The New Practice of the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer of Pleas, in Personal Actions, and Ejectment: Containing All the Recent Statutes, Rules of Court, and Judicial Decisions, Relating Thereto

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Saunders and Benning, 1837 - Civil procedure - 635 pages

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Page 358 - That no action shall be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any promise made, after full age, to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification, after full age...
Page 523 - December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, no arrears of rent or of interest in respect of any sum of money charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, or in respect of any legacy, or any damages in respect of such arrears of rent or interest, shall be recovered by any distress, action, or suit but within six years next after the same respectively shall have become due...
Page 230 - Revenue may be had and taken throughout the year, without reference to any seal day, provided that, in all cases in which any particular number of days not expressed to be clear days is prescribed by the rules or practice of the Court, the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day and inclusively of the last day...
Page 512 - ... when any variance shall appear between any matter in writing or in print produced in evidence, and the recital or setting forth thereof upon the record...
Page 365 - In actions on the case, the plea of not guilty shall operate as a denial only of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged to have been committed by the defendant, and not of the facts stated in the inducement...
Page 514 - Judge, not material to the merits of the case, and by which the opposite party cannot have been prejudiced in the conduct of his action, prosecution, or defence...
Page 9 - Contractor, Executor, or Administrator shall lose the Benefit of the said Enactments or either of them, so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only of any written Acknowledgment or Promise made and signed by any other or others of them...
Page 466 - ... commanding him to try such issue or issues, by a jury to be summoned by him, and to return such writ with the finding of the jury thereon indorsed, at a day certain, in term or in vacation, to be named in such writ; and thereupon such sheriff or judge shall summon a jury, and shall proceed to try such issue or issues.
Page 60 - In all cases in which any particular number of days, not expressed to be clear days, is prescribed by the rules or practice of the courts, the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day, and inclusively of the last day, unless the last day shall happen to...
Page 571 - Then comes the 108th section, which enacts, " that no creditor having security for his debt, or having made any attachment in London or any other place, by virtue of any custom there used, of the goods and chattels of the bankrupt, shall receive, upon any such security or attachment, more than a rateable part of such debt, except in respect of any execution or extent served and levied by seizure upon, or any mortgage of, or lien 1841. WHITMOBE and Others v. ROBINSON. upon, any part of the property...

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