A System of Conveyancing: Comprising the Principles, Forms and Laws which Regulate the Transfer of Property in Canada, and which are for the Most Part Coextensive with the English Language Everywhere, Volume 234

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John Webster Hancock
L. Stebbins, 1861 - 630 pages

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Page 343 - ... it shall be lawful for the 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 his or their former estate ; anything hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 370 - In witness whereof the parties above named have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written...
Page 252 - EF, or his certain attorney, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Page 171 - The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the rule of the civil law ; and kindred of the half blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood, in the same degree, unless the inheritance came to the intestate by descent, devise or gift of some one of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestor shall be excluded from such inheritance.
Page 486 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared, by the said Thomas Coutts, the testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, in his presence, at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses, . .- .
Page 54 - ... that in actions of debt or upon the case grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract...
Page 54 - Enactments or either of them, or to deprive any Party of the Benefit thereof, unless such Acknowledgment or Promise shall be made or contained by or in some Writing to be signed by the Party chargeable thereby...
Page 170 - ... next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood, and his issue, where the common ancestor shall be a male, and next after the common ancestor where such common ancestor shall be a female...
Page 344 - And the [lessor doth hereby] for himself his heirs executors administrators and assigns [covenant with the said lessee his executors administrators and assigns] that he...
Page 159 - ... and of every part and parcel thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, inheritance, use, trust, property, profit, possession...

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