A Treatise of Legal Time: With Its Computations and Reckonings

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W. Benning, 1851 - Time (Law) - 186 pages

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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...

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