Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to a Statute Law of the State, 61. köideJ. Spooner, 1889 |
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... decree of the Probate Court , like any other will , before it could be set up as a bar to the one in contest was erroneous . In all cases where such a doctrine is declared , the revocatory instrument had been offered for probate , and ...
... decree of the Probate Court , like any other will , before it could be set up as a bar to the one in contest was erroneous . In all cases where such a doctrine is declared , the revocatory instrument had been offered for probate , and ...
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... decree was made . bill as qualified and supplemented by the answer , not traversed , it appears that on the 6th day of February , 1880 , Lora Bowdish , being possessed of a farm situate in Weybridge , of 50 acres with a dwelling house ...
... decree was made . bill as qualified and supplemented by the answer , not traversed , it appears that on the 6th day of February , 1880 , Lora Bowdish , being possessed of a farm situate in Weybridge , of 50 acres with a dwelling house ...
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... decreed , upon a clause in the will providing that after the decease of the testatrix , the trustees should convey the residue of the estate " to and among such person or persons , and in such proportions and at such time or times , and ...
... decreed , upon a clause in the will providing that after the decease of the testatrix , the trustees should convey the residue of the estate " to and among such person or persons , and in such proportions and at such time or times , and ...
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... decreed to be assets liable to the plaintiff's debts . " It is in this clumsily reported case that the expression " having power to dispose , " first appears . There is the beginning of the growth of the doctrine that a general power to ...
... decreed to be assets liable to the plaintiff's debts . " It is in this clumsily reported case that the expression " having power to dispose , " first appears . There is the beginning of the growth of the doctrine that a general power to ...
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... decree dismissing the bill is affirmed , and eause remanded . NOTE . Since writing the foregoing opinion , I have found an old book entitled : " A Treatise of the Administration of Assets in Equity , " by Holker Megginson , Esq . , of ...
... decree dismissing the bill is affirmed , and eause remanded . NOTE . Since writing the foregoing opinion , I have found an old book entitled : " A Treatise of the Administration of Assets in Equity , " by Holker Megginson , Esq . , of ...
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