New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (Partly Founded on Blackstone).H. Butterworth, 1841 - English law |
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... reason , to take the precedence of that part of the law of persons , at least , which treats of relative rights ; for it is in the nature of the relative rights , viz . those which grow out of the social relations of parent and child ...
... reason , to take the precedence of that part of the law of persons , at least , which treats of relative rights ; for it is in the nature of the relative rights , viz . those which grow out of the social relations of parent and child ...
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... reason , considered merely as clergymen , to be acquainted with many branches of the law , which are almost peculiar and appropriated to themselves alone . Such are the laws relating to advowsons , institutions , and inductions ; to ...
... reason , considered merely as clergymen , to be acquainted with many branches of the law , which are almost peculiar and appropriated to themselves alone . Such are the laws relating to advowsons , institutions , and inductions ; to ...
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... reason it be- comes highly necessary for every civilian and canonist , that would act with safety as a judge , or with prudence and reputation as an advocate , to know in what cases and how far the English laws have given sanction to ...
... reason it be- comes highly necessary for every civilian and canonist , that would act with safety as a judge , or with prudence and reputation as an advocate , to know in what cases and how far the English laws have given sanction to ...
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... reason ; being , in short , that " as the proceedings at " common law were in his time carried on in three different tongues , the English , the Latin , and the French , that " science must be necessarily taught in those three several ...
... reason ; being , in short , that " as the proceedings at " common law were in his time carried on in three different tongues , the English , the Latin , and the French , that " science must be necessarily taught in those three several ...
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... reason , because holy church ( that is , the canon law , ) declared such children legitimate ; but " all the earls and barons ( says the parliament - roll ) ( y ) with one voice answered , that they would not change the laws of England ...
... reason , because holy church ( that is , the canon law , ) declared such children legitimate ; but " all the earls and barons ( says the parliament - roll ) ( y ) with one voice answered , that they would not change the laws of England ...
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Popular passages
Page 146 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 125 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 560 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 554 - ... such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 100 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 308 - It is a rule in law, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail; that always in such cases, 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.
Page 563 - ... unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will by reason of such person having a prior estate tail, or of a preceding gift being, without any implication arising from such words, a limitation of an estate tail to such person or issue, or otherwise...
Page 203 - Temple speaks, a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children, and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Page 470 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel, concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 174 - ... lord paramount, or above all. Such tenants as held under the king immediately, when they granted out portions of their lands to inferior persons, became also lords with respect to those inferior persons, as they were still tenants with respect to the king, and, thus partaking of a middle nature, were called mesne, or middle, lords.