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... houses . Things which the owner has placed on an estate , for its service and amelioration , are immoveable by ... house - bee - hives , mills , kettles , alembics , tubs and casks , and other machinery for carrying on works ; and , in ...
... houses . Things which the owner has placed on an estate , for its service and amelioration , are immoveable by ... house - bee - hives , mills , kettles , alembics , tubs and casks , and other machinery for carrying on works ; and , in ...
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... or the fruits of a thing , belonging to another , without prejudice to the right of property ; and habitation is the right of dwelling gratuitously in another house . He who has the use 64 [ September , Jurisprudence of Louisiana .
... or the fruits of a thing , belonging to another , without prejudice to the right of property ; and habitation is the right of dwelling gratuitously in another house . He who has the use 64 [ September , Jurisprudence of Louisiana .
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gratuitously in another house . He who has the use only , can take such fruits alone as are necessary for his own use and that of his family . He is liable for the annual charges on the property , and for casual repairs . 3d ...
gratuitously in another house . He who has the use only , can take such fruits alone as are necessary for his own use and that of his family . He is liable for the annual charges on the property , and for casual repairs . 3d ...
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... houses , or the hire of slaves engaged in farming on the crop , and furniture in the house or farm , and on every thing which serves for working the farm - the debt secured by special pledge , on the thing pledged - for money expended ...
... houses , or the hire of slaves engaged in farming on the crop , and furniture in the house or farm , and on every thing which serves for working the farm - the debt secured by special pledge , on the thing pledged - for money expended ...
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... houses , for boarding and lodging - to day labourers for their work and materials furnished , and domes- tics who let their services by the year . Arrears due on life annuities , alimony , the rent of houses , and rural estates ...
... houses , for boarding and lodging - to day labourers for their work and materials furnished , and domes- tics who let their services by the year . Arrears due on life annuities , alimony , the rent of houses , and rural estates ...
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Page 274 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY.
Page 274 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Page 147 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page 273 - But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, my course be onward still.
Page 266 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Page 125 - Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides.
Page 125 - The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and...
Page 147 - I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries ; in the filthy acts of uncleanness and cruelty not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...
Page 146 - When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn ; and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with.