A Treatise on the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts: 17 and 18 Vict., C. 117-21 and 22 Vict., C. 96; 25 and 26 Vict., C. 45-27 and 28 Vict., C. 108. With an Appendix, Containing the Acts, General Rules, Forms, and Directions, Additional Forms, Local Acts, Tables of Fees, Solicitor's Fees and Charges. And Reports of Cases (heard Before Henry James Stonor, Esq., Chief Commissioner.)

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W. Amer, 1865 - 328 pages

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Page 254 - And it is ordered that the further consideration of this cause be adjourned, and any of the parties are to be at liberty to apply as they may be advised.
Page 254 - Issue ; and any of the Parties are to be at liberty to apply to this Court as there shall be occasion.
Page 70 - I AB do swear that I will faithfully, impartially, and honestly, according to the best of my skill and judgment...
Page 175 - Majesty might from time to time, by Order in Council, direct the said Act to come into operation in any of the said...
Page 95 - Persons respectively, if free from Disability, might have made, given, done, or been Party to, and shall otherwise represent such Person for the Purposes of this Act...
Page 90 - Equity duly registered, and also any Legacy, Portion, Lien, or other Charge, whereby a gross Sum of Money is secured to be paid on an Event or at a Time certain, and also any annual or periodical Charge which by .the Instrument creating the same, or by any other Instrument, is made repurchasable on Payment of a gross Sum of Money...
Page 177 - Legislature thereof should have presented an Address to Her Majesty, praying Her Majesty to issue such Order, and should also have made provision, to the satisfaction of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, for payment of the salaries of the local Commissioners in the said...
Page 67 - shall extend to and include Manors, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of every Tenure or Description, whatever may be the Estate or Interest therein : The Word "Stock" shall mean any Fund, Annuity, or Security transferable in Books kept by any Company or Society established or to be established, or transferable by Deed alone, or by Deed accompanied by other Formalities, and any Share or Interest therein...
Page 232 - An annuity is a thing very distinct from a rent-charge, with which it is frequently confounded: a rent-charge being a burthen imposed upon and issuing out of lands, whereas an annuity is a yearly sum chargeable only upon the person of the grantor, (p) Therefore, if a man by deed grant to another the sum of 20¿.
Page 89 - ... and the following terms shall (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter) have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them ; that is to say,

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