A History of English Law, Band 9

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Seite 114 - At the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century...
Seite 277 - ... the damages of the plaintiff, on occasion of the not performing the promises within mentioned, over and above his costs and charges by him about his suit in this behalf expended to £ , and for those costs and charges to forty shillings.
Seite 144 - If a far-coming man, or a stranger, journey through a wood out of the highway, and neither shout nor blow his horn, he is to be held for a thief, either to be slain or redeemed."* But this fugitive band were not only hiding from their oppressors, but were compelled to plunder for subsistence.
Seite 120 - Norris were named to be the tellers. Lord Norris being a man subject to vapours, was not at all times attentive to what he was doing ; so a very fat lord coming in, Lord Grey counted him for ten, as a jest at first ; but seeing Lord Norris had not observed it, he went on with...
Seite 221 - Ambiguitas patens is never holpen by averment, and the reason is, because the law will not couple and mingle matter of specialty, which is of the higher account, with matter of averment, which is of inferior account in law...
Seite 103 - It is now fully established that the presumed object ' of war being as much to cripple the enemy's commerce as to ' capture his property, a declaration of war imports a prohibition ' of commercial intercourse and correspondence with the inhabitants • of the enemy's country, and that such intercourse, except with the 'licence of the Crown, is illegal.
Seite 88 - It is not in the. power of any private subject to shake off his allegiance, and to transfer it to a foreign prince. Nor is it in the power of any foreign prince by naturalizing or employing a subject of Great Britain, to dissolve the bond of allegiance between that subject and the Crown.
Seite 267 - CD, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, states and shows to the court here the following causes of demurrer to the said declaration...
Seite 198 - ... it seems the height of judicial absurdity, that in the same cause between the same parties, in the examination of the same facts, a discovery by the oath of the parties should be permitted on one side of Westminster-hall, and denied on the other...
Seite 398 - AND that your Orator may have such further and other relief in the Premises as the nature of his case shall require, and as to your Lordship shall seem meet.

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