The Honours Examination Digest: Comprising All the Questions in Convenancing, Equity, Common Law, Bankruptcy, Probate, Divorce, Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Law and Practice Asked at the Solicitors' Honours Examinations Since Their Establishment to the Present Time, with All the Answers TheretoStevens and Sons, 1883 - 409 pages |
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... LEASES . 86-91 LEGACIES 91-98 LIBEL 98-99 99-101 101-104 104 LIENS LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS MAINTENANCE . MASTER AND SERVANT MAXIMS • MERCANTILE LAW MISREPRESENTATION . MORTGAGES NEGLIGENCE NEIGHBOURING PROPRIETORS NOTICE NUISANCES 105 ...
... LEASES . 86-91 LEGACIES 91-98 LIBEL 98-99 99-101 101-104 104 LIENS LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS MAINTENANCE . MASTER AND SERVANT MAXIMS • MERCANTILE LAW MISREPRESENTATION . MORTGAGES NEGLIGENCE NEIGHBOURING PROPRIETORS NOTICE NUISANCES 105 ...
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... leases of two houses to B. , with options to purchase . A. dies intestate , as to real estate , except as to one house , which he speci- fically devises to C. , by a will made subsequently to the leases . After A's death , B. exercises ...
... leases of two houses to B. , with options to purchase . A. dies intestate , as to real estate , except as to one house , which he speci- fically devises to C. , by a will made subsequently to the leases . After A's death , B. exercises ...
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... leases where an option is given to the lessee only thereunder to declare an option to purchase the freehold reversion at any fixed or unlimited time as mentioned in the lease . The authorities have long ago decided that in a case like ...
... leases where an option is given to the lessee only thereunder to declare an option to purchase the freehold reversion at any fixed or unlimited time as mentioned in the lease . The authorities have long ago decided that in a case like ...
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... lease . Has such accept- ance of rent any and what effect upon any claim which the landlord may have for breach of any of the covenants contained in such expired lease ? Give the grounds of your answer . The general rule is that where ...
... lease . Has such accept- ance of rent any and what effect upon any claim which the landlord may have for breach of any of the covenants contained in such expired lease ? Give the grounds of your answer . The general rule is that where ...
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... lease after its expiration , and a claim against the tenant for damages for breach of covenant contained in the expired lease . It seems to us , in the above case , in the absence of any direct authority on the point , that the land ...
... lease after its expiration , and a claim against the tenant for damages for breach of covenant contained in the expired lease . It seems to us , in the above case , in the absence of any direct authority on the point , that the land ...
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Page 356 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 243 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 176 - A mandamus or an injunction may be granted or a receiver appointed by an interlocutory order of the Court in all cases in which it shall appear to the Court to be just or convenient that such order should be made...
Page 328 - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will...
Page 265 - Our sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King.
Page 247 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 35 - ... the same rules shall prevail and be observed as to the respective rights of secured and unsecured creditors, and as to debts and liabilities provable, and as to the valuation of annuities and future and contingent liabilities respectively, as may be in force for the time being under the law of bankruptcy with respect to the estates of persons adjudged bankrupt...
Page 167 - Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
Page 134 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 31 - Every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued and to be held subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash...