Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (Partly Founded on Blackstone.)

Henry John Stephen

Butterworths, 1874 - 2886 pages

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Book	1

Of Corporations Aggregate and Sole	19

Of Colleges in the Universities	31

CHAP II	43

Of the Poor Law Amendment	55

Of the Local Government Board	62

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO CHARITIES AND BENEVOLENT	70

Of Benevolent Institutions	80

Of the London Court of Bankruptcy	354

OF CIVIL INJURIES COGNIZABLE AT COMMON	372

Of Injuries affecting Property in Things Real	385

Of Injuries affecting Property in Things Personal	420

Of Injuries affecting a Mans Rights in his Private Relations	436

Of Injuries affecting a Mans Public Rights	443

Of the Subjects of Jurisdiction in Equity	455

Of the Specific Performance of Agreements	461

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Page 451 - Act had not passed) to pass and transfer the legal right to such debt or chose in action from the date of such notice, and all legal and other remedies for the same, and the power to give a good discharge for the same without the concurrence of the assignor...‎

Appears in 229 books from 1835-2007

Page 502 - A defendant in an action may set off, or set up, by way of counter-claim against the claims of the plaintiff, any right or claim, whether such set-off or counter-claim sound in damages or not, and such set-off or counterclaim shall have the same effect as a statement of claim in a cross action, so as to enable the Court to pronounce a final judgment in the same action, both on the original and on the cross claim.‎

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Page 66 - Hereditaments rated thereunto; that is to say, of the Rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...‎

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Page 471 - One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, no arrears of rent or of interest in respect of any sum of money charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, or in respect of any legacy, or any damages in respect of such arrears of rent or interest, shall be recovered by any distress, action, or suit, but within six years next after the same respectively shall have become due...‎

Appears in 225 books from 1800-2003

Page 494 - Act annexed (on which judgment no proceeding in error shall lie) for any sum not exceeding the sum indorsed on the writ, together with interest, at the rate specified (if any), to the date of the judgment, and a sum for costs...‎

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Page 560 - Or. 39, r. 6, it 13 provided that a new trial shall not be granted on the ground of misdirection or of the improper admission or rejection of evidence, or...‎

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Page 451 - A mortgagor entitled for the time being to the possession or receipt of the rents and profits of any land, as to which no notice of his intention to take possession or to enter into the receipt of the rents and profits thereof shall have been given by the mortgagee...‎

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Page 405 - An estate for life without impeachment of waste shall not confer or be deemed to have conferred upon the tenant for life any legal right to commit waste of the description known as equitable waste, unless an intention to confer such right shall expressly appear by the instrument creating such estate.‎

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Page 452 - This day was to arrive, Maitland thought, through the operation of Sub-section 11 of Section 25 of the Judicature Act of 1875, which says: "Generally in all matters not hereinbefore particularly mentioned, in which there is any conflict or variance between the rules of equity and the rules of common law with reference to the same matter, the rules of equity shall prevail.‎

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Page 241 - But as the public peace is a superior consideration to any one man's private property; and as, if individuals were once allowed to use private force as a remedy for private injuries, all social justice must cease, the strong would give law to the weak, and every man would revert to a state of nature...‎

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Title	Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (Partly Founded on Blackstone.) Volume 1 of Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England:, Henry John Stephen
Author	Henry John Stephen
Editor	James Stephen
Edition	7
Publisher	Butterworths, 1874
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	20 Sep 2006
Length	2886 pages

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Of Friendly Societies	87

CHAP IV	93

Of Sites for Schools and for Institutions	102

Of Reformatory Schools	108

Of Gaolers	123

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES	128

Of the Millbank Prison	131

Of Turnpike Roads	138

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF	168

Of The Public Health Act 1848	175

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO THE PRESS	191

Of The Public Health Act 1872	199

Of Refreshment Houses	200

Of Apothecaries	206

Of the Schools of Anatomy	214

CHAP XIV	223

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS Deaths	231

Book V	239

OF REDRESS BY THE MERE OPERATION OF	263

CHAP III	269

OF THE INFERIOR COURTS OF JUSTICE	278

CHAP V	319

Of the Court of Queens Bench	331

Of the Court of Exchequer	339

Of the Court of Probate	347

Of Limitations as to Entry or Distress and Proceedings for	467

4	470

Of the Law Terms	489

Of the Pleadings	498

Of the Trial and Evidence	512

Of the Judgment or Decree and Costs	547

42	552

CHAP X	557

Of Execution	573

43	575

Of the Motion by way of Interpleader	590

OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN SOME PARTICULAR ACTIONS	605

Of a Suit in Chancery as hitherto conducted	609

Of the Action of Replevin	613

Of the Action of Ejectment	620

OF MOTIONS AND PREROGATIVE WRITS	627

Of the Writ of Prohibition	635

Of the Writ of Habeas Corpus	643

Of the Writ of Certiorari	652

Of the Manner of obtaining Redress from the Crown	658

Of an Extent in Chief	667

Of the Origin of Banks	674

Of Railways	677

Of Actions for Specific Recovery of Property or for Damages	682