Law Reports Under the Superintendence and Control of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. Supreme Court of Judicature : Cases Determined in the Chancery Division and in Bankruptcy and Lunacy and on Appeal Therefrom in the Court of Appeal, Volume 1

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Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, 1894 - Equity
 

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Page 399 - Adopting then the rule of law which was laid down before the Act, and which seems to me to be precisely what is intended by sect. 2, sub-sect. 3, of the Act, the receipt by a person of a share of the profits of a business is primd facie evidence that he is a partner in
Page 54 - commencement of this Act, the costs of and incident to all proceedings in the Supreme Court, including the administration of estates and trusts, shall be in the discretion of the Court or Judge, and the Court or Judge shall have full power to determine by whom and to what extent such costs are to be paid,
Page 299 - 1837, requires that every will shall be construed with reference to the property comprised in it to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator,unless a contrary intention shall appear by the
Page 393 - the receipt by a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business, this is not to be regarded as a presumption which has to be rebutted by other circumstances; but all the circumstances
Page 135 - Where any person sustains any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers of this Act, in relation to any matter as to which he is not himself in default, full compensation shall be made to such person by the local authority exercising such powers. . . .
Page 562 - Higson, who being a son or sons should attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter or daughters should attain that age or marry, and if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common ; provided always that if
Page 682 - Lucas for her life for her separate use without power of anticipation, and after her death upon trust for such one or more of her children as she should by deed or will appoint, and in default of, and subject to any appointment, in trust for all her children who being sons
Page 613 - Mr. Justice Willes stated the general rule to be " that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved." This passage was cited with approval by Lord Selborne in
Page 35 - A purchaser shall not be prejudicially affected by notice of any instrument, fact, or thing unless—(i.) it is within his own knowledge, or would have come to his knowledge if such inquiries and inspections had been made as ought reasonably to have been made by him.
Page 627 - the directors are disentitled to claim the benefit of the Statute of Limitations on the ground of " fraud or fraudulent breach of trust to which the trustee was party or privy." Then, is there evidence on which I ought to act, that there has been fraud or fraudulent breach of trust to which the Respondents were

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