The Principles of the Law of Real and Personal Property: Being the Second Book of Blackstone's Commentaries, Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time |
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... whole text of this volume with much care , and has added very considerably to the text of the former editions . It has been his endea- vour throughout to preserve most studiously the original design and arrangement of Blackstone , and ...
... whole text of this volume with much care , and has added very considerably to the text of the former editions . It has been his endea- vour throughout to preserve most studiously the original design and arrangement of Blackstone , and ...
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... whole law of Real Property , and few parts of it can be rightly understood without some knowledge of this doc- trine . It would have been easy to have enlarged many parts of the work ; and the writer was much tempted to do this ...
... whole law of Real Property , and few parts of it can be rightly understood without some knowledge of this doc- trine . It would have been easy to have enlarged many parts of the work ; and the writer was much tempted to do this ...
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... whole that is done in common cases , by both presentation and institution . An advowson donative is when the King , or any subject by his license , doth found a church or chapel , and ordains that it shall be merely in the gift or ...
... whole that is done in common cases , by both presentation and institution . An advowson donative is when the King , or any subject by his license , doth found a church or chapel , and ordains that it shall be merely in the gift or ...
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... whole or part of the twenty years . ' Rights to water and watercourses may be conveniently watercourses . classed under the head of ways . The well settled rule as to these is , that prima facie the proprietor of each bank of a stream ...
... whole or part of the twenty years . ' Rights to water and watercourses may be conveniently watercourses . classed under the head of ways . The well settled rule as to these is , that prima facie the proprietor of each bank of a stream ...
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... whole estate in fee simple , with a certain rent payable thereout , and adds to the deed a covenant or clause of distress , that if the rent be arrear , or behind , it shall be lawful to distrain for the same . In this case the land is ...
... whole estate in fee simple , with a certain rent payable thereout , and adds to the deed a covenant or clause of distress , that if the rent be arrear , or behind , it shall be lawful to distrain for the same . In this case the land is ...
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advowson afterwards alienation ancestor ancient assigns bankrupt called chapter chattels claim collateral common law consent convey conveyance coparcenary copyhold corporeal court courts of equity creditors curtesy custom death debts deed descended devise doctrine dower Eliz emblements enacted entitled equity escheat estate-tail executor father fee-simple feoffment feud feudal forfeiture freehold gavelkind George Stiles grant grantor half blood hath heirs held hereditaments holden husband Ibid inheritance Inst interest issue John Stiles joint-tenants king king's knight-service lands lease lessee liable limited lineal Litt livery of seisin lord male manor ment mortgage nature original owner particular estate parties person possession purchaser quia emptores reason recovery remainder rent rule seised seisin serjeanty Sir Edward Coke socage socage tenure species stat statute tenant in tail tenements tenure term thereof thing tion unless vested Vict villein villenage void warranty whereby wife
Popular passages
Page 235 - 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 38 - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is (u) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant ; or in some cases may be held by prescription, which, as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant.
Page 1 - They are not : there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 509 - French bailler, to deliver, is a delivery of goods in trust, upon a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee.
Page 432 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 2 - ... there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...
Page 365 - 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 589 - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land and all and singular other the premises hereby granted and released and every part and parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances...
Page 6 - 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 386 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio ; but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force: as, payment of rent; performance of covenants in a deed ; or repayment of a principal...