Mozley and Whiteley's Law DictionaryButterworth, 1904 - 346 頁 |
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25 Vict abolished Act of parliament action Admiralty ancient appeal appointed assize Bankruptcy bill of exchange bishop borough called cause chattel civil claim common law Common Pleas contract conveyance copyhold corporation county court Court of Chancery court of equity Court of Justice Cowel creditor criminal Crown custom damages debt debtor deed defendant dower duty ecclesiastical entitled equity Exchequer execution executor fee simple felony feoffment formerly freehold given granted heirs High Court House of Lords indictment indorsement issue judge judgment Judicature Act jurisdiction jury king King's Bench knight-service land lease manor marriage matter May's Parl ment Nisi Prius offence officer opposed owner parish party payable payment peace person phrase plaintiff pleading possession proceedings rent sessions sheriff ship signifies solicitor stat statute Steph suit tenant tenure thereof tion tithes trial trust whereby word writ of right
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第 243 頁 - A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — A Promissory Note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money...
第 36 頁 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
第 286 頁 - It is a rule in law, 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.
第 316 頁 - ... in actions of debt or upon the case grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take any case out of the operation of...
第 284 頁 - A riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent mutually to assist one another against any who shall oppose them in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful.
第 343 頁 - An estate for life without impeachment of waste shall not confer or be deemed to have conferred upon the tenant for life any legal right to commit waste of the description known as equitable waste, unless an intention to confer such right shall expressly appear by the instrument creating such estate.
第 339 頁 - Majesty's justices of the peace for any county, riding, division, liberty, city, borough, or place within England or Wales, that any person has committed or is suspected to have committed any treason, felony, or indictable misdemeanor, or other indictable offence whatsoever...
第 203 頁 - But these purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence whereof the lands became perpetually inherent in one dead hand, this hath occasioned the general appellation of mortmain to be applied to such...
第 342 頁 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
第 163 頁 - An inland bill of exchange is a bill which is, or on its face purports to be, both drawn and payable within this state. Any other bill is a foreign bill. Unless the contrary appears on the face of the bill, the holder may treat it as an inland bill.