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Accord
not.* In the case of an ascertained debt, the acceptance of a smaller sum is no satisfaction, e.g., payment of Rs. 50. is no answer to an action for a debt of Rs. 100; though if anything … given, the legal effect of the transaction is that the original debt remains, but that the remedy is suspended until the maturity of the instrument in the hands of the creditor. The position is the same if
Burial
Burial. Burial in some part of the parish churchyard without payment is a Common Law right, but not burial in any particular part of it. In order to acquire … Book of Common Prayer.' See Escott v. Martin, (1841) 4 Moore, PC 104, in which a clergyman was suspended under the canon for refusing to bury a child which had been baptized by a
Uses
by statute 12 Ric. 2, c. 3. (10) At one time a use was not assets for the payment of debts by the heir or executor. There appears to have been a distinction between a use and … Conveyances to uses legalized many dispositions which were altogether void at the Common Law, for uses might be suspended, revived, postponed, and accelerated in a way altogether opposed to the rules of the ancient feudal law. Amongst
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