Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 50

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Page 841 - no action shall be brought whereby * * * to charge any person * * * upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them ; * * * 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 867 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 777 - The declaration stated that theretofore, to wit, on, &c., by a certain, agreement then made between the plaintiff of the one part and the defendant of the other part...
Page 833 - ... whereby and by force of the said statute the defendant forfeited for his said offence the said sum of 501., and thereby and by force of the said statute an action hath accrued to the plaintiff to demand and have of and from the defendant the said sum of .')()/., being the said sum above demanded...
Page 633 - ... to the uses, upon and for the trusts, intents, and purposes, and with, under, and subject to the powers, provisoes, and declarations...
Page 615 - Serjt., on a former day in this term, obtained a rule nisi to set aside the nonsuit, and for a new trial, on payment of costs.
Page 521 - ... contained, on his part and behalf to be performed, fulfilled, and kept, according to the tenor and effect...
Page 499 - ... enter a memorandum of any alteration in the said title or specification, not being such disclaimer or such alteration as shall extend the exclusive right granted by the said letters patent...
Page 719 - ... specified to be originals were respectively written, signed, or executed, as they purport respectively to have been ; that such as are specified as copies are". true copies ; and such documents as are stated to have been served, sent, or delivered, were so served, sent, or delivered respectively ; saving all just exceptions to the admissibility of all such documents as evidence in this cause.
Page 605 - ... the lessor or lessors in ejectment had power to re-enter ; then and in every such case the lessor or lessors in ejectment shall recover judgment and execution, in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded, and a re-entry made.

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