An Introduction to the Final Examination: Being a Collection of All the Questions in the Papers Set by the Incorporated Law Society, and Many Similar Additional Questions, with the Answers, 1. köideStevens & sons, 1874 |
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... deed , without inserting a power of revocation and new appointment , under the mistake that such appoint- ment would be revocable without , he can not obtain . relief . Will the Court relieve against a mistake of a matter of law ? In ...
... deed , without inserting a power of revocation and new appointment , under the mistake that such appoint- ment would be revocable without , he can not obtain . relief . Will the Court relieve against a mistake of a matter of law ? In ...
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... deed , equity will rectify the mistake ; a voluntary deed can only be reformed with the consent of the donor . At law , parol evidence is inadmissible to disannul , substantially add to , subtract from , qualify or vary a written ...
... deed , equity will rectify the mistake ; a voluntary deed can only be reformed with the consent of the donor . At law , parol evidence is inadmissible to disannul , substantially add to , subtract from , qualify or vary a written ...
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... deed or contract , and state the grounds on which the Court acts in such instances . Equity will set aside a deed or contract when entered into with infants , idiots , lunatics , persons excessively drunk , or under extreme terror , & c ...
... deed or contract , and state the grounds on which the Court acts in such instances . Equity will set aside a deed or contract when entered into with infants , idiots , lunatics , persons excessively drunk , or under extreme terror , & c ...
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... deed inter vivos , upon whom , if the gift be afterwards challenged by the donor , will the burden of proof fall , and what must be shown to set the deed aside ? State the rule . The burden of proving the transaction to be fair falls on ...
... deed inter vivos , upon whom , if the gift be afterwards challenged by the donor , will the burden of proof fall , and what must be shown to set the deed aside ? State the rule . The burden of proving the transaction to be fair falls on ...
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... deed , be held by a court of equity , from that circum- stance , to be affected with notice of the contents of such deed ? The mere fact of attesting the execution of a deed will not fix the witness with notice of its contents . ( Dart ...
... deed , be held by a court of equity , from that circum- stance , to be affected with notice of the contents of such deed ? The mere fact of attesting the execution of a deed will not fix the witness with notice of its contents . ( Dart ...
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Page 152 - Act, 1873, provides that any absolute assignment by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to be by way of any charge only) of any debt or other legal chose in action of which express notice in writing shall have been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action...
Page 270 - It is a rule in law, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail; that always in such cases, 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.
Page 152 - ... debt or other legal chose in action, of which express notice in writing shall have been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action, shall be and be deemed to have been effectual in law (subject to all equities which would have been entitled to priority over the right of the assignee if the Act had not passed) to pass and transfer the legal right to such debt or chose in action from the date of...
Page 219 - Act, all rents, annuities, dividends, and other periodical payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable under an instrument in writing or otherwise), shall, like interest on money lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
Page 156 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 152 - ... if the debtor, trustee, or other person liable in respect of such debt or chose in action shall have had notice that such assignment is disputed by the assignor or any one claiming under him, or of any other opposing or conflicting claims to such debt or chose in action, he shall be entitled, if he think fit, to call upon the several persons making claim thereto to interplead concerning the same, or he may, if he think fit, pay the same into the High Court of Justice under and in conformity with...
Page 338 - 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...
Page 195 - that nothing was better established than this principle, that money directed to be employed in the purchase of land, and land directed to be sold and turned into money, are to be considered as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted...
Page 106 - Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject ; and a title to real and personal property of every description" may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject...
Page 96 - Generally in all matters not herein-before particularly mentioned, in which there is any conflict or variance between the Rules of Equity and the Rules of the Common Law with reference to the same matter, the rules of Equity shall prevail.