Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property, Volume 1C. W. Sever, 1888 - Personal property |
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... [ Reported 2 Y. & C. Ex . 268.1 ] ALDERSON , B. , delivered the judgment of the court : This was a bill praying in substance that the defendant Margaret Brent , widow and executrix of Timothy Brent , deceased , may account for certain ...
... [ Reported 2 Y. & C. Ex . 268.1 ] ALDERSON , B. , delivered the judgment of the court : This was a bill praying in substance that the defendant Margaret Brent , widow and executrix of Timothy Brent , deceased , may account for certain ...
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... [ Reported 6 E. & B. 842. ] REPLEVIN . Plea : Non cepit . Issue thereon . The cause came on to be tried before Crowder , J. , at the last Spring Assizes for Devon . The following account of the facts which then appeared in evidence is ...
... [ Reported 6 E. & B. 842. ] REPLEVIN . Plea : Non cepit . Issue thereon . The cause came on to be tried before Crowder , J. , at the last Spring Assizes for Devon . The following account of the facts which then appeared in evidence is ...
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... [ Reported 2 Phil . 382. ] THE principal object of this suit was to restrain the sale of certain furniture by the defendant Rowcliffe , and to have it delivered up to the plaintiff as the rightful owner . Rowcliffe claimed the furniture ...
... [ Reported 2 Phil . 382. ] THE principal object of this suit was to restrain the sale of certain furniture by the defendant Rowcliffe , and to have it delivered up to the plaintiff as the rightful owner . Rowcliffe claimed the furniture ...
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... [ Reported 20 Johns . 75. ] IN ERROR , on certiorari to a justice's court . Plif wounded dur but it raw away . Dift . finally killed . Did feif Newkirk brought an action of trover against Buster for a deer sin . pildit It appeared that N ...
... [ Reported 20 Johns . 75. ] IN ERROR , on certiorari to a justice's court . Plif wounded dur but it raw away . Dift . finally killed . Did feif Newkirk brought an action of trover against Buster for a deer sin . pildit It appeared that N ...
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... reported to have said that the usage for the first iron , whether attached to the boat or not , to hold the whale , was fully established , and that one witness carried it back to the year 1800. He added , that although local usages of ...
... reported to have said that the usage for the first iron , whether attached to the boat or not , to hold the whale , was fully established , and that one witness carried it back to the year 1800. He added , that although local usages of ...
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Page 255 - In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, one of which being accomplished, the other two to stand void.
Page 433 - June all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing, signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 170 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Page 255 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 726 - Upon this subject it has been provided that every mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage, of goods and chattels, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change
Page 202 - ... affinity, to expect some benefit or advantage from the continuance of the life of the assured. Otherwise the contract is a mere wager, by which the party taking the policy is directly interested in the early death of the assured. Such policies have a tendency to create a desire for the event. They are, therefore, independently of any statute on the subject, condemned, as being against public policy.
Page 428 - ... to all intents, constructions, and purposes in the law, of and in such like estates, as they had or shall have in use, trust, or confidence of or in the same...
Page 202 - But in all cases there must be a reasonable ground, founded upon the relations of the parties to each other, either pecuniary or of blood or affinity, to expect some benefit or advantage from the continuance of the life of the assured.
Page 651 - The rule to be collected from the several cases decided on this subject seems to be this, that the tenant's right to remove fixtures continues during his original term, and during such further period of possession by him, as he holds the premises under a right still to consider himself as tenant.
Page 413 - ... from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, yielding and paying...