A Digest of the Laws of England, Volume 7A. Strahan, 1822 - Digests, etc |
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9 Ves affidavit agreement amended annuity Anst answer application appointment assignment Attorney-general Ball & Beatty Beam bequest bill bond charge charity circumstances codicil contract conveyance copyhold costs courts of equity covenant creditors death debts decease decree deed defendant demurrer devise Dick directed discharge discovery dismissed entitled evidence execution executor favour feme covert filed fraud freehold fund granted held husband Ibid infant injunction intention interest interpleader issue Joinder jurisdiction land lease leasehold estates legacy legatee Lord lord chancellor marriage master mortgage motion ne exeat obtained paid parol partner party payment personal estate plaintiff plea possession proceeding purchase quære real estate reference refused relation relief remainder rents residuary residue restrain settlement specific performance statute statute of frauds stay waste suit tail tenant testator's trust twenty-one Vide void wife witnesses words
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Page 406 - ... remainder to the first and other sons of the marriage in tail male; remainder to the first and other...
Page 421 - Tarleton for life, with remainder to her first and other sons in tail male, with sundry other remainders to unborn children; and with the ultimate remainder to John Tarleton in fee.
Page 430 - ... in other purchases of real estates ; and, after the death of the survivor of the said several persons, that the said estates shall be divided into three lots, and that one lot shall be conveyed to the eldest male lineal descendant then living of A.
Page 470 - ... in promoting charitable purposes, as well of a public as a private nature, and more especially in relieving such distressed persons, either the widows or children of poor clergymen, or otherwise, as his wife shall judge most worthy and deserving objects, giving a preference always to poor relations.
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Page 431 - ... all the rest, residue and remainder of his real and personal estate...
Page 820 - RG, were parties, and by a recovery suffered in pursuance thereof, the estates were limited to the use of the husband for life, remainder to the wife for life, remainder to...
Page 316 - It is true that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to all the equities to which it was subject in the hands of the assignor, but the equities meant are such as obtain in favor of the debtor, and not those claimed by a third person against the assignor.
Page 447 - ... decease, then and in such case the legacy or legacies hereby intended for such child or children so dying shall be upon trust for, and I give and bequeath the same to him, her or their issue...
Page 417 - NY 512, a testator gave the residue of his real and personal estate to his wife