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... February , he will be in time if he brings his action within six months after the 1st of February ; for the whole imprisonment is one entire trespass ( s ) . So although the early portion of an imprisonment may be beyond the term of six ...
... February , he will be in time if he brings his action within six months after the 1st of February ; for the whole imprisonment is one entire trespass ( s ) . So although the early portion of an imprisonment may be beyond the term of six ...
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... February , he filed his bill , & c . It was objected that , by the plaintiff's own shewing , he had brought his action before the cause of it accrued , the promise being on the 26th of March , and the bill having been filed on the 12th ...
... February , he filed his bill , & c . It was objected that , by the plaintiff's own shewing , he had brought his action before the cause of it accrued , the promise being on the 26th of March , and the bill having been filed on the 12th ...
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... February would be deemed to be included in the preceding year of days , and likewise included within the last legal month , and moreover the 28th and 29th of February would be calculated as one day . Whence it followed that the year ...
... February would be deemed to be included in the preceding year of days , and likewise included within the last legal month , and moreover the 28th and 29th of February would be calculated as one day . Whence it followed that the year ...
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... February in the next Leap Year , or the 28th of February in the next year . The Court held , that a proviso for payment on day of February next ensuing , would mean of the then next February ; but some effect must be given to the words ...
... February in the next Leap Year , or the 28th of February in the next year . The Court held , that a proviso for payment on day of February next ensuing , would mean of the then next February ; but some effect must be given to the words ...
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... February is reckoned or not , one of the six ( h ) . Half a year's notice is , therefore , necessary upon determining a tenancy from year to year , and six calendar months , unless they amount to half a year , are insufficient for the ...
... February is reckoned or not , one of the six ( h ) . Half a year's notice is , therefore , necessary upon determining a tenancy from year to year , and six calendar months , unless they amount to half a year , are insufficient for the ...
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A Treatise of Legal Time: With Its Computations and Reckonings Humphry W. Woolrych No preview available - 2017 |
A Treatise of Legal Time: With Its Computations and Reckonings (1851) Humphry William Woolrych No preview available - 2008 |
A Treatise of Legal Time: With Its Computations and Reckonings (1851) Humphry William Woolrych No preview available - 2008 |
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25th of March act of bankruptcy act of Parliament action affidavit alleged allowed Anon appeared arrest assumpsit attorney award bail bill Bing brought Burr calendar months cited commence computation contract Court held Cowp declaration deed defendant delivered delivery demurrage discharged Dowl Duke of Leeds East Easter eight days execution expired feast February four days fraction holidays imprisonment inclusive indictment issued January judgment jury Justices Lady Day lease Lord Denman Lord Ellenborough Lord Raym Lord Tenterden lunar months Martinmas Mees ment mentioned Michaelmas Monday nonsuit notice offence opinion ordinary calling party payable payment person plaintiff plea pleading reference rent rule Salk scire facias sheriff shew six months Smith stat statute Sunday Swansea Canal Syderstone tenant Term tion twenty-eight days verdict Vict videlicet void warrant Whitnash words Worminghall writ writ of summons
Popular passages
Page 98 - 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 courts, the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day and inclusively of the last day...
Page 6 - All judgments, whether interlocutory or final, shall be entered of record of the day of the month and year, whether in term or vacation, when signed, and shall not have relation to any other day...
Page 24 - Name, nor for omitting to state the Time at which the Offence was committed in any Case where Time is not of the Essence of the Offence, nor for stating the Time imperfectly, nor for stating the Offence to have been committed on a Day subsequent to the finding of the Indictment, or on an impossible Day, or on a Day that never happened...
Page 172 - ... if entitled thereto, but so that persons liable to pay rents reserved by any lease or demise, and the lands, tenements, and hereditaments comprised therein, shall not be resorted to for such apportioned parts specifically as aforesaid, but the entire rents of which such portions shall form a part shall be received and recovered by the person or persons who if this Act had not passed would have been entitled to such entire rents ; and such portions shall be recoverable from such person or pei-sons...
Page 64 - IV. c. 70, s. 6, if the whole or any number of the days intervening between the Thursday before and the Wednesday next after Easter Day, shall fall within Easter Term, there shall be no sittings in bane on any of such intervening days...
Page 171 - Compositions, and other Payments if entitled thereto, but so that Persons liable to pay Rents reserved by any Lease or Demise, and the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments comprised therein, shall not be resorted to for such apportioned Parts specifically...
Page 98 - ... the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day, and inclusively of the last day, unless the last day shall happen to fall on a...
Page 71 - That no person or persons upon the Lord's day shall serve or execute, or cause to be served or executed, any writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree, (except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace,) but that the service of every such writ, process, warrant, order, judgment, or decree, shall be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever...
Page 98 - Provided always, that if the last of such eight days shall in any case happen to fall on a Sunday, Christmas-day, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving ; in either of such cases the following day shall be considered as the last of such eight days.
Page 171 - Ireland, made payable or coming due at fixed periods under any instrument that shall be executed after the passing of this act, or (being a will or testamentary instrument) that shall come into operation after the passing of this act...