Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeal [1876-1900].Rowsell & Hutchison, 1884 |
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... costs to be paid out of the resi- duary estate ; although it was shewn that though notice had been given to the testator , he was wholly unprepared to make the will when he came to the act ; that there had not been any previous ...
... costs to be paid out of the resi- duary estate ; although it was shewn that though notice had been given to the testator , he was wholly unprepared to make the will when he came to the act ; that there had not been any previous ...
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... costs is right . The real contest was , the presence or absence of testamentary capacity ; and there are no ... costs had been increased by any contest upon that point , it might have been proper that such increased costs should have ...
... costs is right . The real contest was , the presence or absence of testamentary capacity ; and there are no ... costs had been increased by any contest upon that point , it might have been proper that such increased costs should have ...
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... costs , it is not improbable that he I would have arrived at a different conclusion from that come to by the jury . One of the witnesses referred to by the learned Judge as testifying to the competency of the testator was John A ...
... costs , it is not improbable that he I would have arrived at a different conclusion from that come to by the jury . One of the witnesses referred to by the learned Judge as testifying to the competency of the testator was John A ...
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... costs . HAGARTY , C. J. - I agree in the conclusions arrived at by the learned Chief Justice . After directing that the stock shall be paid up in such instalments as the directors shall appoint , it is provided that " no instalment ...
... costs . HAGARTY , C. J. - I agree in the conclusions arrived at by the learned Chief Justice . After directing that the stock shall be paid up in such instalments as the directors shall appoint , it is provided that " no instalment ...
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... costs . PATTERSON , J.A. - This is an action to recover the amount of several calls upon stock held by the defendant . The dates of the resolutions making the calls , and the dates at which the calls were by the resolution made payable ...
... costs . PATTERSON , J.A. - This is an action to recover the amount of several calls upon stock held by the defendant . The dates of the resolutions making the calls , and the dates at which the calls were by the resolution made payable ...
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Page 260 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 354 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 262 - ... it ceases to have any application; it cannot be applied to other circumstances which could not have been in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made.
Page 68 - The directors may from time to time make such calls of money upon the respective shareholders, in respect of the amount of capital respectively subscribed or owing by them as they deem necessary, and thirty days...
Page 574 - ... unable to pay his debts as they become due from his own money in favour of any creditor, or any person in trust for any creditor, with a view of giving such creditor a preference over the other creditors...
Page 558 - That, if at the time at which the right of any person to make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent...
Page 134 - Judges, from the earliest times, were always inclined to decide that estates devised were vested ; and it has long been an established rule, for the guidance of the Courts of Westminster in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except estates, in the devise of which a condition, precedent to the vesting, is so clearly expressed, that the Courts cannot treat them as vested, without deciding in direct opposition to the terms of the will.
Page 162 - Lordship there said, that, as to this point, "the rule is, that if the bill contains charges, putting facts in issue that are material, the plaintiff is entitled to the relief which those facts will sustain, under the general prayer; but ho cannot desert specific relief prayed, and under the general prayer ask specific relief of another description, unless the facts and circumstances charged by the bill will, consistently with the rules of the Court, maintain that relief.
Page 3 - Probate, where the onus pro1*38. bandi most undoubtedly lies upon the party propounding the Will, if the conscience of the Judge, upon a careful and accurate consideration of all the evidence on both sides, is not judicially satisfied, that the paper in question does contain the last Will and Testament of the deceased, it is bound to pronounce its opinion that the instrument is not entitled to probate.
Page 111 - ... may be limited in that behalf, the directors in their discretion by vote to that effect reciting the facts and duly recorded in their minutes may summarily declare forfeited any shares whereon such payment is not made...