 | 1837 - 524 pages
...these courts will not take judicial notice of them. A particular custom to be valid must have been used 'from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." This is ' prescription,' or ' title by prescription :' and more accurately describes what is commonly called... | |
 | Augustus Charles VELEY - 1843 - 274 pages
...depend entirely upon the common law, he must induce your Lordships to come to this conclusion, that from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, this power has subsisted in the Churchwardens. It is quite clear that it could not originate in the year... | |
 | 1848 - 476 pages
...certificate these courts will not take judicial notice of them. A custom to be valid must have been used " from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. This is " prescription," or " title by preCUSTOMS. CUSTOMS. Kcriptiou ¡" and more accurately describes... | |
 | 1853 - 448 pages
...certificate these courts will not take jndicial notice of them. A custom to be valid must have been used " from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." This is " prescription," or " title by preícription ;" and more accurately describes what is commonly called... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 552 pages
...36,) the plaintiff in a writ of annuity counted upon a prescription in himself and his predecessors from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. This prescription the defendant traversed. A deed was produced bearing date in the year 1213, wherein the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 530 pages
...courts will not take judicial notice of them. A particular custom to be valid must have been used " from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." This is " prescription," or " title by prescription ; " and more accurately describes what is commonly called... | |
 | 1867 - 526 pages
...courts will not take judicial notice of them. A particular custom to be valid must have been used " from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." This is " prescription," or " title by prescription ; " and more accurately describes what is commonly called... | |
 | Northampton (England) - 1898 - 572 pages
...establish a custom in England to prove that it had existed from this remote period, or in other words " from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." This period has now, however, been shortened to twenty or thirty years. Text of the Charter. Ric Si gra... | |
 | Alvin Victor Sellers - 1919 - 318 pages
...rights were not first set forth in the Charters of Henry and John; those rights had been in existence "from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." This fact, immensely important to the consideration of the new laws of 1917, is well stated by Dr. Woodrow... | |
 | Sripati Charan Roy - 1911 - 670 pages
...immemorial custom. In England the rule is that the usage must be so ancient that it must have existed ' from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.' This hypothetical period, which is, in jurist's language, known as legal memory in contradiction to living... | |
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prescription," or " title by prescription ; " and more accurately describes what is commonly called " time immemorial," which means, says Littleton, " that no living witness hath heard any proof or had any knowledge to the contrary... 
