A Treatise on DeedsSweet and Maxwell, 1906 - 694 pages |
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... pass the estate , otherwise it operates no more than a feoffment would do without livery of seisin : " per Lord Ellenborough , C.J. , Derby Canal Co. v . Wilmot ( 1808 ) , 9 East , 360 . It is true that in Gartside v . Silkstone and ...
... pass the estate , otherwise it operates no more than a feoffment would do without livery of seisin : " per Lord Ellenborough , C.J. , Derby Canal Co. v . Wilmot ( 1808 ) , 9 East , 360 . It is true that in Gartside v . Silkstone and ...
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... pass out of the maker's control . If the delivery is complete and unconditional it is not the less so because the maker retains the deed in his possession : Xenos v . Wickham ( 1862 ) , 13 C. B. N. S. 381 ; ( 1863 ) , 14 C. B. N. S. 435 ...
... pass out of the maker's control . If the delivery is complete and unconditional it is not the less so because the maker retains the deed in his possession : Xenos v . Wickham ( 1862 ) , 13 C. B. N. S. 381 ; ( 1863 ) , 14 C. B. N. S. 435 ...
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... passes nothing , the subsequent filling up of a blank by supplying the whole description will not pass the property ; so that the distinction seems to be between filling up an immaterial blank , and supplying a descrip- tion which would ...
... passes nothing , the subsequent filling up of a blank by supplying the whole description will not pass the property ; so that the distinction seems to be between filling up an immaterial blank , and supplying a descrip- tion which would ...
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... pass by deed indented and enrolled , it need not have the precise words of bargain and sale , but words equipollent or which do tantamount , are sufficient ( 2nd Inst . 672 ) ; as if a man covenants in consideration of money to stand ...
... pass by deed indented and enrolled , it need not have the precise words of bargain and sale , but words equipollent or which do tantamount , are sufficient ( 2nd Inst . 672 ) ; as if a man covenants in consideration of money to stand ...
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... pass to A.'s executors by the words in the habendum : Doe d . Timmis v . Steele ( 1843 ) , 4 Q. B. 663 . 81 " It being then impossible to affix a meaning to the words , " Sterling lawful money ' sterling lawful money of Ireland ...
... pass to A.'s executors by the words in the habendum : Doe d . Timmis v . Steele ( 1843 ) , 4 Q. B. 663 . 81 " It being then impossible to affix a meaning to the words , " Sterling lawful money ' sterling lawful money of Ireland ...
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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...