A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis; with the Annotations of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; and a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time, Volume 1

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Page 37 - terras, where a man may reasonably discern between shore and shore, is, or at least may be, within the body of a county, and therefore within the jurisdiction of the sheriff or coroner. The part of the sea which lies not within the body of a county, is called the main sea or ocean.
Page 154 - The eleemosynary sort are such as are constituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms, or bounty, of the founder of them, to such persons as he has directed. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintainance of the poor, sick, and impotent ; and all colleges, both in our universities and out of them,
Page 103 - (A) Our law considers marriage in no other light than as a civil contract; it treats it as it does all other contracts, allowing it to be good and valid in all cases, where the parties, at the time of making it, were, in the first place, willing to contract,
Page 54 - omitted supremum caput. And after her marriage with King Philip, the style, notwithstanding that omission, was the longest that ever was, viz. Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England and France, Naples, Jerusalem, and
Page 158 - enacted, that no lands or tenements, or money to be laid out thereon, shall be given for, or charged upon any charitable uses whatsoever unless by deed indented, executed in the presence of two witnesses twelve calendar months before the death of the donor, and enrolled in the court of chancery within six months after its execution, (except
Page 55 - (D) The peers of the realm are by their birth hereditary counsellors of the crown, and may be called together by the king to impart their advice in all matters of importance to the realm, either in time of parliament, or, which has been their particular use, when there is no parliament in being, though such
Page 415 - 1., obtained the above-mentioned statute De donis, which enacted, that from thenceforth the will of the donor should be observed ; and that the tenements so given (to a man and the heirs of his body) should at all events go to the issue if there were any ; or, if none, should revert to the donor.
Page 404 - In a modern case it was contended, that the words " to the use of all and every the child or children equally, share and share alike, if more than one as tenants in common, and not as joint-tenants, and if but one child, then to such only child, his or her heirs or assigns for ever,
Page 172 - doth not make any thing appendant or appurtenant, * unless the thing appendant or appurtenant agree in quality and nature to the thing whereunto it is appendant or appurtenant; as a thing corporeal cannot properly be appendant to a thing corporeal, nor a thing incorporeal to a thing incorporeal. (17) But things incorporeal, which lie
Page 478 - that no attainder for felony, except for the crimes of high treason, petit treason, or murder, or of abetting, procuring, or counselling the same. shall extend to the disinheriting of any heir, nor to the prejudice of the rights of any person other than the