The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 36Butterworths, 1851 - Law |
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... intention , were anxious to discover a method by which it might consist- ently with legal principle be carried into effect . There was thus gradually introduced such a modification of the strictness of the common law , with respect to ...
... intention , were anxious to discover a method by which it might consist- ently with legal principle be carried into effect . There was thus gradually introduced such a modification of the strictness of the common law , with respect to ...
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... intention . The rule , therefore , being that the intention of the devisor should be effectuated as far as it possibly might be , it was found necessary to sacrifice the particular objects which he might appear to have contemplated , in ...
... intention . The rule , therefore , being that the intention of the devisor should be effectuated as far as it possibly might be , it was found necessary to sacrifice the particular objects which he might appear to have contemplated , in ...
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... intention of the testator into effect , so far as such interpretation may be consistent with the rules respecting perpetuities . Vide Cr . Dig . tit . 32 , c . 26 . 1 The general principle most reconcileable with all the cases is , that ...
... intention of the testator into effect , so far as such interpretation may be consistent with the rules respecting perpetuities . Vide Cr . Dig . tit . 32 , c . 26 . 1 The general principle most reconcileable with all the cases is , that ...
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... intention has been indicated of confining the gift to such purposes . All idea of applying the property to the attainment of any ends except those specified having thus been precluded , the charitable object has been not unfrequently ...
... intention has been indicated of confining the gift to such purposes . All idea of applying the property to the attainment of any ends except those specified having thus been precluded , the charitable object has been not unfrequently ...
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... intention and satisfy his wishes ; and , accordingly , it was necessary that the object should be effected in toto , or the property should pass to the next of kin . The case of Chapman v . Brown may be taken as a very simple ...
... intention and satisfy his wishes ; and , accordingly , it was necessary that the object should be effected in toto , or the property should pass to the next of kin . The case of Chapman v . Brown may be taken as a very simple ...
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Page 219 - Viet. c. 99. s. 2. enacts that, " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any Court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence...
Page 75 - Person so offending shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his...
Page 230 - ... and thereupon such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for...
Page 224 - All Proclamations, Treaties, and other Acts of State of any foreign State or of any British colony, and all judgments, decrees, orders, and other judicial proceedings of any court of justice in any foreign State or in any British colony, and all affidavits, pleadings, and other legal documents filed or deposited in any such court...
Page 165 - ... first, the mode of annexation to the soil or fabric of the house, and the extent to which it is united to them, whether it...
Page 72 - Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily Harm upon any other Person, either with or without any Weapon or Instrument...
Page 217 - ... any party to any suit, action, or proceeding individually named in the record, or any lessor of the plaintiff, or tenant of premises sought to...
Page 238 - In any Plea of autrefois convict or autrefois acquit, it shall be sufficient for any Defendant to state that he has been lawfully convicted or acquitted (as the Case may be) of the said Offence charged in the Indictment.
Page 42 - ... to which the first occupant may acquire an exclusive right, but that it is public and common in this sense only, that all may reasonably use it who have a right of access to it, that none can have any property in the water itself except in the particular portion which he may choose to abstract from the stream and take into his possession, and that during the time of his possession only. But each proprietor of the adjacent land has the right to the usufruct of the stream which flows through it.
Page 239 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...