Select Cases Decided by Lord Brougham in the Court of Chancery: In the Years 1833 & 1834S. Sweet, 1835 - 521 pages |
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... called the Poor of the College or Hospital of King James ; and for their support , relief and main- tenance , they should receive , through the hands of the master of the college , or of his assignees , annually 52s . at the four usual ...
... called the Poor of the College or Hospital of King James ; and for their support , relief and main- tenance , they should receive , through the hands of the master of the college , or of his assignees , annually 52s . at the four usual ...
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... called upon by the Court to make it , if those provisions required them to do so . It therefore occurs to me that this view of the ques- tion brings us back to the one first taken , and upon which the whole turns . It is impossible , in ...
... called upon by the Court to make it , if those provisions required them to do so . It therefore occurs to me that this view of the ques- tion brings us back to the one first taken , and upon which the whole turns . It is impossible , in ...
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... called " for lives " ) , next saying , " and also the whole of my personal estate arising from the sale of part thereof , " & c . & c .; and then comes an enumeration , differing from that in the former part , of the items of which the ...
... called " for lives " ) , next saying , " and also the whole of my personal estate arising from the sale of part thereof , " & c . & c .; and then comes an enumeration , differing from that in the former part , of the items of which the ...
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... called , the commissioners are authorised to examine them " upon such inter- rogatories as they shall see occasion for . " They have thus a larger discretion in calling for evidence beyond their own inspection , and in dealing with that ...
... called , the commissioners are authorised to examine them " upon such inter- rogatories as they shall see occasion for . " They have thus a larger discretion in calling for evidence beyond their own inspection , and in dealing with that ...
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... called on him to account to him , Ratten- bury , as assignee of Snowden , for the surplus of the consideration ( £ 1800 ) , after deducting that debt . But the debt is the main part of the state- ment . The prayer is , that an account ...
... called on him to account to him , Ratten- bury , as assignee of Snowden , for the surplus of the consideration ( £ 1800 ) , after deducting that debt . But the debt is the main part of the state- ment . The prayer is , that an account ...
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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...