Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Volum 7H.O. Houghton and Company, 1864 |
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Massachusetts Reports, Volum 244 Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1924 |
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Side 160 - Coke (vo1. 1, 1040,) is, that 'when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase.
Side 278 - And this difference was taken, that where the law creates a duty or charge, and the party is disabled to perform it without any default in him, and hath no remedy over, there the law will excuse him.
Side 207 - a hurt of any part of a man's body whereby he is rendered less able, in...
Side 67 - The case was tried by the court in lieu of a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that the plaintiff...
Side 274 - Congress above mentioned and an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States and the several acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed.
Side 199 - ... if the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.
Side 58 - I have good right to sell and convey the same as aforesaid ; and that I will and my heirs, executors, and administrators, shall warrant and defend the same to the grantee and his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
Side 42 - Holt, and agreed to by the whole bench, " that if a contract be per verba de prcesenti, it amounts to an actual marriage, which the very parties themselves cannot dissolve by release or other mutual agreement; for it is as much a marriage in the sight of God as if it had been in facie Ecclesice...
Side 92 - As the law will not imply a promise where there was an express promise, so the law will not imply a promise of any person against his own express declaration.
Side 241 - ... had and received by the defendant to the use of the plaintiff...