A History of English Law, Volume 3

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Methuen & Company, 1909 - Law
 

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Page 24 - Corinthian Tom. By Pierce Egan. With 36 Coloured Plates by IR and G. Cruikshank. With numerous Designs on Wood.
Page 13 - LIFE'S QUESTIONINGS. Cr. Bvo. 31. 6d. net. Patterson (AH). NOTES OF AN EAST COAST NATURALIST. Illustrated in Colour by F. SOUTHGATE, Second Edition. Cr. Bvo. 6s. NATURE IN EASTERN NORFOLK. A series of observations on the Birds, Fishes, Mammals, Reptiles, and Stalkeyed Crustaceans found in that neighbourhood, with a list of the species. With 12 Illustrations in colour, by FRANK SOUTHGATE.
Page 1 - A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG: English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. BARING-GOULD and HF SHEPPARD. Demy 4/0. 6s. SONGS OF THE WEST: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall. Collected from the Mouths of the People. ByS. BARING-GOULD, MA,and H.
Page 12 - See Books on Business. More (Sir Thomas). See Standard Library. Morflll (WR), Oriel College, Oxford. A HISTORY OF RUSSIA FROM PETER THE GREAT TO ALEXANDER II. With Maps and Plans. Cr.
Page 24 - THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR. By Pierce Egan. With 27 Coloured Plates by Theodore Lane, and several Designs on Wood. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
Page 114 - It is not the uncertainty of ever taking effect in possession that makes a remainder contingent ; for to that every remainder for life or in tail is and must be liable ; as the remainderman may die or die without issue before the death of the tenant for life. The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested...
Page 91 - Coke (vo1. 1, 1040,) is, that 'when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase.
Page 15 - Robinson (AW), MA See Churchman's Bible. Robinson (Cecilia). THE MINISTRY OF DEACONESSES. With an Introduction by the late Archbishop of Canterbury. Cr.
Page 26 - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVOUT LIFE. By St. Francis de Sales. Translated and Edited by T. Barns, MA, MANCHESTER AL MONDO: a Contemplation of Death and Immortality. By Henry Montagu, Earl of Manchester. With an Introduction by Elizabeth Waterhouse, Editor of '" A Little Book of Life and Death.
Page 8 - Hill (Clare). See Textbooks of Technology. Hill (Henry), BA, Headmaster of the Boy's High School, Worcester, Cape Colony. A SOUTH AFRICAN ARITHMETIC. Cr.

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