A Treatise on the Law of Leases: With Forms and Precedents, Volume 1

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A. Maxwell, 1847 - Leases - 906 pages

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Page 568 - ... 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, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorised.
Page 529 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, whether there shall or shall not be any new consideration for such promise or ratification after full age.
Page 482 - ... and other payments, according to the time which shall have elapsed from the commencement or last period of payment thereof respectively (as the case may be), including the day of the death of such person, or of the determination of his or her interest...
Page 158 - ... save and except that no such disposition, release, surrender, or extinguishment shall be valid and effectual unless the husband, concur in the deed by which the same shall be effected, nor unless the deed be acknowledged by her as hereinafter directed...
Page 568 - ... 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...
Page 605 - that the intention of the parties, as declared by the words of the instrument, must govern the construction.
Page 568 - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person...
Page 318 - ... has directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of the council.
Page 690 - ... customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, it shall go to the executor or administrator...
Page 737 - ... living apart from his wife, either by mutual consent or by sentence of divorce, or in consequence of...

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