Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Brougham and Sir John Leach, Master of the Rolls, Volume 2Saunders and Benning, 1835 - Equity |
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... fund to the nieces ; and , in case of their death , that is , their death under twenty - one , -for their death , at some period or other , was not a contingency , but a certainty , and for which therefore a testator would not naturally ...
... fund to the nieces ; and , in case of their death , that is , their death under twenty - one , -for their death , at some period or other , was not a contingency , but a certainty , and for which therefore a testator would not naturally ...
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... fund , or to some other time ; and although upon this subject the series of cases is much less unbroken , and there are some not to be reconciled with others , yet it may be observed that the leaning towards adopting a definite period ...
... fund , or to some other time ; and although upon this subject the series of cases is much less unbroken , and there are some not to be reconciled with others , yet it may be observed that the leaning towards adopting a definite period ...
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... fund into Court to the joint account of the Plain- tiffs , and after- wards , in con- sideration of the poverty of the parties , made an order , on the pe- tition of the wife , that the dividends should be paid to her for her life . The ...
... fund into Court to the joint account of the Plain- tiffs , and after- wards , in con- sideration of the poverty of the parties , made an order , on the pe- tition of the wife , that the dividends should be paid to her for her life . The ...
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... funds , the property was seised of a certain freehold estate therein described , of the in- tended wife , situate at New Brentford , and that Mrs. Dawson was should be possessed of certain copyholds of inheritance therein described ...
... funds , the property was seised of a certain freehold estate therein described , of the in- tended wife , situate at New Brentford , and that Mrs. Dawson was should be possessed of certain copyholds of inheritance therein described ...
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... fund was directed by the testator to be applied by his widow to charitable purposes generally , the distribution to ... fund was at the absolute discretion of the widow . The present is a stronger case than Waldo v . Caley , for here the ...
... fund was directed by the testator to be applied by his widow to charitable purposes generally , the distribution to ... fund was at the absolute discretion of the widow . The present is a stronger case than Waldo v . Caley , for here the ...
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Page 46 - A. married again between the date of the will and the death of the testator, and he was aware of her marriage: it was held, overruling the decision of Vice-Chancellor Wood, that A.
Page 530 - This tends to no mischief, and is a reasonable liberty to bestow ; but great detriment would arise, and much confusion of rights, if parties were allowed to invent new modes of holding, and enjoying real property, and to impress upon their lands and tenements a peculiar character, which should follow them into all hands, however remote.
Page 355 - ... publication, and all such other matters relating to the conduct of suits in the said Court as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, or one of them, shall by any general order or orders direct...
Page 791 - ... to the uses, upon and for the trusts, intents, and purposes, and with, under, and subject to the powers, provisoes, and declarations...
Page 498 - ... sealed, and delivered in the presence of and " attested by two or more credible witnesses, or by her
Page 778 - And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them, then one moiety of the said estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate, the residue of the said estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the intestate, who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them. VII. Provided, that there be no representations admitted among collaterals after brothers
Page 489 - That it seems to have been considered, in that case, that a communication, by the trustees, to creditors, of the fact of such a trust, would not defeat the power of revocation by the debtors.' It appears to me, however, that this doctrine is questionable ; because the creditors, being aware of such a trust, might be, thereby, induced to a forbearance in respect of their claims, which they would not otherwise have exercised.
Page 851 - Conn. 293, where a testator devised property in trust for a grandson, who was, at the date of the will and at the death of the testator...
Page 218 - ... an act, made in the first year of the reign of king William and queen Mary, intituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 91 - ... such person or persons as she should, by her will, direct and appoint ; and in case his said mother should die without a will, then to such person or persons as would be entitled to the same by virtue of the Statute of Distributions.