Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law-printers to the King, 1791 - Law |
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Page 12
... creditors of their juft debts , and prevented many provident fathers from dividing or charging their eftates as the exigence of their families re- quired . This introduced pretty generally the right of dis- pofing of one's property , or ...
... creditors of their juft debts , and prevented many provident fathers from dividing or charging their eftates as the exigence of their families re- quired . This introduced pretty generally the right of dis- pofing of one's property , or ...
Page 142
... creditors , and were entitled to the stock upon the farm . The leffee's eftate might alfo , by the antient law , be at any time defeated by a common recovery suffered by the tenant of the freehold ; which annihilated all leafes for ...
... creditors , and were entitled to the stock upon the farm . The leffee's eftate might alfo , by the antient law , be at any time defeated by a common recovery suffered by the tenant of the freehold ; which annihilated all leafes for ...
Page 160
... creditor , till out of the rents and profits of them the debt may be fatisfied : and , during fuch time as the creditor fo holds the lands , he is tenant by ftatute merchant or ftatute ftaple . There is also a similar security , the ...
... creditor , till out of the rents and profits of them the debt may be fatisfied : and , during fuch time as the creditor fo holds the lands , he is tenant by ftatute merchant or ftatute ftaple . There is also a similar security , the ...
Page 242
... creditors , and others , who have demands on the estate of the ancestor . If a remainder be limited to the heirs of Sempronius , here Sem- pronius himself takes nothing ; but , if he dies during the con- tinuance of the particular ...
... creditors , and others , who have demands on the estate of the ancestor . If a remainder be limited to the heirs of Sempronius , here Sem- pronius himself takes nothing ; but , if he dies during the con- tinuance of the particular ...
Page 285
... creditors . WHO fhall be such a trader , or what acts are fufficient to denominate him a bankrupt , with the feveral connected con- fequences refulting from that unhappy fituation , will be bet- ter considered in a fubfequent chapter ...
... creditors . WHO fhall be such a trader , or what acts are fufficient to denominate him a bankrupt , with the feveral connected con- fequences refulting from that unhappy fituation , will be bet- ter considered in a fubfequent chapter ...
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abfolute adminiſtrator affigns aforefaid againſt alfo alienation alſo anceſtors antient bankrupt becauſe blood cafe caſe chattels common law confent confequence confideration conveyance copyhold court creditors cuſtom debts deceaſed deed defcended devife dower Edward Edward Coke efcheat eftate Eliz emblements eſtabliſhed eſtate executor expreffed faid fame fecond fee-fimple feems feifed feifin feodal feoffment fervices feud fhall fhould fince firft firſt focage fome forfeiture fpecies freehold ftatute ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed grant hath heirs hereditaments himſelf houſe huſband Ibid iffue Inft inheritance intereft itſelf John Stiles joint-tenants king laft lands laſt leafe Litt lord manor moſt muſt neceffary obferved otherwife owner perfon poffeffion prefent purchafor purchaſe purpoſe reaſon refpect remainder rent reverfion ſhall ſome ſpecial ſpecies Stiles ſuch tail tenant tenements tenure thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe ufually unleſs uſe uſually vefted veſted villein villenage wife
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Page 6 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 6 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 107 - A base, or qualified fee, is such a one as hath a qualification subjoined thereto, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an end. As, in the case of a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale...
Page 18 - land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it.
Page 484 - Glanvil informs us that by the common law, as it stood in the reign of Henry the Second, a man's goods were to be divided into three equal parts: of which one went to his heirs or lineal descendants, another to his wife, and the third was at his own disposal: or if he died without a wife, he might then dispose of one moiety, and the other went to his children ; and so e converso, if he had no children...
Page 182 - But, while it continues, each of two joint-tenants has a concurrent interest in the whole; and therefore, on the death of his companion, the sole interest in the whole remains to the survivor.
Page 129 - But if there be a donee in special tail who holds lands to him and the heirs of his body begotten on Jane his wife : though Jane may be endowed of these lands, yet if Jane dies, and he marries a second wife, that second wife shall never be endowed of the lands entailed; for no issue that she could have, could by any possibility inherit them.
Page 124 - Tenant by the curtesy of England is where a man marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance, that is, of lands and tenements in fee-simple or feetail, and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life, as tenant by the curtesy of England.
Page 334 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio;* but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force: as, payment of rent; performance of covenants in a deed; or repayment of a principal sum of money borrowed of the obligee, with interest, which principal sum is usually one half of the penal sum specified in the bond.
Page 495 - An executor is he to whom another man commits by will the execution of that his last will and testament.