A Treatise on the Limitation of Actions at Law and in Equity: With an Appendix Containing the English and American Statutes of Limitations

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C. Soule, 1882 - Limitation of actions - 913 pages

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Page 642 - December, 1834, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress, or to bring such action, shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 691 - Within the age of twenty-one years; or, 2. Insane; or, 3. Imprisoned on a criminal charge, or in execution upon conviction of a criminal offense, for a term less than for life.
Page 208 - ... or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall be made or contained by or in some writing to be signed by the party chargeable thereby...
Page 208 - ... joint contractors, or executors, or administrators, if it shall appear at the trial or otherwise that the plaintiff, though barred by either of the said recited acts, or this act, as to one or more of such joint contractors, or executors, or administrators, shall nevertheless be entitled to recover against any other or others of the defendants by virtue of a new acknowledgment, or promise, or otherwise, judgment may be given, and (/) Per Tindal, CJ, Haydon v.
Page 208 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter or take away or lessen the Effect of any Payment of any Principal or Interest made by any Person whatsoever...
Page 655 - ... unless in the meantime some part of the principal money, or some interest thereon, shall have been paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable, or his agent, to the person entitled thereto or his agent...
Page 658 - ... shall be entitled to a divided part of the land or rent comprised in the mortgage, or some estate or interest therein, and not to any ascertained part of the mortgaged money, the mortgagor or mortgagors shall be entitled to redeem the same divided part of the land or rent on payment, with interest, of the part...
Page 651 - ... actions for penalties, damages, or sums of money given to the party grieved by any statute now or hereafter to be in force...
Page 693 - ... the time of his absence or of such residence within the state under such false name is not a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.
Page 642 - ... shall extend to all heriots, and to all services and suits, for which a distress may be made, and to all annuities, and periodical sums of money, charged upon, or payable out of any land, (except moduses or compositions, belonging to a spiritual or eleemosynary corporation sole...

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