The Law Reports: Equity cases, before the Master of Rolls and the vice-chancellors, Volume 15T. & J. W. Johnson & Company, 1873 |
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... contract in the settlement , or upon the trusts of the will . The case is governed by Wallace v . Attorney General ( 1 ) , where it was laid down that the residuary estate of a testator domiciled abroad is not subject to succession duty ...
... contract in the settlement , or upon the trusts of the will . The case is governed by Wallace v . Attorney General ( 1 ) , where it was laid down that the residuary estate of a testator domiciled abroad is not subject to succession duty ...
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... Contract . An applicant for shares in a company denied that he had received the- letter of allotment , which was posted in London on the 16th of March , and should have arrived on the 17th ; and , having written on the 17th recalling ...
... Contract . An applicant for shares in a company denied that he had received the- letter of allotment , which was posted in London on the 16th of March , and should have arrived on the 17th ; and , having written on the 17th recalling ...
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... contract to take shares in a company there must be an application for the shares , and there must be an allotment and a communication of the allotment to the applicant ; and it is not sufficient that the letter should have been posted ...
... contract to take shares in a company there must be an application for the shares , and there must be an allotment and a communication of the allotment to the applicant ; and it is not sufficient that the letter should have been posted ...
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... contract from the time when the letter was posted . If , then , a contract is binding as soon as the letter is posted , how can the contract become of no effect because the letter is not delivered ? It would be quite as ( 2 ) 1 H. L. C. ...
... contract from the time when the letter was posted . If , then , a contract is binding as soon as the letter is posted , how can the contract become of no effect because the letter is not delivered ? It would be quite as ( 2 ) 1 H. L. C. ...
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... contract , if it were held that the person offering it were not bound , as it would be to hold the reverse ; and mercantile transactions would be materially affected WALL'S CASE . by such a state of the law . It is true that in British ...
... contract , if it were held that the person offering it were not bound , as it would be to hold the reverse ; and mercantile transactions would be materially affected WALL'S CASE . by such a state of the law . It is true that in British ...
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Act of Parliament affidavit alleged amount annuity appears application appointed assigns Attorney-General authority bankruptcy Beav BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY bill of sale BUILDING SOCIETY Cama claim consent contract Corporation costs County Court Court of Chancery covenant creditors dated daughter death debts decision declared decree deed Defendant demurrer devised entitled executed executors filed Folkestone Forsbrook Frazer fund heirs held insolvency interest JAMES BACON James Fawcett James Sanderson John Joseph Fawcett judgment land Law Rep legacy liquidation London Lord M. H. Synge Mary Bateman ment Messrs mortgage ne exeat nieces notice paid parties payment personal estate Petition Petitioner Plaintiff Plaintiff Bank possession proceedings protector Pudsey purchaser question real estate respect rule set-off settled settlement settlor shares shew SIR JAMES BACON Sobey Solicitors statute succession duty suit summons tenant testator's testatrix tion trustees Vice-Chancellor Vict wife words
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Page 87 - Grew, all my lands [naming them particularly;] to hold the same, with their appurtenances. to him the said George Grew, for and during the term of his natural life...
Page 243 - ... that the register may be rectified ; and the court may either refuse such application, with or without costs, to be paid by the applicant, or it may, if satisfied of the justice of the case, make an order for the rectification of the register...
Page 11 - Every past or future disposition of property, by reason whereof any person has, or shall, become beneficially entitled to any property or the income thereof upon the death of any person...
Page 179 - An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance...
Page 189 - Thus under a settlement containing a limitation to A. for ninety-nine years, if he should so long live, with remainder to trustees during the life of A.
Page 405 - From the principle that a share of a partner is nothing more than his proportion of the partnership assets after they have been turned into money and applied in liquidation of the partnership debts, it necessarily follows that in equity a share in a partnership, whether its property consists of land or not, must, as between the real and personal representatives of a deceased partner, be deemed to be personal, and not real, estate, unless, indeed, such conversion is inconsistent with the agreement...
Page 403 - He then devised and bequeathed his real and personal estate unto " his said trustees, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, according to the nature and tenure thereof...
Page 87 - I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Sarah Barry for and during the term of her natural life...
Page 185 - Chancery within six calendar months after the execution thereof: provided further nevertheless, that the person who but for this clause would have been sole protector of the settlement, may be one of the persons to be appointed protector under this clause, if the settlor shall think fit, and snail, unless otherwise directed by the settlor, act as sole protector, if the other persons constituting the protector shall have ceased to be so by death or relinquishment of the office by deed, and no other...
Page 110 - ... belonging, and the use of all my household goods, plate, linen, and other household furniture of every sort and kind which shall be about my said messuage or tenement at the time of my decease...