Select Cases Decided by Lord Brougham in the Court of Chancery: In the Years 1833 & 1834S. Sweet, 1835 - 521 pages |
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Page ix
... amount of the rent - charge , it was held that the jointress was entitled to have the deficiency supplied out of the corpus of the stock . Principle by which deeds and legislative enactments are to be construed .. 139 ATTORNEY - GEN . v ...
... amount of the rent - charge , it was held that the jointress was entitled to have the deficiency supplied out of the corpus of the stock . Principle by which deeds and legislative enactments are to be construed .. 139 ATTORNEY - GEN . v ...
Page x
... amount of property ( which happened ) the same should be reduced 100l . less each than mentioned . Held , notwithstanding there was residue sufficient for the satisfaction in full , that each legacy must , under the circumstances ...
... amount of property ( which happened ) the same should be reduced 100l . less each than mentioned . Held , notwithstanding there was residue sufficient for the satisfaction in full , that each legacy must , under the circumstances ...
Page xi
... amount by codicil : - Held , that he intended an accumulation , the latter legacy not corresponding either in nature or limitation with the former . Remark on the difference between extrinsic evidence of declarations of a testator , and ...
... amount by codicil : - Held , that he intended an accumulation , the latter legacy not corresponding either in nature or limitation with the former . Remark on the difference between extrinsic evidence of declarations of a testator , and ...
Page xii
... amount of the verdict . Such writ was now discharged . The Court has in general no jurisdiction to give damages for the non - per- formance of an agreement . Re JORDEYN'S CHARITY .- ( May 31 , 1833. ) Construction of an ancient charge ...
... amount of the verdict . Such writ was now discharged . The Court has in general no jurisdiction to give damages for the non - per- formance of an agreement . Re JORDEYN'S CHARITY .- ( May 31 , 1833. ) Construction of an ancient charge ...
Page xiii
... amount to a certain sum : Held , that the interest of further capital is to be excluded in computing such net profit . Meaning of the expression " net profit " in general . KNIGHT V. GOULD .- ( December 16 , 1833. ) Page . 298 281 64 ...
... amount to a certain sum : Held , that the interest of further capital is to be excluded in computing such net profit . Meaning of the expression " net profit " in general . KNIGHT V. GOULD .- ( December 16 , 1833. ) Page . 298 281 64 ...
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Page 317 - This tends to no mischief, and is a reasonable liberty to bestow; but great detriment would arise and much confusion of rights, if parties were allowed to invent new modes of holding and enjoying real property, and to impress upon their lands and tenements a peculiar character, which should follow them into all hands, however remote.
Page 262 - ... at the date of the will, and at the death of the testator. The husband makes the will, which, it must not be altogether forgotten, it is denied relates to the stock.
Page 153 - And then it is provided, in the third section, " that all such matters to be heard and determined in the said Court of Review shall be brought on by way of petition, motion, or special case...
Page 440 - Warrant; and for so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Page 327 - It is not sufficient that a covenant is concerning the land, but, in order to make it run with the land, there must be a privity of estate between the covenanting parties.
Page 465 - ... the natural and unavoidable consequence of kindness arising out of that relation. A client, for example, may naturally entertain a kindly feeling towards an attorney or solicitor by whose assistance he has long benefited; and he may fairly and wisely desire to benefit him by a gift, or, without such an intention being the predominating motive, he may wish to give him the advantage of a sale or a lease. No law that is tolerable among...
Page 317 - Every close, every messuage, might thus be held in a different fashion, and it would be hardly possible to know what rights the acquisition of any parcel conferred, or what obligations it imposed. The right of way or of common is of a public, as well as of a simple, nature, and no one who sees the premises can be ignorant of what all the vicinage knows.
Page 71 - A. be dead at the date of the will or at the death of the testator, the issue of that child cannot take anything.
Page 96 - Liverpool, aiifr, p. 88. 101 contemplation. But the party has no general privilege or protection ; he is bound to disclose all he knows, and believes, and thinks respecting his own case...
Page 80 - Monypenny for and during the term of his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease, upon trust for the first son of the body of such first son, and the heirs male of his body ; and, in default of such issue...