The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, Volume 2

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O. Richards, 1845 - International law

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Page 43 - ... the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information...
Page 235 - Chancellor in matters of lunacy, whereby any sum of money, or any costs, charges, or expenses, shall be payable to any person, shall have the effect of judgments in the superior Courts of common law, and the persons to whom any such monies, or costs, charges, or expenses, shall be payable, shall be deemed judgment creditors within the meaning of this Act...
Page 28 - It is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to the law ; and it is the duty of the jury to follow the law, as it is laid down by the Court.
Page 430 - ... it shall be lawful for the said lessor, at any time thereafter, into and upon the said demised premises, or any part thereof in the name of the whole, to re-enter, and the same to have again, re-possess, and enjoy as of hie or their former estate, any thing hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 276 - Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, and of the several Commissioners of the Great Seal, and Lord Chancellor Loughborough, from 1778 to 1794, with the Annotations of Mr.
Page 420 - ... conveyed, or intended so to be, with their and every of their appurtenances, and...
Page 418 - ... and 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 109 - In this state of discrepancy between the decided cases, we think it is, at all events, a safe rule to adopt, that where the misdescription, although not proceeding from fraud, is in a material and substantial point, so far affecting the subject-matter of the contract that it may reasonably be supposed, that, but for such misdescription, the purchaser might never have entered into the contract at all, in such case the contract is avoided altogether, and the purchaser is not bound to resort to the...
Page 415 - An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance...
Page 431 - ... not the length of such deed, but only the skill and labour employed, and responsibility incurred in the preparation thereof.

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