Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880Michie Company, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... received 30 upon the good counts of facts of which the defendant had notice by the bad counts , the great object being to prevent surprise , by giving notice of the cause of action , or ground of defence , as the case may be . ( a ) ...
... received 30 upon the good counts of facts of which the defendant had notice by the bad counts , the great object being to prevent surprise , by giving notice of the cause of action , or ground of defence , as the case may be . ( a ) ...
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... received by a guardian for a ward , during the paper money times , ought to be reduced by the scale of depreciation ; to be applied as on the last day of the year in which it was received . 6. Samet - Investments - Reasonable Time ...
... received by a guardian for a ward , during the paper money times , ought to be reduced by the scale of depreciation ; to be applied as on the last day of the year in which it was received . 6. Samet - Investments - Reasonable Time ...
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... received as evidence of title on the general issue in ejectment . 2. Escheated Lands - What Necessary to Grant Thereof , -The Commonwealth , under the existing laws , cannot grant escheated lands , without a previous inquest of office ...
... received as evidence of title on the general issue in ejectment . 2. Escheated Lands - What Necessary to Grant Thereof , -The Commonwealth , under the existing laws , cannot grant escheated lands , without a previous inquest of office ...
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... received by him for the use of the by evidence , as it ought to have been . It estate , including debts , sales and profits , in certainly does not appear by what means , full satisfaction for receiving , putting out , or by what ...
... received by him for the use of the by evidence , as it ought to have been . It estate , including debts , sales and profits , in certainly does not appear by what means , full satisfaction for receiving , putting out , or by what ...
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... received a full discussion at the share being one - eighth of the said Mary bar , and the mature consideration of Anne's estate ; notwithstanding the act of the Court . ( a ) It is unnecessary to enlarge 1792 , which was then in force ...
... received a full discussion at the share being one - eighth of the said Mary bar , and the mature consideration of Anne's estate ; notwithstanding the act of the Court . ( a ) It is unnecessary to enlarge 1792 , which was then in force ...
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Page 247 - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act, entitled. " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietor? of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 366 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 213 - ... perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.
Page 214 - War ; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage either in his person, liberty, or property ; and that those who may be in confinement on such charges at the time of the Ratification of the Treaty in America, shall be immediately set at liberty, and the prosecutions so commenced be discontinued.
Page 340 - a will is an instrument by which a person makes a disposition of. his property to take effect after his decease, and which is, in its own nature, ambulatory and revocable during his life.
Page 213 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States. And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any...
Page 213 - ... now in possession the bona fide price, (where any has been given) which such persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, rights or properties since the confiscation. And it is agreed that all persons who have any interest in confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage-settlements or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution of their just rights.
Page 90 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war, and that no person shall, on that account, suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or property...
Page 59 - For it is a part of the liberties of England, and greatly for the safety of the subject, that the king may not enter upon or seize any man's possessions upon bare surmises without the intervention of a jury, (z) It is however particularly enacted by the statute 33 Hen.
Page 342 - That any soldier being in actual military service, or any mariner or seaman being at sea, may dispose of his personal estate as he might have done before the making of this act.