The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]., Volume 10 |
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... land results back by a kind of reversion to the original grantor or lord of whom it is holden . Escheat takes place when the tenant of lands dies intes- tate and without an heir : in such case the lands , if free- hold , escheat to the ...
... land results back by a kind of reversion to the original grantor or lord of whom it is holden . Escheat takes place when the tenant of lands dies intes- tate and without an heir : in such case the lands , if free- hold , escheat to the ...
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... land , one on this side and the other beyond the Trent ; but in the reign of King Edward III . there was one appointed for every county , who was to continue in office for one year only . This office has now ceased to exist ...
... land , one on this side and the other beyond the Trent ; but in the reign of King Edward III . there was one appointed for every county , who was to continue in office for one year only . This office has now ceased to exist ...
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... land is again contracted , along that bend of the river called The Hope , 3 miles long , from the lower end of which they again widen , and extend above 9 miles along the river , and nearly 4 miles inland , being intersected by an inlet ...
... land is again contracted , along that bend of the river called The Hope , 3 miles long , from the lower end of which they again widen , and extend above 9 miles along the river , and nearly 4 miles inland , being intersected by an inlet ...
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... land at the mouth of the Thames , 6 miles from the east end of Canvey Island , where the coast turns to the north - east , the marshes reappear ; and with an interval of about a mile just beyond Shoebury , they con- tinue along the ...
... land at the mouth of the Thames , 6 miles from the east end of Canvey Island , where the coast turns to the north - east , the marshes reappear ; and with an interval of about a mile just beyond Shoebury , they con- tinue along the ...
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... land in the adjacent levels were overflowed , and the surface of nearly 120 acres was washed into the Thames , where ... lands on its banks by mounds . In the tide- way there are many arms ; and the various channels by which the river ...
... land in the adjacent levels were overflowed , and the surface of nearly 120 acres was washed into the Thames , where ... lands on its banks by mounds . In the tide- way there are many arms ; and the various channels by which the river ...
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Page 153 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Page 267 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 267 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 218 - Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and His saints"; and he shall kiss the book.
Page 177 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 101 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 259 - ... of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and...
Page 267 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 213 - If a ferry is erected on a river, so near another ancient ferry as to draw away its custom, it is a nuisance to the owner of the old one. For where there is a ferry by prescription, the owner is bound to keep it always in repair and readiness, for the ease of all the king's subjects; otherwise he may be...
Page 230 - ... of the court, the plaintiff is at liberty to proceed against him for any other personal injury; which surmise, of being in the marshal's custody, the defendant is not at liberty to dispute.