Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: From the Sittings After Hilary Term, 50 Geo. III. 1810, to the Sittings After Easter Term, 51 Geo. III. 1811

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Side 342 - There is a great difference between length of time which operates as a bar to a claim, and that which is only used by way of evidence.
Side 43 - ... for the payment and satisfaction unto the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors, of his or their arrearages, at any time hereafter to be lawfully, according to the laws of this realm, adjudged and determined upon his or their account (all his, due and reasonable petitions being allowed) be liable to the payment thereof, and be put and had in execution for the payment of such arrearages or debts to be so adjudged and determined upon, any such Treasurer...
Side 342 - But length of time used merely by way of evidence may be left to the consideration of the jury, to be credited or not, and to draw their inference one way or the other according to circumstances.
Side 341 - ... objections or exceptions had been made in the lives of the parties, without any question they had been answered, or otherwise, in so many successions of ages it would have been impeached or impugned.
Side 303 - I am glad they are not in print, for then they might have misled more than they have already * * * It is a strange notion, and most so in the present case. What is it founded upon? that it is not likely that the owners of lands would agree to pay more than the value of the lands. But we cannot go upon presumptions, but proof; and what proof is there of the value of lands in this country at the time of Richard I.
Side 268 - CD his executors, adminiftrators and affigns, from the day of the date of thefe prefents, for and during...
Side 39 - If any one is accountant to the king, or if any money or goods, or chattels personal of the king, come to the hands of any...
Side 294 - Brooke, material difference subsists between a farm-payment and one for a particular species of produce. In the former many reasons may have prevented the tithes from being agreed for at their proper price. The owner may have meant a bounty to the clergyman ; or he may have wished to pay for an exemption from tithes for the sake of improvements. Besides, it is hardly possible to ascertain the comparative value of the land, or of the produce, in former times ; and the court should not be nice in judging...
Side 342 - ... a charter. In the case of a supposed bye-law, usage is allowed to support it, without any proof of the existence of such a bye-law, or of the loss of it. But the principle is a right one, namely, in favour of rights which parties have long been in the quiet possession of. I have myself...
Side 342 - Homer (a), where the court held, that a grant or charter from the crown, which ought to be by matter of record, may, under legal circumstances, be presumed) though within legal time of memory.

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