Shakespeare's Testamentary LanguageLongmans, Green, and Company, 1869 - 56 pages |
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... executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the ...
... executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the ...
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... executor or administrator , but to the heir along with the house itself by custom , and not by the common law . For a man by the common law cannot be heir to goods and chattels .'- ( I . Inst . 18 b .; 185 b . ) Heir - loom ( says ...
... executor or administrator , but to the heir along with the house itself by custom , and not by the common law . For a man by the common law cannot be heir to goods and chattels .'- ( I . Inst . 18 b .; 185 b . ) Heir - loom ( says ...
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... executor or ad- ministrator ought to exhibit to the Bishop or ordinary at such time as he shall appoint . ( West . Symb . , part I. , lib . 2 , sec . 396. ) The word label has two significations : it signifies a paper annexed by way of ...
... executor or ad- ministrator ought to exhibit to the Bishop or ordinary at such time as he shall appoint . ( West . Symb . , part I. , lib . 2 , sec . 396. ) The word label has two significations : it signifies a paper annexed by way of ...
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... Executor is named . For by the naming of an Executor it differeth from the rest . - Swinburn , 3 . All . The will ! the testament ! Sec . Cit . They were villains , murderers : the will ! read the will . WILL OR TESTAMENT . Ant . You ...
... Executor is named . For by the naming of an Executor it differeth from the rest . - Swinburn , 3 . All . The will ! the testament ! Sec . Cit . They were villains , murderers : the will ! read the will . WILL OR TESTAMENT . Ant . You ...
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... executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the ...
... executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the ...
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AIGBURTH APPENDIX bequest of soul Berlin Society Campbell's cautele under heaven chattels child civill lawe cleave commit common law Cowell custom death differeth disposing divers doth executor Faerie Queene former furor or insanitie generall hath heir heir-looms Henrie Swinburn Henry Herne the hunter honour Illustrated by Old insanitie of minde inventoried Julius Cæsar label Laertes lands Launce legacie legatarie Lex Scripta London Lord Campbell Macbeth Madfolkes maie ment Merchant of Venice Old Authors passage personal property praise province of Yorke real property Richard II Romeo and Juliet sense Shakespeare a Lawyer Shakespeare Illustrated Shakespeare's Legal Maxims SHAKESPEARE'S TESTAMENTARY LANGUAGE sick in body signification single bond souldier speak Sprachen Swin Swinburn tenements Testament and Last testator dooth testator having bequeathed testator saie thee thing thou tuition tutor Twelfth Night unthrifte unto whereof wife WILLIAM LOWES RUSHTON word bequeath word devise
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Page 26 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 32 - Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 10 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 43 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...
Page 3 - Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men ; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad : 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O, what would come of it ! 4 Cit.
Page 3 - Have patience, gentle friends; I must not read it : It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men, And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O ! what would come of it ? 4 Cit.