A General Abridgement of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles; with Notes and References to the Whole, 第 12 卷

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G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1801
 

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第 9 頁 - ... if there be more than one,) and also the name of the casual ejector: And unless the rule for judgment be drawn up, and taken away from the office of the clerk of the rules...
第 277 頁 - Now the general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is, that they are declarations made in extremity when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth...
第 46 頁 - ... days of the next term, the motion for judgment against the casual ejector should regularly be made in the beginning of that term ; and then the tenant must appear within four days, inclusive, after the motion, or the plaintiff will be entitled to judgment.
第 417 頁 - Promissory Note for Payment of Money, or any Acquittance or Receipt, either for Money or Goods...
第 342 頁 - First, where a merchant abroad has effects in the hands of his correspondent here, he has a right to expect that he will obey an order to insure, because he is entitled to call his money out of the other's hands when and in what manner he pleases.
第 33 頁 - Twenty years' adverse possession is a positive title to the defendant : it is not a bar to the action or remedy of the plaintiff only, but takes away his right of possession.
第 268 頁 - ... a confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it ; and therefore it is rejected.
第 266 頁 - Defence, becaufe it may be probable that he admitted it out of Apprehenfion that it might be proved, and therefore fuch Admittance ought not to profit him, fo far as to pafs for Truth whatever he fays in Avoidance. But if it had been one...
第 419 頁 - ... falfely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or caufe or procure to be falfely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or...
第 277 頁 - ... they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth- a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath in a court of justice.

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