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, 115. köideFrederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1910 |
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... intention . When a man who seems to know what he is about uses . technical language , you are more likely to frustrate than to assist the intention by discarding technical understanding and trying to construe the words " with a naked ...
... intention . When a man who seems to know what he is about uses . technical language , you are more likely to frustrate than to assist the intention by discarding technical understanding and trying to construe the words " with a naked ...
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... intention of the testator to give to his son and to his son's children a vested interest in the fund which he set apart for the widow's annuity . This is a clear gift to the children , and cannot be cut down , except by an equally clear ...
... intention of the testator to give to his son and to his son's children a vested interest in the fund which he set apart for the widow's annuity . This is a clear gift to the children , and cannot be cut down , except by an equally clear ...
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... intention of the testator on the happening of an event of a collateral nature . There is nothing to show his intention except the words he has used , and those words make the gift over to depend on George dying before his mother , which ...
... intention of the testator on the happening of an event of a collateral nature . There is nothing to show his intention except the words he has used , and those words make the gift over to depend on George dying before his mother , which ...
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... intention , and there is , therefore , great danger of the mind being strongly and improperly influenced by this consideration . But disclaiming all right to act upon any con- jectural interpretation , I have arrived at a satisfactory ...
... intention , and there is , therefore , great danger of the mind being strongly and improperly influenced by this consideration . But disclaiming all right to act upon any con- jectural interpretation , I have arrived at a satisfactory ...
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... intention , you must necessarily refer to the period of making the will . If the appellants are right in their construction of the will , the son of the testator's son , the principal object of his regard , would derive scarcely any ...
... intention , you must necessarily refer to the period of making the will . If the appellants are right in their construction of the will , the son of the testator's son , the principal object of his regard , would derive scarcely any ...
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Page 611 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed are warranted free from average, unless general, or the ship be stranded — sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides and skins are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent, and all other goods, also the ship and freight, are warranted free from average, under three pounds per cent unless general, or the ship be stranded.
Page 591 - O'Brien and the several exhibits therein referred to it is ordered that Monday the 23rd day of April instant be given to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs to show cause why a writ of Habeas Corpus should not issue directed to him to have the body of Art O'Brien immediately before this Court at the Royal Courts of Justice London to undergo and receive...
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Page 611 - Act, either immediately or after any interval, either certainly or contingently, and either originally or by way of substitutive limitation...
Page 439 - The learned judge directed a verdict to be entered for the defendant, reserving leave to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for him...
Page 611 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 519 - The right of a plaintiff in equity to the benefit of the defendant's oath, is limited to a discovery of such material facts as relate to the plaintiff's case- and does not extend to a discovery of the manner in which the defendant's case is to be established, or to evidence which relates exclusively to his case.
Page 508 - Bench for a writ of habeas corpus, to bring up the body of William Baker, but that Court refused to grant the application.
Page 83 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 652 - The learned judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff, reserving leave to the defendant to move to enter a verdict for him.