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Replevin

the right with the distrainer, and to answer him in a course of law, the Pocket Lawyer and Family Conveyancer 105, 3rd Edn., 1833. Replevin, lies, where specific personal property has been wrongfully taken and is wrongfully … remedy ground and granted upon a distress, being a re-deliverance of the thing distained to remain with the first possessor, on security or pledges given by him to try the right with the distrainer, and to answer … rent), by contesting the validity of the seizure, whereas, if the owner prefer to have damages instead, the validity may be contested by action of

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Marriage

their outward acts. See, e.g., the remarkable case were, inspite of an express public declaration before the woman's family by the man, 'Maggie, you are my wife, before heaven, so help me, O God !'it was held … (1843) 4 QB 406. Marriage of Nonconformists.--The marriage of dissenters in general, according to their own rites, was first provided for by the (English) Marriage Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 85), amended by the … above referred to. Marriage can also be solemnized, if the parties so prefer, by the registrar alone, after notice and certificate of license, at the

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