Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From the Year 1789 to 1817, Volume 12;Volume 25

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S. Sweet and Stevens and Sons, 1827
 

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Página 253 - Directory," objection being made that it afforded no scope for a display of literary merit, and that the same materials were open to all mankind. — Lord Chancellor. " In the case of Dr. Trusler's Chronology, all the remarkable events, the accounts of eminent persons, every matter of curiosity and interest, were subjects of information past and gone by, — which could not be altered. All human events are equally open to all who wish to write an original work. No man can monopolise such a subject....
Página 385 - Tarleton for life, with remainder to her first and other sons in tail male, with sundry other remainders to unborn children; and with the ultimate remainder to John Tarleton in fee.
Página 88 - GH and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, or to be begotten, and for want of such issue, then to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, youngest son of the said I. K.
Página 472 - Whitley, their heirs and assigns for ever, upon trust, to receive the rents and profits thereof, and apply the same and so much thereof as should be necessary in the maintenance of the said George Inman the son for his life, and after his decease then, as to one moiety of the said hereditaments...
Página 169 - Defendant stated, that, in case a lease had been granted, it would have contained a proper covenant on the part of the lessee not to assign or underlet...
Página 247 - ... disbelief, but because mankind, judging of matters of antiquity from the infirmity and necessity of their situation must, for the preservation of their property and rights, have recourse to some general principle, to take the place of individual and specific belief, which can hold only as to matters within our own time, upon which a conclusion can be formed from particular and individual knowledge.
Página 480 - ... into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter and the same to have again re-possess and enjoy as of his or their former estate anything hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 445 - ... upon the benefit of the statute ; for he throws it upon the plaintiff to show, a complete written agreement; and it can be no more thrown upon the defendant to supply defects in the agreement, than to supply the want of an agreement.
Página 386 - ... for all or any part of the said term, or by all or any of the ways and means aforesaid, or by any other reasonable ways or means...
Página 246 - It has been said, you cannot presume, unless you believe. It is because there are no means of creating belief or disbelief, that such general presumptions are raised, upon subjects of which there is no record or written muniment. Therefore, upon the weakness and infirmity of all human tribunals, judging of matters of antiquity, instead of belief, which must be the foundation of the judgment upon a recent transaction, where the circumstances are incapable of forming any thing like belief, the legal...

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