English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House of Lords, Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law, and in the Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Courts : Including Also Cases in Bankruptcy and Crown Cases Reserved [1850-1857], Volume 5

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Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith
C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 264 - ... and divert or alter, as well temporarily as permanently, the course of any such rivers or streams of water, roads, streets or ways, or raise or sink the level of any such rivers or streams, roads, streets or ways, in order the more conveniently to carry the same over or under or by the side of the railway, as they may think proper...
Page 374 - ... writ shall be available to prevent the operation of any statute whereby the time for the commencement of the action may be limited...
Page 505 - That every Bankrupt who shall have •duly surrendered and in all Things conformed himself to the Laws in force concerning Bankrupts at the Time of issuing the Commission against him shall be discharged from all Debts due by him when he became bankrupt...
Page 148 - ... upon trust, that they, the said trustees, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the executors, administrators, and assigns, of such survivor...
Page 101 - ... for all damage sustained by such owners, occupiers and other parties by reason of the exercise, as regards such lands, of the powers by this or the Special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, vested in the Company...
Page 297 - Judge that the plaintiff has a good cause of action against the defendant...
Page 50 - The point really to be decided in all these cases is whether, looking at the whole context of the will, the testator has meant to impose an obligation on his legatee to carry his express wishes into effect, or whether, having expressed his wishes, he has meant to leave it to the legatee to act on them or not at his discretion.
Page 468 - Court in which the said action is brought, or the said Judge at Chambers, may thereupon, by rule or order, direct that the plaintiff shall recover his costs, and thereupon the plaintiff shall have the same judgment to recover his costs that he would have had if this act had not been passed.
Page 35 - ... or over which such person shall at the time of entering up such judgment, or at any time afterwards, have any disposing power which he might without the assent of any other person exercise for his own benefit...
Page 394 - ... may not, make any dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money unto or between any of its members, and provided also that such society shall obtain the certificate of the barristerat-law or lord advocate, as herein-after mentioned.

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