress, or...
Page 417 - Where a man pays money by his agent, which ought not to have been paid, either the agent or principal may bring an action to recover it back. The agent may from the authority of the principal, and the principal may as proving it to have been paid by his agent.