Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery, from 1757 to 1766: From the Original Manuscripts of Lord Chancellor Northington, Volume 1J. Butterworth and Son, 1827 |
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... legacies to the plaintiffs , and the legacies after given to other persons , where she directs that they shall not be paid till a year after the person comes into possession of the estates on which they are charged . These legacies are ...
... legacies to the plaintiffs , and the legacies after given to other persons , where she directs that they shall not be paid till a year after the person comes into possession of the estates on which they are charged . These legacies are ...
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... legacies are given on future contingencies , so remote as not to be expected or waited for , a general failure of issue of Hugh . So that they must stand upon the foot of common legacies , depending on the mere bounty of the testator ...
... legacies are given on future contingencies , so remote as not to be expected or waited for , a general failure of issue of Hugh . So that they must stand upon the foot of common legacies , depending on the mere bounty of the testator ...
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... legacies in question are charged upon land , no one liable personally for the payment of them , nor are there any trustees appointed to raise them . Now could the land satisfy them in the lifetime of the join- tress ? It could only be ...
... legacies in question are charged upon land , no one liable personally for the payment of them , nor are there any trustees appointed to raise them . Now could the land satisfy them in the lifetime of the join- tress ? It could only be ...
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... legacies were certainly to be raised within six months after the contingency happened ; but , if there was a jointure , the will is silent , and has not made any provision to pre- vent the legacies being raised in that event : and these ...
... legacies were certainly to be raised within six months after the contingency happened ; but , if there was a jointure , the will is silent , and has not made any provision to pre- vent the legacies being raised in that event : and these ...
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... legacies . It was necessary for him to know how far his wife was interested under the will as a legatee , in order to determine which was his most prudent option . The legacy of £ 4000 was an important article on this head , which , by ...
... legacies . It was necessary for him to know how far his wife was interested under the will as a legatee , in order to determine which was his most prudent option . The legacy of £ 4000 was an important article on this head , which , by ...
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Page 263 - ... remainder to the first and other sons of the marriage in tail male; remainder to the first and other...
Page 216 - So the discretion which is to be executed here is to be governed by the rules of law and equity, which are not to oppose, but each in its turn to be subservient to the other. This discretion in some cases follows the law implicitly ; in others, assists it and advances the remedy ; in others again it relieves against the abuse or allays the rigour of it; but in no case does it contradict or overturn the grounds or principles thereof, as has been sometimes ignorantly imputed to this Court. That is...
Page 182 - I do direct that the receipt and receipts of my said trustees, and the survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor...
Page 410 - Dictionary, a perpetuity is defined to be any limitation tending to take the subject of it out of commerce for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years beyond; and in case of a posthumous child, a few months more, allowing for the term of gestation.
Page 323 - And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Page 111 - That if a man hath lands in fee and lands for years, and deviseth all his lands and tenements, the...
Page 142 - ... the condition was held void ; and although precedent in its character, that, nevertheless, the gift took effect. And in another case,4 where the testator directed, that if " his niece lived with her husband, his executors should pay her £ 2 per month, and no more ; but if she lived from him, and with her mother, then they should allow her =£5 per month " ; it was held that the legatee was entitled to the largest sum, without living apart from her husband ; and Lord Keeper Henly thought, as...
Page 50 - Philip the son for life, remainder to trustees to preserve contingent remainders, remainder to his first and other sons in tail male, remainder to...
Page 140 - No point is better established than that a person having a power must execute it bona fide for the end designed, otherwise it is corrupt and void.
Page 226 - Twenty years ago I imbibed this principle, that the trust is the estate at law in this Court, and governed by the same rules in general, as all real property is, by imitation.