Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: By the Vice-chancellor Sir John Stuart. [1858-1865], Volume 1

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Page 194 - Dec. 1833, no action or suit or other proceeding shall be brought to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, at law or in equity, or any legacy, but within twenty years next after a present right to receive the same shall have accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for or release of the same...
Page 93 - when any person shall have been adjudged a bankrupt, all his personal estate and effects, present and future, wheresoever the same may be found or known, and all property which he may purchase, or which may revert, descend, be devised or bequeathed (/), or come to him...
Page 94 - ... assignment, neither the bankrupt nor any person claiming through or under him shall have power to recover the same, nor to make any release or discharge thereof...
Page 107 - Treasury, at the time the mortgage was offered for insurance, but not to exceed 3 per centum per annum, payable semiannually on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July...
Page 23 - Princess; and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 133 - Indiana do make and publish this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.
Page 380 - And it is hereby agreed and declared that if there shall be no child of the said intended marriage, who being a son shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter shall attain that age or marry...
Page 316 - ... if the court should be of opinion that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover.
Page 132 - ... and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Page 198 - If I give to A. and his heirs all my real estate, charged with my debts, that is a devise to him for a particular purpose, but not for that purpose only. If the devise is upon trust to pay my debts, that is a devise for a particular purpose, and nothing more; and the effect of those two modes admits just this difference.

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