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 1

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Page 157 - ... and give this Act and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this Act...
Page 647 - ... such land for the space of twenty-eight days next after a proper deed for making such conveyance shall have been tendered for his execution by, or by an agent duly authorized by, any person entitled to require the same...
Page 566 - Smyth have made and duly executed my last will and testament in writing bearing date the 14th day of February 1876.
Page 635 - Ellen (if any) who being a son or sons should attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter or daughters should attain that age or be married, in equal shares as tenants in common, and if there should be but one such child, the whole to be in trust for that one child.
Page 161 - ... they shall do nothing else : — that they shall do and shall forbear all that they are thereby required to do and to forbear, as well with reference to the interests of the public, as with reference to the interests of individuals.
Page 100 - If touching matters that come within the ordinary scope of professional employment they receive a communication in their professional capacity, either from a client or on his account, and for his benefit, in the transaction of his business, or which amounts to the same thing, if they commit to paper in the course of their employment on his behalf, matters which they...
Page 248 - Do you know, or can you set forth, any other matter or thing which may be a benefit or advantage to the parties at issue in this cause, or either of them, or that may be material to the subject of this, your examination, or the matters in question in this cause? If yea, set forth the same fully and at large in your answer.
Page 32 - ... to the use of the first son of the body of the said John Nathaniel Micklethwait lawfully to be begotten, and the heirs male of the body of such first son lawfully issuing ; and, in default of such issue, to the use of the second, third, fourth, and all and every other son...
Page 248 - ... into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the accountant general of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account...
Page 248 - This cause coming on this present day to be heard and debated before, &c. in the presence of counsel learned on both sides, and the pleadings in this cause being opened, upon debate of the matter and hearing [here state, in the usual form, a description of the evidence which was read'], and what was alleged by the counsel on both sides, his Lordship doth order and decree [or doth declare], &c.

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