Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error: During the Sessions 1831[-1846], Svazek 2

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Strana 455 - ... attested by, two or more credible witnesses, or by her last will and testament in writing, or any...
Strana 449 - In relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused Its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence ; where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore, from the beginning of this Jurisdiction, there was always a limitation to suits In this court.
Strana 503 - says Lord Mansfield, ' established ex comitate et jure gentium is that the place where the contract is made, and not where the action is brought, is to be considered in expounding and enforcing the contract. But this rule admits of an exception where the parties at the time of making the contract had a view to a different kingdom.
Strana 24 - ... application of a subsequent clause, nor by inference therefrom, nor by any subsequent words that are not as clear and decisive as the words of the clause giving the interest or estate.
Strana 604 - Elizabeth, my well beloved wife, for and during the term of her natural life ; and from and immediately after her decease...
Strana 198 - Noel his intended wife lawfully to be begotten severally successively and in remainder one after another as they and every of them shall be in priority of birth . and of the several and respective heirs male of the body...
Strana 198 - ... the elder of such sons and the heirs male of his body to be always preferred and to take before the younger of such son and sons and the heirs male of his and their body and bodies issuing...
Strana 526 - Therefore all that the Courts of one country have to determine is, whether or not the thing called marriage, that known relation of persons, that relation which those Courts are acquainted with, and know how to deal with, has been validly contracted in the other country where the parties professed to bind themselves.
Strana 356 - Parlrichi, and many other authorities, which it is unnecessary to cite, because it is clear and undoubted law that, wherever an indictment lies for non-repair, an action on the case will lie at the suit of a party sustaining any peculiar damage. Now we are unable to see any sound distinction between a liability by prescription and a liability arising within time of memory, but legally created. We do not say that prescription necessarily implies a charter or grant, but it necessarily implies some...
Strana 196 - To the use of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and all and every other the son and sons of the body of the said...

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