Common Bench Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas ... 1845[-1856].

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Page 197 - Belle,' whereof is master, for this present voyage, Tillman, and now riding at anchor in the river Hooghley, and bound for London, that is to say, twelve bales of silk, being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered...
Page xxi - Dec. 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress, or to bring such action, shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 792 - ... or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 319 - ... in such possession or receipt, then such right " shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time of such death : " And when the person claiming such land or rent, shall claim in " respect of an estate or interest in possession...
Page 195 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page xxi - ... such possession or receipt then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which the person claiming as aforesaid or the person through whom he claims became entitled to such possession or receipt by virtue of such instrument.
Page 180 - ... or cause to be sold, published, or exposed to sale or hire, or shall have in his possession for sale or hire any such...
Page 129 - ... from the day next before the day of the date of the same indenture of bargain and sale and by force of the statute made for transferring uses into possession) and to his heirs (/) ALL that messuage or tenement situate lying and being at &c.
Page 197 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to bills of lading all of this tenor and date, the one of which bills being accomplished, the others to stand void.
Page 459 - That all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any Court of Law or Equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the bands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...

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