A History of English Law, Volumen 7

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Página 99 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Página 270 - But when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Página 408 - I am of opinion that the law is that a person possessed of goods as his property has a good title as against every stranger, and that one who takes them from him, having no title in himself, is a wrongdoer, and cannot defend himself by showing that there was title in some third person, for against a wrongdoer possession is title.
Página 217 - ... conveyance. In marriage settlements the estate may be limited to the first and other sons of the marriage in tail, and until the person to whom the last remainder is limited is of age the estate is unalienable. In. conformity to that rule the courts have said, so far we will allow executory devises to be good.
Página 3 - ... rem perdidisse, quia debuisset arbores nominare, eo quod lex XII tabularum, ex qua de vitibus succisis actio competeret, generaliter de arboribus succisis loqueretur.
Página 240 - And, upon the same principle, courts of law have of late years leaned as much as possible against construing demises, where no certain term is mentioned, to be tenancies at will; but have rather held them to be tenancies from year to year so long as both parties please, especially where an annual rent is reserved...
Página 134 - Wife, for the Term of their Lives, and the Life of the longer Liver of them, the Remainder...
Página 375 - This action lies, and has been brought in many cases where, in truth, the defendant has got the possession lawfully. Where the defendant takes them wrongfully, and by trespass, the plaintiff, if he thinks fit to bring this action, waives the trespass, and admits the possession to have been lawfully gotten...
Página 355 - That no Will shall be revoked by any Presumption of an Intention on the Ground of an Alteration in Circumstances.
Página 313 - a privilege that one neighbour hath of another by writing or prescription, without profit; as a way or sink through his land.

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