Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court During the Time of Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls. [1838-1866], Volume 12Saunders and Benning, 1851 - Equity |
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Page 549 - Implied, are such as reason and justice dictate, and which, therefore, the law presumes that every man undertakes to perform.
Page 68 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void...
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Page 595 - Power to appoint in any Manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an Execution of such Power, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 68 - Mod. 669). ;'What my Lord Coke says in Dr. Bonham's case in his 8 Co., is far from extravagancy, for it is a very reasonable and true saying, that if an act of parliament should ordain that the same person should be party and judge, or, which is the same thing, judge in his own cause, it would be a void act of parliament...
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Page 107 - ... marriage who being a son should attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter should attain that age or marry, then...
Page 172 - Bevan may hereafter become entitled, shall be settled and limited to the same uses, upon the same trusts, and for the same ends, intents, and purposes, as aforesaid.
Page 333 - June, 1849, by the plaintiff, on behalf of himself and all other the proprietors of shares in the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Company, except the defendants...
Page 150 - the Bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, to be placed to his account there ex parte " The Copyhold Commissioners...