The English Reports: Chancery (including collateral reports) (1557-1865), Volume 33W. Green, 1903 |
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... called upon to say was , that a Will , a mere voluntary act as much as the deed , should not be a revocation of the deed ; that the deed should operate against the Will : that is , that the Court would not deny to the deed its legal ...
... called upon to say was , that a Will , a mere voluntary act as much as the deed , should not be a revocation of the deed ; that the deed should operate against the Will : that is , that the Court would not deny to the deed its legal ...
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... called into the cause . The Plaintiff says , he is about to pay the debt , due by Mr. Walpole , and from his estate . Mr. Walpole cannot say , he is a stranger ; and , that it is immaterial to him , what the amount of that debt is . He ...
... called into the cause . The Plaintiff says , he is about to pay the debt , due by Mr. Walpole , and from his estate . Mr. Walpole cannot say , he is a stranger ; and , that it is immaterial to him , what the amount of that debt is . He ...
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... called : no words extending to the Corpus or capital . This could never be a disposition of leasehold estate ; of which a considerable part of this property consists . It would be perfectly absurd to say , a leasehold estate , which the ...
... called : no words extending to the Corpus or capital . This could never be a disposition of leasehold estate ; of which a considerable part of this property consists . It would be perfectly absurd to say , a leasehold estate , which the ...
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... called upon , as bound by it , to perform the contract . Upon what prineiple can the Bill be considered an agreement ? Does the party , or his authorized agent , sign the Bill ? The decree even expressly gives an option . After the ...
... called upon , as bound by it , to perform the contract . Upon what prineiple can the Bill be considered an agreement ? Does the party , or his authorized agent , sign the Bill ? The decree even expressly gives an option . After the ...
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... called the natural and legal fund should not be liable ? The doctrine of election has no application to this case . As to the settlement , it is true , Stephens v . Olive , and Lush v . Wilkinson establish , that it is not sufficient ...
... called the natural and legal fund should not be liable ? The doctrine of election has no application to this case . As to the settlement , it is true , Stephens v . Olive , and Lush v . Wilkinson establish , that it is not sufficient ...
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Page 281 - So it was early held that where a testator devised all his real and personal estate to his wife for life, and after her death to his son and...
Page 151 - ... to trustees to preserve contingent remainders ; remainder to the use of the...
Page 87 - It is ordered and adjudged by the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament assembled, that the said petition and appeal be, and is hereby, dismissed this House ; and that the said interlocutor therein complained of be, and the same is hereby, affirmed.
Page 508 - The question is, not, whether she knew what she was doing, had done, or proposed to do, but how the intention was produced : whether all that care and providence was placed round her, as against those, who advised her, which, from their situation and relation with respect to her, they were bound to exert on her behalf.
Page 298 - whether a demand connected with an illegal transaction is capable of being enforced at law, is whether the plaintiff requires the aid of the illegal transaction to establish his case. If the plaintiff cannot open his case without showing that he has broken the law, the court will not assist him, whatever his claim in justice may be upon the defendant.
Page 362 - The whole goes upon that; declarations in the family, descriptions in wills, descriptions upon monuments, descriptions in Bibles, and registry books, all are admitted upon the principle that they are the natural effusions of a party who must know the truth; and who speaks upon an occasion when his mind stands in an even position, without any temptation to exceed or fall short of the truth.
Page 475 - If the lord ousts his [copyhold] tenant he does him a wrong, for his tenant is as well inheritor to have the land to him and his heirs according to the custom of the manor as any man is to have his lands at common law.
Page 306 - B. lawfully begotten or to be begotten, equally to be divided between or among them, if more than one, share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants...
Page 313 - ... then the share or shares of him, her, or them so dying should...
Page 306 - ... to the use of such surviving and only son, and the heirs of his body; and, for default of such issue...