A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes, Volume 2

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Page 399 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 411 - ... herein-before limited shall have expired, make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover such land or rent...
Page 326 - Henry the son for life, remainder to trustees to preserve contingent remainders, remainder to...
Page 77 - It is a well-established rule of law that where a contract, not under seal, is made with an agent, in his own name, for an undisclosed principal, either the agent or the principal may sue upon it, the defendant, in the latter case, being entitled to be placed in the same situation, at the time of the disclosure of the real principal, as if the agent had been the contracting party.
Page 178 - ... due on either side on the balance of such account and no more, shall be claimed or paid on either side respectively...
Page 408 - Who shall have been in such possession or receipt, then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time of such death ; and when the person claiming such laud or rent shall claim in respect of an estate or interest in possession...
Page 146 - 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...
Page 216 - ... with him is not principal, but agent, and also knows who the principal really is, and, notwithstanding all that knowledge, chooses to make the agent his debtor, dealing with him and him alone, then, according to the cases of Addison v.
Page 310 - ... entry or distress, or to bring such action, shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims: or if such right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims, then within...
Page 408 - ... receipt of the rent, and no person entitled under such instrument shall have been in such possession or receipt, then such right shall be deemed to have first accrued at the time at which the person claiming as aforesaid, or the person through whom he claims, became entitled to such possession or receipt by virtue of such instrument...

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