A Compendium and Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts, Հատոր 1,Մաս 2

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Munroe, Francis, and Parker, 1811

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Էջ 330 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Էջ 389 - And that no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, superiority, preeminence, authority, dispensing or other power, in any matter, civil, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this Commonwealth...
Էջ 236 - Eli/. с. 2, to be punished by six months' imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured. 12. Maintenance is an offence that bears a near relation to the former; being an officious intermeddling in a suit that no way belongs to one, by maintaining or assisting either party with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it: (u) a practice that was greatly encouraged by the first introduction of uses.
Էջ 389 - I, AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be, a Free, Sovereign and Independent State...
Էջ 333 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Էջ 369 - The issue must be born alive. Some have had a notion that it must be heard to cry; but that is a mistake. Crying indeed is the strongest evidence of its being born alive ; but it is not the only evidence.
Էջ 336 - ... the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf.
Էջ 372 - That it have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.!
Էջ 372 - It must have been peaceable, and acquiesced in; not subject to contention and dispute. (£) For as customs owe their original to common consent, their being immemorially disputed, either at law or otherwise, is a proof that such consent was wanting.
Էջ 352 - ... notice, expiring with the first three years, was not sufficient for that purpose; Lord Kenyon, CJ observing, that it had frequently been said, and common sense seemed to justify it, that conditions were to be construed to be either precedent or subsequent, according to the fair intention of the parties, to be collected from the instrument ; and that technical words, if there were any to encounter such intention, (and there were not in this case) should give way to that intention...

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