Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and the Principal Matters, Volume 1

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Page 389 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 287 - The question for the opinion of the court was whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover.
Page 663 - The defendants must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time their letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiffs; and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter.
Page 589 - And it is hereby declared and agreed by and between all the said parties to these presents, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said...
Page 195 - J. I am also of opinion that this rule ought to be discharged. The only question in the case is, whether the entry made by Mr.
Page 592 - ... that it could not have been the intention of the parties that the habendum should operate according to the words.
Page 444 - ... to move to enter a nonsuit, if the court should be of opinion that the indorsement of the promissory note in pencil was not a good and valid indorsement.
Page 86 - If, however, the exception or proviso be in a subsequent clause or statute, or although in the same section, yet, if it be not incorporated with the enacting clause by any words of reference, it is in that case matter of defense for the other party, and need not be negatived in the pleading.
Page 390 - Parkman then and there instantly died. — And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John W.
Page 588 - ... sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses...

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