Irish Equity Reports, Volume 3

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Hodges and Smith., 1841 - Equity
"Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery and the Rolls Court." (varies).

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Page 185 - December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, no action or suit or other proceeding shall be brought, to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment, or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, at law or in equity, or any legacy, but within twenty years next after a present right to receive the same shall have accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for or release of the same...
Page 400 - December, 1833, no arrears of rent, or of interest in respect of any sum of money charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, or in respect of any legacy, or any damages in respect of such arrears of rent or interest, shall be recovered by any distress, action, or suit, but within six years next after the same respectively shall have Become due, or next after an acknowledgment of the same in writing shall have been given to the person entitled thereto, or his agent, signed by the person by whom...
Page 88 - And it was resolved by them, that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the Common Law), four things are to be discerned and considered: 1st.
Page 354 - ... be paid into 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...
Page 6 - The general rule is, that a person cannot accept and reject the same instrument : and this is the foundation of the law of election...
Page 12 - Hanson, their executors, administrators, and assigns, upon trust that they, my said trustees and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Page 284 - Majesties, and the survivor of them, during their lives, and the life of the survivor of them. And...
Page 399 - One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, no arrears of rent or of interest in respect of any sum of money charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, or in respect of any legacy, or any damages in respect of such arrears of rent or interest, shall be recovered by any distress, action, or suit, but within six years next after the same respectively shall have become due...
Page 333 - No doubt but this court has jurisdiction to relieve in respect of a plain mistake in contracts in writing as well as against frauds in contracts; so that if reduced into writing contrary to the intent of the parties, on proper proof, that would be rectified.
Page 5 - In equity it is considered, as good sense requires it should be, that no man can be held by any act' üf his to confirm a title, unless he was fully aware at the time, not only of the fact upon which the defect of title depends, but of the consequence in point of law...

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