A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Volume 2

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Gould and Banks and by William Gould and Company, 1823 - Evidence (Law)

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Page cxlvii - ... arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes, that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c, or any part thereof.
Page clxv - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage, or 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 clxv - ... upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or [of] 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 247 - ... writ or process shall have been delivered to him, or left at the usual place of his abode...
Page 169 - ... the evidence in support of the allegation of a lucid interval, after derangement at any period has been established, should be as strong and as demonstrative of such fact as where the object of the proof is to establish derangement.
Page 280 - God 1536, no manors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, shall pass, alter, or change from one to another, whereby any estate of inheritance or freehold shall be made or take effect in any person or persons, or any use thereof to be made, by reason only of any bargain and sale thereof, except the same bargain and sale be made by writing, indented, sealed, and enrolled...
Page 211 - ... unless the party at whose suit the said execution is sued out, shall, before the removal of such goods from off the said premises, by virtue of such execution...
Page 172 - ... or unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devisor signed in the presence of three or more witnesses, declaring the same, any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 171 - I think the strongest and best proof that can arise as to a lucid interval is that which arises from the act itself ; that I look upon as the thing to be first examined, and if it can be proved and established that it is a rational act rationally done the whole case is proved.

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