The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, Volume 14Owen Richards, 1851 - International law |
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... principles on which they are founded , and the objects to which they are applicable ; and therefore , although our attention must be chiefly directed to the desiderata in the legal machinery of these societies , we shall first attempt ...
... principles on which they are founded , and the objects to which they are applicable ; and therefore , although our attention must be chiefly directed to the desiderata in the legal machinery of these societies , we shall first attempt ...
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... principles on which the tables for Building Societies are generally calculated . The more usual method of disposing of such surplus funds is as follows : when a sufficient amount is in hand for this pur- pose , some of the shares held ...
... principles on which the tables for Building Societies are generally calculated . The more usual method of disposing of such surplus funds is as follows : when a sufficient amount is in hand for this pur- pose , some of the shares held ...
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... principles . Indeed , the object of the Legislature appears to have been to give assistance to borrowers rather than to investers . For the Act recites that Building Societies were established for the purpose of raising a fund to assist ...
... principles . Indeed , the object of the Legislature appears to have been to give assistance to borrowers rather than to investers . For the Act recites that Building Societies were established for the purpose of raising a fund to assist ...
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... principles of simple interest are inapplicable to Building Societies , and the plan itself seems complicated , and likely to work with unfairness . See and compare 10 Geo . 4. c . 56. s . 32. with 13 & 14 Vict . c . 115. s . 33 . VOL ...
... principles of simple interest are inapplicable to Building Societies , and the plan itself seems complicated , and likely to work with unfairness . See and compare 10 Geo . 4. c . 56. s . 32. with 13 & 14 Vict . c . 115. s . 33 . VOL ...
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... principle would , if carried out , exclude joint tenants as well as a joint Stock Company from being such members . We can only say that if this be the effect of the decision , its results would be fraught with the utmost inconvenience ...
... principle would , if carried out , exclude joint tenants as well as a joint Stock Company from being such members . We can only say that if this be the effect of the decision , its results would be fraught with the utmost inconvenience ...
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Page 275 - Upon this, I who took the boldness to speak freely before the cardinal, said, there was no reason to wonder at the matter, since this way of punishing thieves, was neither just in itself, nor good for the public ; for as the severity was too great, so the remedy was not effectual : simple theft not being so great a crime, that it ought to cost a man his life ; no punishment, how severe soever, being able to restrain those from robbing, who can find out no other way of livelihood. In this...
Page 111 - Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach tree, and vines scattered among them; so that the whole ground is covered with the oddest mixture of these plants and bulging rocks, that can be conceived. The inhabitants of this village deserve encouragement for their industry; and if I were a French minister they should have it.
Page 108 - The peasants are not, as with us, for the most part, totally cut off from property in the soil they cultivate, totally dependent on the labour afforded by others — they are themselves the proprietors. It is, perhaps, from this cause that they are probably the most industrious peasantry in the world. They labour busily, early and late, because they feel that they are labouring for themselves.
Page 111 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 119 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Page 275 - not only you in England, but a great part of the world, imitate some ill masters, that are readier to chastise their scholars than to teach them. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
Page 117 - That where any person or persons stand or be seised, or at any time hereafter shall happen to be seised, of and in any honors, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence or trust of any other person or persons...
Page 275 - ... as he said, were then hanged so fast, that there were sometimes twenty on one gibbet; and upon that he said he could not wonder enough how it came to pass, that since so few escaped, there were yet so many thieves left who were still robbing in all places.