The Leigh Peerage: Being a Full and Complete History of the Claim of George Leigh, Esq. to the Dormant Title of Baron Leigh, of Stoneley, in the County of Warwick: Comprising a Report of the Evidence Taken Before the Lords' Committee for Privileges, with Notes, Analytical and Explanatory: and Certain Additional Evidence, Forming the Ultimatum to this Very Mysterious Case ...H. K. Causton, 1832 |
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... terms of lord Leigh's devise , in default of issue of his sisters , are " unto the first and nearest of my kindred , being male , and of my name and blood , that shall be living at the time of the determination of the several estates ...
... terms of lord Leigh's devise , in default of issue of his sisters , are " unto the first and nearest of my kindred , being male , and of my name and blood , that shall be living at the time of the determination of the several estates ...
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... term " first , " and in whom the estate would certainly have become vested , provided the words " first and nearest " may be construed of the same import . That assumption brings under observation the continued limitation to the issue ...
... term " first , " and in whom the estate would certainly have become vested , provided the words " first and nearest " may be construed of the same import . That assumption brings under observation the continued limitation to the issue ...
Page xv
... term of 500 years , and that the trustee of the term might assign it to the plaintiff , and deliver up to him all title deeds and writings respecting it . To this bill a demurrer was put in , and came on for argument before the lord ...
... term of 500 years , and that the trustee of the term might assign it to the plaintiff , and deliver up to him all title deeds and writings respecting it . To this bill a demurrer was put in , and came on for argument before the lord ...
Page xvi
... terms this case ; and declares , that the assumption of the name by a Cro . El . 532. Idem 576. Hob . 29. Moore 860. 1 Brownl . 129 stated by Mr. Hargrave , from lord Hales's MSS . Co. Lit. 24 , b . Note 145.3 P. Wil . 65. 4 Bro . P. C. ...
... terms this case ; and declares , that the assumption of the name by a Cro . El . 532. Idem 576. Hob . 29. Moore 860. 1 Brownl . 129 stated by Mr. Hargrave , from lord Hales's MSS . Co. Lit. 24 , b . Note 145.3 P. Wil . 65. 4 Bro . P. C. ...
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... term " name " generally ; which must be understood , by whatever means acquired . That construction , which advances both the objects , is the most sensible . If the testator had left a niece , who had a son , is the inference ...
... term " name " generally ; which must be understood , by whatever means acquired . That construction , which advances both the objects , is the most sensible . If the testator had left a niece , who had a son , is the inference ...
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Page 36 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page 21 - Princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange...
Page 19 - Good repute and well known for his knowledge piety and morality be employed by the said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor or their or his assigns...
Page 19 - New-Jersey, upon trust and confidence that they, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and...
Page 34 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, and at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page vi - Claudian's order to place his statue in their temple, Philo places in harvest, Josephus in seed-time ; both contemporary writers. No reader is led by this inconsistency to doubt, whether such an embassy was sent, or whether such an order was given. Our own history supplies examples of the same kind. In the account of the Marquis of Argyle's death, in the reign of Charles the Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction.
Page xli - ... upon and for such trusts, intents and purposes, and with, under and subject to such powers, provisoes and declarations, as...
Page 28 - Barwick and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life, in augmentation of her jointure ; and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them, the said J.
Page vi - Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction. Lord Clarendon relates that he was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day ; on the contrary, Burnet, Woodrow, Heath, Echard, concur In stating that he was beheaded; and that he was condemned upon the Saturday, and executed upon the Monday...
Page v - KNOW not a more rash or unphilosophical conduct of the understanding, than to reject the substance of a story, by reason of some diversity in the circumstances with which it is related. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth undercircumstantial variety.