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Page 110 - shall be of as much force and effect as the surest writing or policy of assurance heretofore made in Lombard Street." We know also that the earliest policies issued in London of which we have any certain knowledge were written in Italian with English translations attached.
Page 678 - Counsel, a learning which Shakespeare with fine audacity attributes to no less a person than the Prince of Denmark when he says, " This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines,
Page 253 - and New York, and in 1786 by Delaware. This is still in existence under the form of a national banking association. Another was " The Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Church of England in America," which received charters from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (1785). Each authorized the
Page 526 - of the servant's damnation. But this is not so; the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his servant; for they purpose not their death when they purpose
Page 679 - double -vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of his
Page 302 - hereditaments held or occupied by the defendant in an action on the case for the use and occupation of what was so held and enjoyed; and if, in evidence on the trial of such action, any parol demise or agreement, not being by deed, whereon a certain rent was reserved, shall appear, the plaintiff
Page 85 - on such a day, at London aforesaid, to wit, in the parish of St. Mary le Bow, in the ward of Cheap, according to the usage and custom of merchants, made a certain bill or note in writing, subscribed with his name, bearing date, &c., and by the said bill or note, promised to pay,
Page 46 - he was desirous to have a case made of it, in order to settle the point more deliberately, solemnly and notoriously; as it was of so extensive a nature; and especially, as the maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations:
Page 453 - it is commanded that none be so hardy as to tell or publish any false news or tales whereby discord or occasion of discord or slander may grow between the king and his people or the great men of the realm;
Page 13 - Thus the matter stood till within these thirty years. Since that time the Commercial Law of this country has taken a very different turn from what it did before. Lord Hardwicke himself was proceeding with great caution, not establishing any general principle, but decreeing on all the circumstances put together. Before that period we find

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