A Treatise on DeedsSweet and Maxwell, 1906 - 694 pages |
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... male of their several bodies ; with divers remainders over . Held , the first son of the husband by the wife born during his life took an estate tail Galley v . Barrington ( 1824 ) , 2 Bing . 387 . In a marriage settlement lands were ...
... male of their several bodies ; with divers remainders over . Held , the first son of the husband by the wife born during his life took an estate tail Galley v . Barrington ( 1824 ) , 2 Bing . 387 . In a marriage settlement lands were ...
Page 90
... male of his body being always preferred to take place before the younger . . . with full liberty to the said A. " to make such reasonable provision as he should think fit for such younger child or children , " and in case the said A ...
... male of his body being always preferred to take place before the younger . . . with full liberty to the said A. " to make such reasonable provision as he should think fit for such younger child or children , " and in case the said A ...
Page 292
... male in the premises , habendum to him and the heirs male of his body , this is only an estate tail , notwithstanding the premises were a fee simple : " Throgmorton v . Tracey ( 1555 ) , Dyer , 124 a at p . 126 b , pl . 50 . Grant of a ...
... male in the premises , habendum to him and the heirs male of his body , this is only an estate tail , notwithstanding the premises were a fee simple : " Throgmorton v . Tracey ( 1555 ) , Dyer , 124 a at p . 126 b , pl . 50 . Grant of a ...
Page 294
... male of her body . Held , that the settlement operated as a grant by A. of the reversion , and that D.'s estate was a quasi tail therein Lynch v . Nelson ( 1870 ) , Ir . R. 5 Eq . 192 . Even if the habendum is void , it may be looked at ...
... male of her body . Held , that the settlement operated as a grant by A. of the reversion , and that D.'s estate was a quasi tail therein Lynch v . Nelson ( 1870 ) , Ir . R. 5 Eq . 192 . Even if the habendum is void , it may be looked at ...
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... male of his body . Held , that " although the habendum of a future freehold be void , yet the grant in the premises being expressly to him and his heirs , the indenture shall enure upon the premises and shall pass the estate to the ...
... male of his body . Held , that " although the habendum of a future freehold be void , yet the grant in the premises being expressly to him and his heirs , the indenture shall enure upon the premises and shall pass the estate to the ...
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Page 535 - Where a covenant goes only to part of the consideration on both sides, and a breach of such covenant may be paid for in damages, it is an independent covenant; and an action may be maintained for a breach of the covenant on the part of the defendant, without averring performance in the declaration.
Page 131 - It has long been settled, that, in commercial transactions, extrinsic evidence of custom and usage is admissible to annex incidents to written contracts, in matters with respect to which they are silent. The same rule has also been applied to contracts in other transactions of life, in which known usages have been established and prevailed ; and this has been done upon...
Page 524 - If a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money, or other act, is to be performed ; an action may be brought for the money, or for not doing such other act before performance, for it appears that the party relied upon his remedy, and did not intend to make the performance a condition precedent. And so it is where no time is fixed for performance of that, which is...
Page 54 - The cases I think go further to this extent, that if the settlement is intended to be effectuated by one of the modes to which I have referred, the court will not give effect to it by applying another of those modes.
Page 57 - ... as by the known usage of trade, or the like, acquired a peculiar sense, distinct from the popular sense of the same words...
Page 27 - ... inasmuch as the written words are the immediate language and terms selected by the parties themselves for the expression of their meaning, and the printed words are a general formula adapted equally to their case and that of all other contracting parties upon- similar occasions and subjects."— Robertson v.
Page 73 - Where there is nothing in the context of a will from which it is apparent that a testator has used the words in which he has expressed himself in any other than their strict and primary sense...
Page 74 - ... to be interested under the will, and to the property which is claimed as the subject of disposition, and to the circumstances of the testator and of his family and affairs; for the purpose of enabling the court to identify the person or thing intended by the testator...
Page 535 - The distinction is very clear : where mutual covenants go to the whole of the consideration on both sides, they are mutual conditions, the one precedent to the other ; but where they go only to a part, where a breach may be paid for in damages, there the defendant has a remedy on his covenant, and shall not plead it as a condition precedent.
Page 98 - Ambiguitas patens is never holpen by averment, and the reason is, because the law will not couple and mingle matter of specialty, which is of the higher account, with matter of averment, which is of inferior account in law...