The Law Journal Reports, Volume 13

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E.B. Ince, 1844

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Page 314 - December, 1833, no action or suit or other proceeding shall be brought, to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment, or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, at law or in equity, or any legacy, but within twenty years next after a present right to receive the same shall have accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for, or release of, the same...
Page 283 - ... and that an account might be taken of what was due, to the Plaintiff...
Page 322 - ... and from and after her decease, or second marriage, which shall first happen, to the use of my said granddaughter, Martha Hannah Johnson, and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life...
Page 83 - ... years from thence next ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended...
Page 233 - ... shall be entitled to a proportion of such rents, annuities, pensions, dividends, moduses, compositions, and other payments according to the time which shall have elapsed from the commencement or last period of payment thereof respectively (as the case may be), including the day of the death of such person, or of the determination of his or her interest...
Page 59 - Act, be commenced or instituted, and prosecuted in the name of any one of the public officers nominated as aforesaid, for the time being of such co-partnership as the nominal plaintiff or petitioner for and on behalf of such copartnership...
Page 285 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 200 - August 1832, gave all his real and personal estate (subject to the payment of his debts and...
Page 208 - The best rule of construction is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject that falls within their usual sense, unless there is something like declaration plain to the contrary...
Page 12 - Moveable, of such Person, all Sums of Money remaining due which such Person received by virtue of his said Office or Employment, before any other of his Debts are paid or satisfied...

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