The Equity Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery Together with Reports of Cases Carried by Appeal from that Court to the House of Lords, Also Reports of Cases Carried by Appeal from Colonial Courts of Equity to the Privy Council, 1. köideA. & G.A. Spottiswoode, 1854 |
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... question having been raised by the appellants in the Court below , the Court of Appeal could not entertain that question . The stat . 5 Geo . 2. c . 7. s . 4. makes real estate in the West Indies legal assets for the payment of debts ...
... question having been raised by the appellants in the Court below , the Court of Appeal could not entertain that question . The stat . 5 Geo . 2. c . 7. s . 4. makes real estate in the West Indies legal assets for the payment of debts ...
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... question of equitable assets , so far as the Act of the 5th Geo . 2. c . 7 . might bear upon the question ; and if it did not , whether the testator could change , by the devise in his will , the legal dis- tribution of his , the ...
... question of equitable assets , so far as the Act of the 5th Geo . 2. c . 7 . might bear upon the question ; and if it did not , whether the testator could change , by the devise in his will , the legal dis- tribution of his , the ...
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... question of equitable assets , a question dividing itself into two branches : one , whether the effect of the stat . of Geo . 2. was to render the real estates equally divisible among all the creditors of whatever rank ? And , if it ...
... question of equitable assets , a question dividing itself into two branches : one , whether the effect of the stat . of Geo . 2. was to render the real estates equally divisible among all the creditors of whatever rank ? And , if it ...
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... question , it ought to be then decided . But if the Court is not in a position to do so , then it will at the original hearing direct inquiries to determine who and what are the proper facts and parties . And if the Court does do so ...
... question , it ought to be then decided . But if the Court is not in a position to do so , then it will at the original hearing direct inquiries to determine who and what are the proper facts and parties . And if the Court does do so ...
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... question is as to the meaning of the words " heirs of the body , " about which it is not contested that it is a substitutionary limitation , the daughters taking in the first instance , and in case of their not surviving then the ...
... question is as to the meaning of the words " heirs of the body , " about which it is not contested that it is a substitutionary limitation , the daughters taking in the first instance , and in case of their not surviving then the ...
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act of Parliament aforesaid amount annuity appeared appellant applied Argument assigns bankrupt Beav bequest bill Bishop of Winchester CHANCELLOR charge claim clause contract costs Court Court of Equity creditors daughters death debts decease declared decree deed default defendant devise directed effect entitled EVANS Ewelme execution executors exercise filed fund George Yeo gift heirs held hospital husband indenture intention interest issue John John Key joint Judgment land lease leasehold estate legacies Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon LORD JUSTICE Lords JJ Lordship M'Kellar male manor marriage master ment mortgage opinion paid parties partner payment personal estate plaintiff power of appointment power of revocation promissory note purchase question Railway Company real estate referred rents residuary residue respect settlement shares Solicitors Statement statute surviving tenant testator's thereof tion trust twenty-one vendor vested VICE-CHANCELLOR Vict wife words
Popular passages
Page 76 - Any contract which if made between private persons would be by law required to be in writing, and signed by the parties to be charged therewith, may be made on behalf of the company in writing signed by any person acting under the express or implied authority of the company, and such contract may in the same manner be varied or discharged.
Page 471 - I will that they, my said trustees, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs, executors, and administrators of such survivor...
Page 504 - The bill prayed that an account might be taken of what was due to the Plaintiff; that the 1250/.
Page 292 - ... in the presence of, and attested by, two or more credible witnesses...
Page 331 - No suit in the said Court shall be open to objection on the ground that a merely declaratory decree or order is sought thereby, and it shall be lawful for the Court to make binding declarations of right without granting consequential relief.
Page 250 - Bill authorising the taking of such lands ; but all such monies shall be deemed to have been contracted to be paid for and on account of the several parties interested in such lands, as well in possession as in remainder, reversion, or expectancy : Provided always, that it shall be in the discretion of the Court of Chancery [in England or the...
Page 243 - Ring, or the survivor of them, or the executors or administrators of such survivor, should...
Page 420 - Bache to hold to them for and during their natural lives, and the life of the longest liver of them, and from and after the decease of the survivor of them...
Page 546 - Plaintiff in the hereditaments and premises, together with interest thereon at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, from the time of entering upon the hereditaments and premises by the.
Page 284 - ... or transferring any such bill of exchange or promissory note, be void, nor shall the liability of any party to any such bill of exchange or promissory note, nor the liability of any person borrowing any sum of money as aforesaid, be affected by reason of any statute or law in force for the prevention of usury...