The Law Relating to the Property of Married Persons: With an Appendix of Statutes and NotesJ. Maclehose & sons, 1891 - 249 pages |
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... courts of equity . Equity long ago rejected equity . the doctrine of a married woman having no personality , See e.g. Balfour , Practicks , p . 93 ; Edmonstone v . Edmonstone , 1570 , M. 5997 . 1 " Madam , we will have a trick for his ...
... courts of equity . Equity long ago rejected equity . the doctrine of a married woman having no personality , See e.g. Balfour , Practicks , p . 93 ; Edmonstone v . Edmonstone , 1570 , M. 5997 . 1 " Madam , we will have a trick for his ...
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... court held that if the lady's sickness requires it , and the husband's fortune can bear it , he is obliged to promote the cure , though it be by going to the baths or other medicinal water . The celebrated Dr. Pitcairn recommended that ...
... court held that if the lady's sickness requires it , and the husband's fortune can bear it , he is obliged to promote the cure , though it be by going to the baths or other medicinal water . The celebrated Dr. Pitcairn recommended that ...
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... court unanimously decided that the wife of a journeyman tailor could not validly pledge a ring without her husband's consent.3 § 14. By the civil law a husband could not during marriage et uxorem for make a gift to his wife , nor a wife ...
... court unanimously decided that the wife of a journeyman tailor could not validly pledge a ring without her husband's consent.3 § 14. By the civil law a husband could not during marriage et uxorem for make a gift to his wife , nor a wife ...
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... Court refused to allow a tutor to take credit for sums expended by him in " political operations " for the benefit of the pupil on the ground , apparently , that the ward was a lunatic . An interesting account of this branch of the law ...
... Court refused to allow a tutor to take credit for sums expended by him in " political operations " for the benefit of the pupil on the ground , apparently , that the ward was a lunatic . An interesting account of this branch of the law ...
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... Court ruled in 1667 . Waxing bolder their successors of 1745 did violence both to " the law of nature and the rules of morality , " and decided that a husband could renounce his right of administration , and so the law still stands . 4 ...
... Court ruled in 1667 . Waxing bolder their successors of 1745 did violence both to " the law of nature and the rules of morality , " and decided that a husband could renounce his right of administration , and so the law still stands . 4 ...
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Page 202 - ... or during the minority or respective minorities only of any person or persons, who, under the uses or trusts of the deed, surrender, will, or other assurances directing such accumulations, would for the time being, if of full age, be entitled unto the rents, issues, and profits, or the interest, dividends, or annual produce, so directed to be aceumuhitetl.
Page 202 - ... and in every case where any accumulation shall be directed otherwise than as aforesaid, such direction shall be null and void, and the rents, issues, profits, and produce of such property so directed to be accumulated, shall, so long as the same shall be directed to be accumulated contrary to the provisions of this Act, go to and be received by such person or persons as would have been entitled thereto if such accumulation had not been directed.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 4 - By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband ; under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything...
Page 183 - ... if satisfied of the fact of such desertion, and that the same was without reasonable cause, and that the wife is maintaining herself by her own industry or property, may make and give to the wife an order protecting her earnings and property acquired since the commencement of such desertion...
Page 185 - ... and her husband shall not be liable in respect of any engagement or contract she may have entered into, or for any wrongful act or omission by her, or for any costs she may incur as plaintiff or defendant ; provided that where upon any such judicial separation alimony has been decreed or ordered to be paid to the wife, and the same shall not be duly paid by the husband, he shall be liable for necessaries supplied for her use...
Page 187 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the words and expressions hereinafter mentioned, which in their ordinary signification have a more confined or a different meaning, shall in this Act, except where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction, be interpreted as follows ; (that is to say), the word
Page 185 - ... intestate, go as the same would have gone if her husband had been then dead ; provided, that if any such wife should again cohabit with her husband, all such property as she may be entitled to when such cohabitation shall take place shall be held to her separate use ; subject, however, to any agreement in writing made between herself and her husband whilst separate.
Page 119 - ... during his life, or till he shall become bankrupt or shall assign, charge or incumber the said income, or shall do or suffer something whereby the same, or some part thereof, would through his act or default, or by operation or process of law, if belonging absolutely to him, become vested in or payable to some other person* or persons...
Page 61 - ... shall not be liable for the same any further or otherwise ; and any court in which a husband shall be sued for any such debt shall have power to direct any inquiry or proceedings which it may think proper for the purpose of ascertaining the nature, amount, or value of such property : Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained...