The English Reports: Chancery (including collateral reports) (1557-1865), Volume 33W. Green, 1903 |
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... supposed to have been entered into in October 1790. It is supposed to relate to mills , then in great want of immediate repair . The witness so states it . The bill alleges , that their customers were con- tinually deserting them on ...
... supposed to have been entered into in October 1790. It is supposed to relate to mills , then in great want of immediate repair . The witness so states it . The bill alleges , that their customers were con- tinually deserting them on ...
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... supposed , they were acting upon what passed in 1790 ; and therefore he ought to have warned them ? That is inconsistent with the whole tenor of his defence ; for he denies any promise in 1790 , upon which they ought to have acted ; and ...
... supposed , they were acting upon what passed in 1790 ; and therefore he ought to have warned them ? That is inconsistent with the whole tenor of his defence ; for he denies any promise in 1790 , upon which they ought to have acted ; and ...
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... supposed to be prepared with better advice . If Eleanor Barry should marry again , the object was to deprive her of the estate , before limited to her , and to give her only a rent - charge . From the period of a second marriage there ...
... supposed to be prepared with better advice . If Eleanor Barry should marry again , the object was to deprive her of the estate , before limited to her , and to give her only a rent - charge . From the period of a second marriage there ...
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... supposed to have expressed in Bainton v . Ward ( 2 Atk . 172. Stated from the Register's Book , 7 Ves . 503 , note ) ; which case , when examined , appears not to be an authority for it . In sup- plying the want of a surrender the Court ...
... supposed to have expressed in Bainton v . Ward ( 2 Atk . 172. Stated from the Register's Book , 7 Ves . 503 , note ) ; which case , when examined , appears not to be an authority for it . In sup- plying the want of a surrender the Court ...
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... supposed , he was not to be called upon ? Never unless persons for whom he is a trustee , will join in directing him to convey . But that does not at all appear in the transactions of this family . There is therefore every reason to ...
... supposed , he was not to be called upon ? Never unless persons for whom he is a trustee , will join in directing him to convey . But that does not at all appear in the transactions of this family . There is therefore every reason to ...
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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...