A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates

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Page 818 - B, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to and for his and their own proper...
Page 782 - ... any annuity or rent-charge shall, from and after the passing of this act, be granted for one or more life or lives...
Page 149 - Then it should be proved as much to the satisfaction of the Court as if it were admitted. The difficulty of this is so great, that there is no instance of its prevailing against a party insisting that there was no mistake.
Page 802 - But as the President presumes that the charter to the bank is to be considered as a contract on the part of the Government, it is not now in the power of Congress to disregard its stipulations ; and by the terms of that contract the public money is to be deposited in the bank during the continuance of its charter, unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall otherwise direct.
Page 68 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of 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...
Page 302 - May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Straight Line or Distance between the Centres of the Two Points in the Gold Studs in the Straight Brass Rod, now in the Custody of the Clerk of the House of Commons, whereon the Words and Figures ' Standnrd Yard 1760
Page 748 - And, generally, it may be stated as a rule on this subject, that where a purchaser cannot make out a title but by a deed, which leads him to another fact, he shall be presumed to have knowledge of that fact.
Page 98 - ... shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 593 - ... frailty of nature, one who has the power will be too readily seized with the inclination to use the opportunity for serving his own interest at the expense of those for whom he is intrusted.
Page 243 - THURLOW said, that to set aside a conveyance, there must be an inequality, so strong, gross and manifest, that it must be impossible to state it to a man of common sense without producing an exclamation at the inequality of it (1).

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