The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 27Saunders and Benning, 1842 |
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Page 266 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter 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...
Page 149 - ... him, her, or them to the use of such consignee or consignees, in the like manner to all intents and purposes...
Page 117 - ... shall be in some particular or particulars in the judgment of such court or judge not material to the merits of the case, but such as that the opposite party may have been prejudiced thereby in the conduct of his action, prosecution, or defence...
Page 328 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world — that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the...
Page 392 - An invention for the improved application of air to produce heat in fires, forges, and furnaces where bellows or other blowing apparatus are required...
Page 207 - An act to amend and render more effectual an act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An act to amend the acts for building and promoting the building of additional churches in populous parishes...
Page 149 - ... and for default of such issue, to the use of the second, third, fourth, fifth, and all and every other the son and sons of the body of the said...
Page 383 - And in /. for money then and there received by the defendant, for the use of the plaintiff: And in i for money found to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff, on an account then and there stated between them: And whereas the defendant afterwards, on, &c.
Page 166 - ... should be demanded, the payee should produce the necessary papers and indenture to prove that the girl was a slave or bound to service under the laws of the State...
Page 43 - To understand the meaning of any writer, we must first be apprised of the persons and circumstances that are the subjects of his allusions or statements; and if these are not fully disclosed in his work, we must look for illustration to the history of the times in which he wrote, and to the works of contemporaneous authors. All the facts and circumstances, therefore, respecting persons or property, to which the will relates, are undoubtedly legitimate, and often necessary evidence, to enable us to...