English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House of Lords, Privy Council, Courts of Equity and Common Law; and in the Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Courts; Including Also Cases in Bankruptcy and Crown Cases Reserved

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Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith
C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1853
 

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Página 351 - Sessions quashed the order, subject to the opinion of this Court upon the following case. The...
Página 476 - Wheely and others, the court say, "the canal having been made under an Act of Parliament, the rights of the plaintiffs are derived entirely from that Act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction, in all such cases, is now fully established to be this ; that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and...
Página 160 - H- by any deed or deeds, instrument or instruments in writing, with or without power of revocation and new appointment, to be by him sealed and delivered in the presence of and to be attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Página 522 - ... 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.
Página 244 - Simpson, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, upon trust that they, my said trustees, and the survivor of them, and the heirs, executors, and administrators of such survivor, shall...
Página 149 - Carter is cited as an authority on behalf of the infant defendant, and for the purpose of showing that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is to be presumed that a person entering into the marriage contract communicates the state of his property to the other parties to the contract.
Página 660 - ... a lease, required by law to be in writing, of any tenements or hereditaments...
Página 263 - ... shall be assets to be administered in courts of equity for the payment of the just debts of such persons, as well debts due on simple contract as on specialty...
Página 546 - Every first-class passenger will be allowed 112 Ibs., and every second-class passenger 56 Ibs. of luggage, free of charge ; but the company will not be responsible for the care of the same unless booked and paid for accordingly.
Página 60 - Elizabeth, my well beloved wife, for and during the term of her natural life ; and from and immediately after her decease...

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