Commentaries on the Laws of England,: In Four Books, Volume 2A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law-printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1794 - Law |
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... " because he had digged that well . " And Ifaac , about ninety years afterwards , reclaimed this his father's e Gen. xxi . 30 . B3 property ; property ; and , after much contention with the Philistines Ch . 1 . 5 of THINGS .
... " because he had digged that well . " And Ifaac , about ninety years afterwards , reclaimed this his father's e Gen. xxi . 30 . B3 property ; property ; and , after much contention with the Philistines Ch . 1 . 5 of THINGS .
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... to seise and enjoy them afterwards . AGAIN ; there are other things , in which a permanent property may fubfift , not only as to the temporary ufe , but alfa alfo the folid fubftance ; and which yet would be 13 The RIGHTS.
... to seise and enjoy them afterwards . AGAIN ; there are other things , in which a permanent property may fubfift , not only as to the temporary ufe , but alfa alfo the folid fubftance ; and which yet would be 13 The RIGHTS.
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... afterwards by the written law of the land " . HOWEVER , arbitrary confecrations of tithes took place again afterwards , and became in general - use till the time of king John . Which was probably owing to the intrigues of the regular ...
... afterwards by the written law of the land " . HOWEVER , arbitrary confecrations of tithes took place again afterwards , and became in general - use till the time of king John . Which was probably owing to the intrigues of the regular ...
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... afterwards * . Some indeed have confidered a free fishery not as a royal franchise , but merely as a private grant of a liberty to fish in the feveral fithery of the grantor ' . But to confider fucli right as originally a flower of the ...
... afterwards * . Some indeed have confidered a free fishery not as a royal franchise , but merely as a private grant of a liberty to fish in the feveral fithery of the grantor ' . But to confider fucli right as originally a flower of the ...
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... afterwards imported by the Normans . For the Saxons were firmly fettled in this island , at least as early as the year 600 : and it was not till two centuries after , that feuds arrived to their full vigour and maturity , even on the ...
... afterwards imported by the Normans . For the Saxons were firmly fettled in this island , at least as early as the year 600 : and it was not till two centuries after , that feuds arrived to their full vigour and maturity , even on the ...
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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 449 - ... upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be In writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 6 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 123 - Therefore, if a man seised in fee-simple hath a son by his first wife, and after marries a second wife, she shall be endowed of his lands ; for her issue might by possibility have been heir on the death of the son by the former wife. But if there be a donee in special tail who holds lands to him and the heirs of his body begotten on Jane his wife : though Jane may be endowed of these lands, yet if Jane dies, and he marries a second wife, that second wife shall never be endowed of the lands entailed;...
Page 8 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 18 - land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it.
Page 117 - For though, as there are no words of inheritance, or heirs, mentioned in the grant, it cannot be construed to be a fee, it shall however be construed to be as large an estate as the words of the donation will bear, and therefore an estate for life.
Page 36 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like.
Page 122 - Tenant by the curtesy of England is where a man marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance, that is, of lands and tenements in fee-simple or feetail, and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England.
Page 18 - For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein: wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I have no right to reclaim it.