 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 702 pages
...public highways are foundrous, paflengers are juftified, from principles of convenience and ncceffity, in turning out upon the land next the road. V. OFFICES,...bailiffs, receivers, and the like. For a man may have an eftate in them, either to him and his heirs, or for life, or for a term of years, or during pleafure... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1804 - 596 pages
...an incompatible OJIce. 108. De/lruaion of the Principal. Sedion I. Nature of an Office. AN office is a right to exercife a public or private •**• employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it : and all offices relating to land or exercifable within a particular diftrid, are... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Munford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 692 pages
...office. Office there meant no more than duty. An office had been defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging; whether public, as that of magistrate ; or private, as of bailiff, rect iver, or the like. 2 111. Com.... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1824 - 548 pages
...Office. 100. By the destruction of the Principal. SECTION I. Nature of. AN office is a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it; and all offices relating to land, or exerciseable within a particular district, are... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...way thus appurtenant to land or houses may clearly be created. Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates ; or private, as of bailiffs,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...in both cases, seems to correspond with the Roman'. (16) V. OFFICES, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments therennto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments ; 0 Fmch, law. 63. 1 Lord Raym.725. 1 Brownl.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 878 pages
...classed by Blackstone among incorporeal hereditaments; and an office is defined to be a right to exercise all the writers on the law of nature and nations, that the right of making war, which b whether public as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, or the like. 2 Comm.... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1836 - 1092 pages
...Disqualification under the Act for regulating Municipal Corporations, p. 806. AN office is a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it; and all offices relating to land, or exerciseable within a particular district, are... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Law - 1837 - 342 pages
...comprising the whole or part of the twenty years J v.-omccs. V. Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments : whether public, as those of magistrates ; or private, as of bailiffs,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...now speaking of may be reserved to the grantor in gross. V. Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments ; whether public, as those of magistrates ; or private, as of bailiffs,... | |
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