The English Reports: Chancery (including collateral reports) (1557-1865), Volume 33W. Green, 1903 |
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... proved by one witness the Answer containing a positive denial of the agreement ; which denial was also confirmed by circumstances . No relief upon general equity from expenditure under the observation of the landlord by a tenant , but ...
... proved by one witness the Answer containing a positive denial of the agreement ; which denial was also confirmed by circumstances . No relief upon general equity from expenditure under the observation of the landlord by a tenant , but ...
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... proved , there would be an end of that of 1790 ; if it was ever so distinctly and substantially made out ; for there is a total departure from it another arrangement , upon quite a different footing . I cannot attach to the new ...
... proved , there would be an end of that of 1790 ; if it was ever so distinctly and substantially made out ; for there is a total departure from it another arrangement , upon quite a different footing . I cannot attach to the new ...
Page 33
... proved to have taken place in 1794. If the improvements cannot be connected with the agreement of 1790 , there is an end of the Plaintiffs ' case ; as far as they seek to be quieted in the possession during the Defendant's life ; for ...
... proved to have taken place in 1794. If the improvements cannot be connected with the agreement of 1790 , there is an end of the Plaintiffs ' case ; as far as they seek to be quieted in the possession during the Defendant's life ; for ...
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... proving , that there were debts at that time : otherwise the bill must be dismissed ; for it is not the habit of the Court to direct an inquiry , in order to furnish a case for the Plaintiff . He must come with a case proved . If any ...
... proving , that there were debts at that time : otherwise the bill must be dismissed ; for it is not the habit of the Court to direct an inquiry , in order to furnish a case for the Plaintiff . He must come with a case proved . If any ...
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... proved the Will in India . All the other executors except Hoare and Griffiths died . Hoare , having returned to England , in 1799 , alone proved the Will in [ 300 ] England ; and died on the 26th of July 1802. After his death Griffiths ...
... proved the Will in India . All the other executors except Hoare and Griffiths died . Hoare , having returned to England , in 1799 , alone proved the Will in [ 300 ] England ; and died on the 26th of July 1802. After his death Griffiths ...
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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...