The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber ... Trinity Term, 10 Vict., to [Hilary Vacation, 19 Vict.] ... Both Inclusive. [1847-1856], Volume 1

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Página 252 - that no action shall be brought to charge any person upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them." An equity of redemption is an interest in land within the meaning of that statute, and the agreement is altogether void:
Página 418 - A 1, of the measurement of 149 tons or thereabouts, therein alleged to be at sea, having sailed three weeks before, and the defendant, therein described as of London, merchant, that the said ship, being tight, staunch, and strong, and every way fitted for the voyage, should, with all convenient speed, sail and proceed to Marseilles, after having delivered
Página 629 - and if on the face of it the Court cannot infer a promise to pay, it is not sufficient for that purpose. The words of the statute are, that " no acknowledgment or promise by words only" shall be deemed sufficient evidence to avoid the Statute of Limitations, unless such acknowledgment or promise "shall be in writing,
Página 851 - That, no action or suit shall be commenced against any person or persons, for anything done in execution or pursuance of any local act or acts of Parliament, relating, either exclusively or jointly with any other objects or purposes, to the pavement of any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this
Página 742 - the holder of one share or more in the company, (stating the number of shares), and is indebted to the company in the sum of money to which the calls in arrear shall amount, in respect of one call or more upon one share or more,
Página 528 - the holding of C., to hold to her, my said wife, during the term of her natural life, and from and after her decease I give and devise the said messuage or tenement, and also the said farm and
Página 630 - chargeable thereby: provided, that nothing herein contained shall alter or take away or lessen the effect of any payment of any principal or interest by any person whatsoever." Now the effect of payment of interest is very different from the effect of a written acknowledgment; for the latter binds only the party making it, whereas payment of interest binds a co-contractor
Página 281 - producing the lease. The learned judge was of that opinion, but submitted the case to the jury, who found that rent was due, and that the sheriff had notice of it. Under his lordship's direction, a verdict was found for the plaintiff for £18, leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter a verdict for
Página 120 - months after notice. There was also a count for money lent, interest, and money due on an account stated. The defendant pleaded (with other pleas) the Statute of Limitations. At the trial, before Pollock, CB, at the London sittings after last Hilary Term, it appeared that the action was brought to recover the sum of 242Z.
Página 23 - c. 58, by which statute a stamp duty was required " for every piece of paper, &c., upon which any agreement shall be written, whether the same shall be only evidence of the contract, or obligatory upon the parties from its being a written instrument,

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