The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, 130. köideFrederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1912 |
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... doubt arises in the modern reader's mind whether the learned counsel engaged in the case knew one end of a great gun from the other ; but it must be observed that the technical evidence which the plaintiff offered to produce was not ...
... doubt arises in the modern reader's mind whether the learned counsel engaged in the case knew one end of a great gun from the other ; but it must be observed that the technical evidence which the plaintiff offered to produce was not ...
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... doubt a gift may be expressed in such terms as to include children so circumstanced , but I think the intention to include them must be very clearly shown . The intention must be plain , and for this reason , that the effect of ...
... doubt a gift may be expressed in such terms as to include children so circumstanced , but I think the intention to include them must be very clearly shown . The intention must be plain , and for this reason , that the effect of ...
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... doubt whether , under the words of the Act , he was at liberty to make any other order than to direct the reinvestment of the compensation money in purchase of land , or of something in the nature of an hereditament , has suggested that ...
... doubt whether , under the words of the Act , he was at liberty to make any other order than to direct the reinvestment of the compensation money in purchase of land , or of something in the nature of an hereditament , has suggested that ...
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... doubt , as a trustee , for misapplication of the trust property , but we submit that it does not follow that she is to be in the same position for all purposes as if she had been duly appointed . We contend , therefore , that the ...
... doubt , as a trustee , for misapplication of the trust property , but we submit that it does not follow that she is to be in the same position for all purposes as if she had been duly appointed . We contend , therefore , that the ...
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... doubt , I am not , as at present advised , prepared to assent to it . It is the duty of the trustee to observe the trust and to preserve the pro- perty for the benefit of those entitled in remainder , and I am not prepared to hold that ...
... doubt , I am not , as at present advised , prepared to assent to it . It is the duty of the trustee to observe the trust and to preserve the pro- perty for the benefit of those entitled in remainder , and I am not prepared to hold that ...
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Popular passages
Page 356 - a residence at a particular place, accompanied with positive or presumptive proof of an intention to remain there for an unlimited time.
Page 600 - ... every person running away and leaving his wife, or his or her child or children, chargeable, or whereby she or they, or any of them, shall become chargeable to any parish, township, or place...
Page 383 - The learned judge who tried the case thought the objection was fatal, and the jury were directed to find for the defendant, leave being reserved to the plaintiff' to move to enter the verdict for him, if that direction should be wrong.
Page 110 - The doctrines of this Court ought to be " as well settled, and made as uniform, almost, as those of the " common law, laying down fixed principles, but taking care " that they are to be applied according to the circumstances
Page 643 - If a servant driving a carriage, in order to effect some purpose of his own, wantonly strike the horses of another person, . . . the master will not be liable. But if, in order to perform his master's orders, he strikes but injudiciously, and in order to extricate himself from a difficulty, that will be negligent and careless conduct, for which the master will be liable...
Page 519 - ... appointment thereunder, be deemed to be entitled, at the time of his exercising such power, to the property or interest thereby appointed as a succession derived from the donor of the power ; and where any person shall have a limited power of appointment, under a disposition taking effect, upon any such death, over property, any person taking any property by the exercise of such power shall be deemed to take the same as a succession derived from the person creating the power as predecessor.
Page 110 - The question will be whether the bill has stated facts of which the court can take notice, as a case of civil property, which it is bound to protect. The injunction cannot be maintained on any principle of this sort, that if a letter has been written in the way of friendship, either the continuance or the discontinuance of the friendship affords a reason for the interference of the court.
Page 615 - The question for the opinion of the court is : Whether the plaintiffs are entitled to recover...
Page 287 - AB, in trust for him and his assigns, and to preserve the contingent remainders; with remainder, to the use of the first...
Page 302 - means the person for the time being receiving the rack rent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rack rent (as in the case of unoccupied property).