The English Reports: Chancery (including collateral reports) (1557-1865), Volume 33W. Green, 1903 |
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... dated the 5th of June 1801 , the testator gave several pecuniary and specific legacies ; and among them to his wife her trinkets , linen , and other articles , and £ 500 for furnishing a house . He made other codicils , principally ...
... dated the 5th of June 1801 , the testator gave several pecuniary and specific legacies ; and among them to his wife her trinkets , linen , and other articles , and £ 500 for furnishing a house . He made other codicils , principally ...
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... dated the 13th of January 1798 , executed to pass real estates , devised all his manors and heredita- ments in Westmoreland and Cumberland , with some exceptions , to the use of Lord Lowther and his first and other sons , in strict ...
... dated the 13th of January 1798 , executed to pass real estates , devised all his manors and heredita- ments in Westmoreland and Cumberland , with some exceptions , to the use of Lord Lowther and his first and other sons , in strict ...
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... dated the 29th of March 1802 , made the following bequests : 66 44 I give unto my servant William Wilde , in case he shall be in my service at the time of my decease , the sum of £ 500 and the sum of £ 20 for mourning and also all my ...
... dated the 29th of March 1802 , made the following bequests : 66 44 I give unto my servant William Wilde , in case he shall be in my service at the time of my decease , the sum of £ 500 and the sum of £ 20 for mourning and also all my ...
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... dated the 1st of May 1789 , John Brooke assigned leasehold estates , by way of mortgage , in consideration of £ 3000 ... dated the 22d of October 1790 . By indentures , dated the 1st of March 1791 , 50 12 VES . JUN . 130 . BARNETT v . WESTON.
... dated the 1st of May 1789 , John Brooke assigned leasehold estates , by way of mortgage , in consideration of £ 3000 ... dated the 22d of October 1790 . By indentures , dated the 1st of March 1791 , 50 12 VES . JUN . 130 . BARNETT v . WESTON.
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... dated the 28th of January 1792 , the same premises were made a collateral security , subject to the said several incumbrances , for the sum of £ 4000 , lent by William Barnett , the brother of Samuel , to Brooke upon a mortgage of a ...
... dated the 28th of January 1792 , the same premises were made a collateral security , subject to the said several incumbrances , for the sum of £ 4000 , lent by William Barnett , the brother of Samuel , to Brooke upon a mortgage of a ...
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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...