The Law of Limitation as to Real Property: Including that of the Crown and the Duke of Cornwall. With Appendix of Statutes |
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... parties to be harassed by stale demands after the witnesses of the facts are dead and the evidence of the title lost . No hardship follows , except upon those who have slept over their rights in entire disregard of the provisions of a ...
... parties to be harassed by stale demands after the witnesses of the facts are dead and the evidence of the title lost . No hardship follows , except upon those who have slept over their rights in entire disregard of the provisions of a ...
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... parties , when time shall have destroyed the muniments of their titles , to retain the possession they have had for so long a time . Lord Plunket eloquently said , " Time with his scythe mows down muniments and evidence of title , and ...
... parties , when time shall have destroyed the muniments of their titles , to retain the possession they have had for so long a time . Lord Plunket eloquently said , " Time with his scythe mows down muniments and evidence of title , and ...
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... parties against loss of evidence , but to quiet claims . To sue a defendant when the plaintiff has slept six years over his rights - when time and misfor- tune may have disabled the debtor from discharging his obligation - is at once ...
... parties against loss of evidence , but to quiet claims . To sue a defendant when the plaintiff has slept six years over his rights - when time and misfor- tune may have disabled the debtor from discharging his obligation - is at once ...
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... parties contemplate the breach only of the agreement . " But nothing , " said Lord Brougham , " is more contrary to good faith than such a supposi- tion . If the law of the country proceeds on the sup- position that the contracting parties ...
... parties contemplate the breach only of the agreement . " But nothing , " said Lord Brougham , " is more contrary to good faith than such a supposi- tion . If the law of the country proceeds on the sup- position that the contracting parties ...
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... parties to be assumed as contemplating the breach only of the agreement ( k ) . In all questions which turn on the limitation of time , the right is never taken into consideration : for the statute was made to bar right , and not give ...
... parties to be assumed as contemplating the breach only of the agreement ( k ) . In all questions which turn on the limitation of time , the right is never taken into consideration : for the statute was made to bar right , and not give ...
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Common terms and phrases
9 Geo acquired action adverse adverse possession advowsons alienation applied arrears Att.-Gen barred Beav Bing cestui que trust claimant claimed by prescription common law court of equity Court Sess Crown custom duchy duchy of Cornwall Duke of Cornwall easement effect enjoyment entitled equity evidence exclusive exercise fee simple fishery free fishery grant Hale heir hereditaments Inst interest Jure Maris king land lease legal memory Litt Lord manor ment modus mortgagee mortgagor nature owner ownership payment period plaintiff Plowd posses possession possessor prerogative prescriptive rights presumed presumption primâ facie profits reign relation remedy rent respect right of fishing river Roman law Sect seisin session sion soil Statute of Limitations supra tenant tenements term things corporeal tion tithes trespass twenty usucaption Vict Wightw writ of right writs
Popular passages
Page 675 - Hall, that in construing wills, and indeed statutes, and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that absurdity and inconsistency, but no further.
Page 769 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 770 - ... when the person claiming such land or rent shall claim in respect of an estate or interest in possession granted, appointed, or otherwise assured by any instrument (other than a will) to him, or some person through whom he claims, by a person being in respect of the same estate or interest in the possession or receipt of the profits of the land, or in the receipt of the rent...
Page 778 - ... unless in the meantime some part of the principal money, or some interest thereon, shall have been paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing, signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable, or his agent, to the person entitled thereto, or his agent; and in such case, no such action or suit or proceeding shall be brought but within twenty years after such payment or acknowledgment, or the last of such payments or acknowledgments, if more than one,...
Page 778 - December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, no arrears of rent or of interest in respect of any sum of money charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, or in respect of any legacy, or any damages in respect of such arrears of rent or interest, shall be recovered by any distress, action, or suit but within six years next after the same respectively shall have become due...
Page 769 - That the words and expressions hereinafter mentioned, which in their ordinary signification have a more confined or a different meaning, shall in this Act, except where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction, be interpreted as follows; (that is to say), the word "will...
Page 769 - ... every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing ; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.
Page 768 - That the time during which any person otherwise capable of resisting any claim to any of the matters before mentioned shall have been or shall be an infant, idiot, non compos mentis, feme covert, or tenant for life, or during which any action or suit shall have been pending, and which shall have been diligently prosecuted until abated by the death of any party or parties thereto, shall be excluded in the computation of the periods hereinbefore mentioned, except only in cases where the right or claim...
Page 775 - ... redemption shall have been given to the mortgagor, or some person claiming his estate, or to the agent of such mortgagor or person, in writing signed by the mortgagee or the person claiming through him...
Page 765 - ... no Act or other matter shall be deemed to be an interruption, within the meaning of this statute, unless the same shall have been or shall be submitted to, or acquiesced in for one year after the party interrupted shall have had or shall have notice thereof, and of the person making or authorizing the same to be made.