Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. [1736-1754], Band 3

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A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law-printers to the King, 1794
 

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Seite 152 - Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroners, to be executed : And for the better Manifestation of the said Time, the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, and Coroners, their Deputies and Agents, shall upon the Receipt of any such Writ, (without Fee for doing the same) endorse upon the Back thereof, the Day of the Month or Year whereon he or they received the same.
Seite 142 - the king as head of the Commonwealth, is obliged by the common law, and for that purpose...
Seite 170 - Being non compos mentis, of unsound mind, are certain terms in law, and import a total deprivation of sense. Now weakness does not carry this idea along with it. But courts of law understand what is meant by non compos, or insane, as they are words of a determinate signification.
Seite 633 - ... of the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the time being, as...
Seite 782 - Because of the fact that a mortgage is regarded as of a dual character, a conveyance of an estate in land and a security for a debt, bearing one character in a court of law and another in a court of equity...
Seite 130 - Harkwicke states, what seems to be the foundation of the passage in Mitford, ' that supplemental Bills are often brought even in aid of a decree of this Court ' ; and he illustrates that by the case to which I have referred, for he says ' as in a decree to account for want of full directions before...
Seite 12 - Henry the seventh's time, the courts of law construed even a copper and furnaces to be part of the freehold. Since that time, the general ground the courts have gone upon, of relaxing this strict construction of law is, that it is for the benefit of the public to encourage tenants for life, to do what is advantageous to the estate during their term.
Seite 515 - ... into a court of equity for relief, this court will give it him, by obliging the creditor to account for the whole that he has received...
Seite 94 - ... that are not come to their full growth and decayed timber, I know of no such distinction, either in law or equity. Therefore upon the authority of those cases which have been very numerous in this court, of interposing to stay waste in the tenant for, life, where no action can be maintained against him at law, as the plaintiff has not the immediate remainder, the injunction must be continued till the hearing.
Seite 82 - intent and meaning of thefe prefents ; • And the faid...

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