A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench: Common Pleas, Exchequer, and at Nisi Prius ; and of the Rules of Court, from the Restoration in 1660, to Michaelmas Term, 4 Geo. IV. With Important Manuscript Cases, Alphabetically, Chronologically, and Systematically Arranged and Translated ; with Copius Notes and References to the Year Books, Analogous Adjudications, Text Writers, and Statutes, Specifying what Decisions Have Been Affirmed, Recognised, Qualified, Or Over-ruled ; Comprising a Practical Treatise on the Different Branches of the Common Law, Količina 3

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Treadway, 1830
 

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Stran 230 - THERE are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial statutes ; the old law, the mischief, and the remedy : that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act ; what the mischief was, for which the common law did not provide ; and what remedy the parliament hath provided to cure this mischief. And it is the business of the judges so to construe the act, as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy e.
Stran 279 - Know ye, therefore, that We, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said...
Stran 336 - ... or make or cause to be made, either within this realm or elsewhere, any fraudulent grant or conveyance of any of his lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, or make or cause to be made any fraudulent surrender of any of his copyhold lands or tenements, or make or cause to bo made any fraudulent gift, delivery, or transfer of any of his goods or chattels...
Stran 484 - That the Commissioners shall assign to the Assignees, for the Benefit of the Creditors of the Bankrupt, all the present and future Personal Estate of such Bankrupt wheresoever the same may be found or known, and all Property which he may purchase, or which may revert, descend, be devised or bequeathed or come to him...
Stran 411 - I AB do swear that I will faithfully, impartially, and honestly, according to the best of my skill and judgment...
Stran 282 - An act for the abrogating of the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, and appointing other oaths...
Stran 562 - ... or if there shall have been a verdict at law establishing its validity, to order the bankrupt to join in any conveyance of such estate, or any part thereof...
Stran 430 - ... he might be discharged, it shall be lawful for the Court or judge before whom such party shall be brought by habeas corpus...
Stran 444 - ... security, as if the same was payable presently, and receive dividends equally with the other creditors, deducting only thereout a rebate of interest for what he shall so receive, at the rate of five per cent., to be computed from the declaration of a dividend to the time such debt would have become payable, according to the terms upon which it was contracted.
Stran 285 - ... such by-laws and ordinances, for and relating to the affairs and government of the said corporation, and the imposing mulcts and amerciaments upon offenders against the same, as to them shall seem meet, so that such by-laws be not repugnant to the laws of this Our kingdom, and be confirmed and approved, according to the statutes in such case made and provided.