The English Reports: Chancery (including collateral reports) (1557-1865), Volume 33W. Green, 1903 |
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... settlement £ 5000 upon trust to be laid out in the funds for her separate use for life , and after her death for her children ; and he directed his trustees and executors to pay his daughter for her separate use interest for that sum ...
... settlement £ 5000 upon trust to be laid out in the funds for her separate use for life , and after her death for her children ; and he directed his trustees and executors to pay his daughter for her separate use interest for that sum ...
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... settlement was prepar- ing he informed the deponent , that he considered £ 10,000 as a large portion ; but it was to be in lieu of that and every other claim of his daughter under the settlement , or deed of appointment , or otherwise ...
... settlement was prepar- ing he informed the deponent , that he considered £ 10,000 as a large portion ; but it was to be in lieu of that and every other claim of his daughter under the settlement , or deed of appointment , or otherwise ...
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... settlement . Whether Mary remains single or marries , I shall allow " her the interest of £ 2000 at 4 per cent . if the latter I may bind myself to do it and pay the principal at my decease to her and her heirs . " Another letter ...
... settlement . Whether Mary remains single or marries , I shall allow " her the interest of £ 2000 at 4 per cent . if the latter I may bind myself to do it and pay the principal at my decease to her and her heirs . " Another letter ...
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... settlement . " It would be surprising afterwards to find , that in this very letter he had become bound to make a settlement ; or to give a promise , which would be as binding upon him . Upon the subsequent passage of that letter it is ...
... settlement . " It would be surprising afterwards to find , that in this very letter he had become bound to make a settlement ; or to give a promise , which would be as binding upon him . Upon the subsequent passage of that letter it is ...
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... settlement was void ; for though a parol promise before marriage was proved , and a settlement made after the mar- [ 75 ] -riage , yet it was not made with such a correspondence to the parol promise , as to appear to have been made in ...
... settlement was void ; for though a parol promise before marriage was proved , and a settlement made after the mar- [ 75 ] -riage , yet it was not made with such a correspondence to the parol promise , as to appear to have been made in ...
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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...