The English Reports: Chancery (including collateral reports) (1557-1865), Volume 33W. Green, 1903 |
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... term of years . A subsequent remainder therefore to the heirs of the body of the tenant for life held a legal estate ... term of his natural life ; and from and after his decease to the use and behoof of Eleanor his wife , for and during ...
... term of years . A subsequent remainder therefore to the heirs of the body of the tenant for life held a legal estate ... term of his natural life ; and from and after his decease to the use and behoof of Eleanor his wife , for and during ...
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... Term Rep . 433 ) , a case upon a Will , have a direct application . The construction is not natural , and the intention could not be , that the trustees should take the absolute fee in the first instance ; a term of 100 years by express ...
... Term Rep . 433 ) , a case upon a Will , have a direct application . The construction is not natural , and the intention could not be , that the trustees should take the absolute fee in the first instance ; a term of 100 years by express ...
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... Term . Rep . 433. See Wykham v . Wykham , 18 Ves . 395 ) is very much in point ; where , though the limitation to the trustees was not expressed to be confined , yet it was construed to operate only for the lives of the several tenants ...
... Term . Rep . 433. See Wykham v . Wykham , 18 Ves . 395 ) is very much in point ; where , though the limitation to the trustees was not expressed to be confined , yet it was construed to operate only for the lives of the several tenants ...
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... terms , to Elizabeth Keightley and two other persons for the term of their natural lives , in equal shares ; and at the decease of either of them to be equally divided between all their children . This residuary estate consisted ...
... terms , to Elizabeth Keightley and two other persons for the term of their natural lives , in equal shares ; and at the decease of either of them to be equally divided between all their children . This residuary estate consisted ...
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... term continue in trustees , upon trust to pay the rents and profits to the Cestui que trust until the age of 21 , and to assign to him at that period ; with a limitation over in the event of his death under that age ; by which provision ...
... term continue in trustees , upon trust to pay the rents and profits to the Cestui que trust until the age of 21 , and to assign to him at that period ; with a limitation over in the event of his death under that age ; by which provision ...
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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...