Select Cases Decided by Lord Brougham in the Court of Chancery: In the Years 1833 & 1834S. Sweet, 1835 - 521 pages |
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... received , entries made , papers possessed , or communications imparted , in character of solicitor , not to be enforced in equity nor at law . .. GUY v . SHARP .- ( July 6 , 1833. ) : - A testator gave a legacy by will , and another of ...
... received , entries made , papers possessed , or communications imparted , in character of solicitor , not to be enforced in equity nor at law . .. GUY v . SHARP .- ( July 6 , 1833. ) : - A testator gave a legacy by will , and another of ...
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... received monies in that character , although sometimes treated as a mere debtor to the estate of the original testator or intestate , is properly made a defendant , together with the continuing executor or new administra- tor of such ...
... received monies in that character , although sometimes treated as a mere debtor to the estate of the original testator or intestate , is properly made a defendant , together with the continuing executor or new administra- tor of such ...
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... received in respect of her annuity was not applicable to make up the deficiency in the other annuities , but went to parties entitled in remainder . .. SHERRATT . SHERRATT .- ( April 15 , 1833. ) The words " from and after payment of my ...
... received in respect of her annuity was not applicable to make up the deficiency in the other annuities , but went to parties entitled in remainder . .. SHERRATT . SHERRATT .- ( April 15 , 1833. ) The words " from and after payment of my ...
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... received , as he swears , from the officer who endeavoured to make the caption , and in which the writer relates a number of par- ticulars , the whole of which , taken together , B 2 WRIGHT V. GREEN . 3 facts, can only be brought ...
... received , as he swears , from the officer who endeavoured to make the caption , and in which the writer relates a number of par- ticulars , the whole of which , taken together , B 2 WRIGHT V. GREEN . 3 facts, can only be brought ...
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... in which those shares were to be received by them . The circumstance which raised this argument is not to be found in the present case . For here , to one only of the objects , the alms - bodies 10 CASES IN CHANCERY .
... in which those shares were to be received by them . The circumstance which raised this argument is not to be found in the present case . For here , to one only of the objects , the alms - bodies 10 CASES IN CHANCERY .
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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...