Lord Hardwicke is reported to have said, upon the act of 8 Anne, c. 19,'the clause of registering with the Stationers Company, is relative to the penalty, and the property cannot vest without such entry,'for the words are,'that nothing in this act shall be construed to subject any bookseller, &c. to the forfeitures, &c. by reason of printing any book, &c. unless the title to the copy …

But this must not be carried so far as to restrain persons from making a real and fair abridgment; for abridgments may, with great propriety, be called a new book, because not only the paper and print, but the invention, learning, and judgment of the author is shewn in them, and in many cases are extremely useful, though in some instances prejudicial, by mistaking and …

—asking the Court to resolve the narrow question whether a shortened work could be considered a new work

That Charles Esenwein or his firm was a necessary party to the bill, and that the failure to make him such party is a fatal defect.

The fundamental doctrine as involved in the case before me is, "when a will is to be established, the testator must be proved to be of sound and disposing mind."

The Court of Appeals say, that,'as a county, she stands to the state in the relation of a child to a parent;'and this would furnish consideration enough.

Thus, in an abridgement case of 1740, the Lord Chancellor found that the question was "[w] hether this book of theNew Crown Law, which the defendant has published, is the same with Sir Matthew Hale's..., the copy of which is now the property of the plaintiff," and concluded that "[w] here books are colourably shortened only, they are undoubtedly within the meaning of …

—a trust never results, except where all the money is paid by one person, is, that where the joint advance is in conformity with an agreement of purchase a trust will result.

F. 49S Such as to A. for life, remainder to the heirs of her body, and their executors, administrators, and assigns.

—the plaintiff was in ventre sa mere at the time of her brother' s death, and consequently a person in rerum natura, so that both by the rules of the common and civil law, she was, to all intents and purposes, a child, as much as if born in the father' s lifetime