Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Probate: And in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. [1858-1865], 1. köideButterworths, 1860 - 160 pages |
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21 Vict Addams adultery affidavit alimony alleged annexed appeared application appointed April attesting witnesses Captain cause Chancery circumstances cited co-respondent codicil cohabitation condonation Consistory Court costs counsel Court of Chancery Court of Probate CRESSWELL cruelty CURTIS custody Deane death deceased deceased's December decree defendant desertion died dissolution of marriage Divorce Act Dolphin domicil Ecclesiastical Courts England entitled EVANS evidence executors executrix facts father February February 15 grant HAYWARD husband intention January January 28 JUDGE ORDINARY judicial separation July June June 21 jurisdiction jury Keats letters of administration living Lord March March 19 married Mary motion moved the Court opinion paper parties pendente lite personal estate petition for dissolution petitioner Phillimore plaintiff plea pleaded prayed Prerogative Court present probate proceedings proctor proved question reason Registrar residence respondent revoke ROBINSON Spinks suit testator testatrix tion trust widow wife wife's William
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Page 531 - That no will or codicil, or any part thereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same...
Page 421 - And be it further enacted, that no will shall be revoked by any presumption of an intention on the ground of an alteration in circumstances.
Page 114 - In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament...
Page 563 - The Court, after a final decree of nullity of marriage or " dissolution of marriage, may inquire into the existence of " contemplated or post-nuptial settlements made on the parties " whose marriage is the subject of the decree, and may make " such orders with reference to the application of the whole " or a portion of the property settled, either for the benefit of " the children of the marriage, or of their respective parents, " as to the Court shall seem fit.
Page 171 - What merely wounds the mental feelings is in few cases to be admitted, where they are not accompanied with bodily injury, either actual or menaced. Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil attention and accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty...
Page 522 - That where any person being a child or other issue of the testator to whom any real or personal estate shall be devised or bequeathed for any estate or interest not determinable at or before the death of such person, shall die in the lifetime of the testator leaving issue, and any such issue of such person shall be living at the time of the death of the testator, such devise or bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of...
Page 294 - ... standing in the name of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, or the Accountant-General of the Court of Exchequer, or in, to...
Page 639 - ... to be by her signed and published in the presence of, and attested by...
Page 191 - Court may, from Time to Time, before making its final Decree, make such Interim Orders, and may make such Provision in the final Decree, as it may deem just and 25 proper with respect to the Custody, Maintenance, and Education of the Children...
Page 437 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter 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...