Delaware Reports: Containing Cases Decided in the Supreme Court (excepting Appeals from the Chancellor) and the Superior Court and the Orphans Court of the State of Delaware, Volume 12David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey Mercantile Print. Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 102
... dower in his lands , will not be effective as an equitable bar to her right of election to take dower in lieu of the interest given to her by her husband's will . ( New Castle , Oct. 30 , 1884. ) APPEAL from the Orphans ' Court of New ...
... dower in his lands , will not be effective as an equitable bar to her right of election to take dower in lieu of the interest given to her by her husband's will . ( New Castle , Oct. 30 , 1884. ) APPEAL from the Orphans ' Court of New ...
Page 103
... dower aforesaid . Whereupon the counsel for said executors and devisees filed the following exception to said application for dower , to wit : " That the said petitioner in and by a certain instrument in writing filed in this cause ...
... dower aforesaid . Whereupon the counsel for said executors and devisees filed the following exception to said application for dower , to wit : " That the said petitioner in and by a certain instrument in writing filed in this cause ...
Page 104
... provis- ion in conformity with it . He gave the income of one eleventh of his estate to his wife for life , " to be deemed and taken in lieu and bar of dower in my estate . I make this provision for the love and 104 SUPERIOR COURT .
... provis- ion in conformity with it . He gave the income of one eleventh of his estate to his wife for life , " to be deemed and taken in lieu and bar of dower in my estate . I make this provision for the love and 104 SUPERIOR COURT .
Page 105
... dower , she has the assurance to press her application for its assignment . At common law a jointure was not a bar to dower ; but the wife could retain the former and also insist upon the latter . Clancy on Married Women , 219 . But ...
... dower , she has the assurance to press her application for its assignment . At common law a jointure was not a bar to dower ; but the wife could retain the former and also insist upon the latter . Clancy on Married Women , 219 . But ...
Page 106
... dower in the real estate of her said intended hus- band . " Rev. Code , 533 , Sec . 3 . Land need not be given to , or settled upon , a woman in order to bar her in equity of her dower . The acceptance of a term of years or of a sum of ...
... dower in the real estate of her said intended hus- band . " Rev. Code , 533 , Sec . 3 . Land need not be given to , or settled upon , a woman in order to bar her in equity of her dower . The acceptance of a term of years or of a sum of ...
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Page 58 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it. either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Page 90 - ... make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at their pleasure; and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution...
Page 90 - ... to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever...
Page 62 - This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the trustees, and the crown (to whose rights and obligations New Hampshire succeeds) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration. It is a contract for the security and disposition of property. It is a contract on the faith of which real and personal estate has been conveyed to the corporation. It is then a contract within the letter of the constitution, and within its spirit also...
Page 357 - It keeps all inferior jurisdictions within the bounds of their authority, and may either remove their proceedings to be determined here, or prohibit their progress below. It superintends all civil corporations in the kingdom. It commands magistrates and others to do what their duty requires, in every case where there is no other specific remedy. It protects the liberty of the subject, by speedy and summary interposition.
Page 293 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing...
Page 55 - And if they are so mutually connected with and dependent on each other, as conditions, considerations, or compensations for each other, as to warrant the belief that the legislature intended them as a whole, and...
Page 65 - The objection to a law, on the ground of its impairing the obligation of a contract, can never depend upon the extent of the change which the law effects in it.
Page 142 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 88 - ... provides that no man shall be deprived of his property except by due process of law.