Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books; with an Analysis of the Work. With a Life of the Author, and Notes: by Christian, Chitty, Lee, Hovenden, and Ryland: and Also References to American Cases, Volum 1W.E. Dean, 1838 |
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Side xxii
... heirs of her body , being pro- testants and she is now the common stock , from whom the heirs of the crown must descend CHAPTER IV . Page 227-230 Page 1. The king's councils are , I. The Par- liament . II . The great council of peers ...
... heirs of her body , being pro- testants and she is now the common stock , from whom the heirs of the crown must descend CHAPTER IV . Page 227-230 Page 1. The king's councils are , I. The Par- liament . II . The great council of peers ...
Side xxix
... heirs of his body , in ex- clusion of collateral heirs 9. These were held to be fees , granted on condition that the donee had issue of his body ; which condition being once performed by the birth of issue , the donee might immediately ...
... heirs of his body , in ex- clusion of collateral heirs 9. These were held to be fees , granted on condition that the donee had issue of his body ; which condition being once performed by the birth of issue , the donee might immediately ...
Side 40
... heirs of her body , being protestants , " it becomes necessary to call in the assistance of lawyers , to ascertain the precise idea of the words " heirs of her body , " which , in a legal sense , comprise only certain of her lineal ...
... heirs of her body , being protestants , " it becomes necessary to call in the assistance of lawyers , to ascertain the precise idea of the words " heirs of her body , " which , in a legal sense , comprise only certain of her lineal ...
Side 52
... heirs male , and never to the heirs female ; " and also to shew " that ( a ) 8 Rep . 126. Cro . Car . 347 . ( b ) Winch . 24 . ( 13 ) The ler mercatoria , or the custom of merchants , like the lex et consuetudo parlia- menti , describes ...
... heirs male , and never to the heirs female ; " and also to shew " that ( a ) 8 Rep . 126. Cro . Car . 347 . ( b ) Winch . 24 . ( 13 ) The ler mercatoria , or the custom of merchants , like the lex et consuetudo parlia- menti , describes ...
Side 62
... heirs by act of parliament , saving the right of A. , and A. has at that time a lease of it for three years : here A. shall hold it for his term of three years , and afterwards it shall go to the king . For this interpretation furnishes ...
... heirs by act of parliament , saving the right of A. , and A. has at that time a lease of it for three years : here A. shall hold it for his term of three years , and afterwards it shall go to the king . For this interpretation furnishes ...
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Side 353 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Side 403 - I proceed to distribute and consider its several objects. •There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, [ *2 ] and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Side 353 - For this reason, a man cannot grant any thing to his wife, or enter into covenant with her ; for the grant would be to suppose her separate existence; and to covenant with her, would be only to covenant with himself...
Side 317 - For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himself.
Side 322 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Side 114 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations...
Side 114 - ... this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms. All mischiefs and grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary tribunal.
Side 100 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Side 46 - ... as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments...
Side 26 - This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.