Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, Volume 41Soney & Sage, 1886 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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12 Stew agreement alleged amount answer appears applied appointed assignment Bell company bill bond and mortgage Brokaw C. E. Gr chancellor chattels claim complainant complainant's contract Converse company conveyed Cook corporation counsel court of chancery court of equity creditors cross-bill death debts deceased decree deed defendant demurrer devised Domestic company Doughten entitled equity evidence executed executors fact filed Franklinite give Hammell Handvil held husband injunction insolvent interest intestate James Horner John Ryle judgment land Landis lease legacies liable lien loan matter Matthew Armstrong ment Moore mortgagor Oakey Ocean City orphans court owner paid Parker parties payment petitioner plainant possession proofs purchase question Railroad Company real estate receiver rents says share statute suit Telephone testator's testimony thereof tion transaction Trotter trust Vail Western Union widow wife William Ryle witnesses
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Page 538 - Suspicion of defect of title or the knowledge of circumstances which would excite such suspicion in the mind of a prudent man, or gross negligence on the part of the taker, at the time of the transfer, will not defeat his title. That result can be produced only by bad faith on his part.
Page 393 - A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she shall have lawfully released her right thereto.
Page 225 - The inequity which deprives a suitor of a right to justice in a court of equity is not general iniquitous conduct unconnected with the act of the defendant which the complaining party states as his ground or cause of action, but it must be evil practice or wrong conduct in the particular matter or transaction in respect to which judicial protection or redress is sought.
Page 537 - That there were two questions for their consideration: First, whether the plaintiff had given value for the bill, of which there could be no doubt ; and, second, whether he took it under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man.
Page 553 - On the dissolution of a partnership by the death of one of its members, the surviving partner is...
Page 7 - ... company, and also the name or names of the occupant or occupants, if any there be, and of the owner or owners, if known, and their residence, if the same can be ascertained, to one of the justices of the supreme court of this state, who shall cause the said company to give notice thereof to the...
Page 234 - I am of opinion that, generally speaking, if a party having an interest to prevent an act being done has full notice of its having been done, and acquiesces in it, so as to induce a reasonable belief that he consents to it, and the position of others is altered by their giving credit to his sincerity, he has no more right to challenge the act to their prejudice than he would have had if it had been done by his previous license.
Page 225 - Under the established maxim that "he who comes into equity must come with clean hands...
Page 86 - In this case, there is nothing to indicate an intention on the part of the testator that the property covered by the revoked clauses should not go to the residuary devisees. The residuary clause is expressed in the broadest terms. " I give, bequeath and devise all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate of every description, of which I shall die seised and possessed.
Page 115 - MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH," incorporated by the Legislature of the State of New York, the sum of and the receipt of the Treasurer thereof shall be a sufficient discharge to my executors for the same.