Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 28T. and J.W. Johnson, law booksellers, 1854 |
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... statute of frauds . For it is said that , as that statute requires the attestation * of three witnesses , so , to allow the will to be proved upon a trial at law without calling an [ * 23 attesting witness , so long as one of the three ...
... statute of frauds . For it is said that , as that statute requires the attestation * of three witnesses , so , to allow the will to be proved upon a trial at law without calling an [ * 23 attesting witness , so long as one of the three ...
Page 37
... statute 48 G. c . 123 , for the discharge of persons in execution upon any judgment for any debt or damages not exceeding 20. , applies to persons in execution for damages in actions of assault . THE defendant had been imprisoned more ...
... statute 48 G. c . 123 , for the discharge of persons in execution upon any judgment for any debt or damages not exceeding 20. , applies to persons in execution for damages in actions of assault . THE defendant had been imprisoned more ...
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... statute of Elizabeth does not apply to this case . There will therefore be no rule . LITTLEDALE J. The words " Judges " and " Justices " in the statute of Elizabeth cannot mean any but the Judges and Justices of the courts at ...
... statute of Elizabeth does not apply to this case . There will therefore be no rule . LITTLEDALE J. The words " Judges " and " Justices " in the statute of Elizabeth cannot mean any but the Judges and Justices of the courts at ...
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... statute gives no power for filling up the number , except by the election of the forty new vestrymen . The third and only remaining construction must therefore be adopted ; that is , that the fraction to be lotted off is to be estimated ...
... statute gives no power for filling up the number , except by the election of the forty new vestrymen . The third and only remaining construction must therefore be adopted ; that is , that the fraction to be lotted off is to be estimated ...
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... statute of limitations . DECLARATION ( of Michaelmas term 1832 ) in assumpsit on an award . Plea of set - off , stating , among other things , that the plaintiff was indebted to the defendant in the sum of , & c . , upon a promissory ...
... statute of limitations . DECLARATION ( of Michaelmas term 1832 ) in assumpsit on an award . Plea of set - off , stating , among other things , that the plaintiff was indebted to the defendant in the sum of , & c . , upon a promissory ...
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Page 187 - Defendant afterwards, under leave, reserved at the trial, moved for and obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
Page 111 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter or take away or lessen the Effect of any Payment of any Principal or Interest made by any Person whatsoever...
Page 217 - Justice, and of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better advancement of Justice...
Page 427 - Nisi was obtained, calling on the plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, upon the ground that the testimony of the woman had been improperly rejected.
Page 167 - Session holden in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act for -the better preventing frivolous and vexatious Suits...
Page 97 - I have humbly to move your lordship for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered, or why the verdict entered for the plaintiff" should not be set aside, and a New Trial had.
Page 220 - ... and that the judgment of the court below ought to be affirmed, with costs.
Page 44 - Pollock now moved for a rule to show cause why the nonsuit should not be set aside and a new trial had. The plaintiff is entitled to recover the money paid for the shares, the consideration for the payment having totally failed.
Page 236 - ... the defendant has not appealed against the conviction, where an appeal is allowed, or. if appealed against, the conviction has been affirmed, such conviction shall not afterwards be set aside or vacated in consequence of any defect of form whatever, but the construction shall be such a fair and liberal construction as will "be agreeable to the justice of the case.
Page 102 - ... personal estate and effects within this realm or abroad which such prisoner may purchase, or which may revert, descend, be devised or bequeathed, or come to him...