Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, from the Year MDCCLXXXIX to MDCCCXVII, with a Digested Index, 3. köideC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1844 |
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... decrees for securing the fund ; and the interest in the mean time has been given to the residuary legatee . Every decree says , that the Master shall compute interest from a year after the testator's death , unless any particular rate ...
... decrees for securing the fund ; and the interest in the mean time has been given to the residuary legatee . Every decree says , that the Master shall compute interest from a year after the testator's death , unless any particular rate ...
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... decree is decisive . As to the answer , that the expression " unless some other time of payment , & c . " must mean some prior time , why has not the decree then got that ? But the form never has been so , but universally as stated for ...
... decree is decisive . As to the answer , that the expression " unless some other time of payment , & c . " must mean some prior time , why has not the decree then got that ? But the form never has been so , but universally as stated for ...
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... decree , and would not submit to pay the duty . This being represented to the Lord Keeper as a great contempt and affront upon the Court , he authorized men to go and break up his iron chest , and pay the duty and costs , and leave the ...
... decree , and would not submit to pay the duty . This being represented to the Lord Keeper as a great contempt and affront upon the Court , he authorized men to go and break up his iron chest , and pay the duty and costs , and leave the ...
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... decreed ; though he had contracted to under - let contrary to those articles . ( a ) THE bill stated the following case ... decree the specific performance of a covenent for a lease , or to renew a lease . 2 Story , Eq . Jur . §722 , 728 ...
... decreed ; though he had contracted to under - let contrary to those articles . ( a ) THE bill stated the following case ... decree the specific performance of a covenent for a lease , or to renew a lease . 2 Story , Eq . Jur . §722 , 728 ...
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... decree a specific performance . Refer it to the Master to approve a proper lease containing all proper covenants according to the agreement ; and reserve costs . 1. In the principal case , the agreement to underlet was to have a future ...
... decree a specific performance . Refer it to the Master to approve a proper lease containing all proper covenants according to the agreement ; and reserve costs . 1. In the principal case , the agreement to underlet was to have a future ...
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administrators aforesaid age of twenty-one agreement annuity apply appointed assigns Attorney Bank Annuities bill was filed bond charge child circumstances claim codicil conveyance copyhold Court of Equity covenant creditor daughter death debts decease declared decree deed Defendant demurrer devised directed dividends Duke Edward Mayne Elizabeth entitled executed executors farther feoffment fund give given Henry Hervey Aston husband intention interest issue male John Mitford lands lease leasehold estates legacy legatee Lois Andrew Lord CHANCELLOR LOUGHBOROUGH Lord Hardwicke Lord Thurlow maintenance marriage Mary Master mortgage opinion paid parties payable payment personal estate Plaintiff possession premises principal purchase question real estate received remainder rents and profits residue revoked RICHARD PEPPER ARDEN rule settlement Sir John Statute Statute of Frauds survivor tenant term testator's thereof Thomas tion trust vested wife Willenhall William words
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Page 158 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 553 - Britain, to be paid to the said [clerk of records and writs], his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns. For which payment to be well and faithfully made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals.
Page 691 - ... to the use of Sir Jacob Gcrrard Doiening, for life, remainder to trustees to preserve contingent remainders, remainder to the use of his first and other sons successively...
Page 104 - I take it to be certain, also, that it is not enough for the testator to have charged his real estate with, or in any manner devoted it to the payment of his debts ; that the rule of construction is such as aims at finding, not that the real estate is charged, but that the personal estate is discharged.
Page 295 - These cases may be thus defined : where the object of a testator's bounty, or the subject of disposition (ie person or thing intended) is described in terms, which are applicable indifferently to more than one person or thing, evidence is admissible to prove which of the persons or things so described was intended by the testator.
Page 609 - Court to say, for there is no language in the will for it, that those legacies shall be payable at the end of a year from the death of the testator...
Page 445 - ... be presumed, in the absence of any intimation of a contrary intention, that the legacy was meant by the testator as a satisfaction of the debt...
Page 759 - Where a copyhold which had been surrendered to the use of a will was devised to A. and his heirs, in trust for B. and his heirs, upon the death of B.
Page 233 - The consequence would be, the assignees of the separate estate must file a bill to restrain the dividend upon all these proofs, and make the partners parties. But there is another circumstance ; it is a contrivance to throw this upon the separate estate ; for what hinders them from recovering at law this debt against the partnership, for it is money paid to one of the partners ? They have nothing to do but to bring an action against the partners. The affairs of the partnership may...
Page 40 - modern and more reasonable practice is, to give to the language its just sense, and to search for the precise meaning, and one requisite to give due and fair effect to the contract, without adopting either the rule of a rigid or of an indulgent construction.