Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, from the Year MDCCLXXXIX to MDCCCXVII, with a Digested Index, Volume 9C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1844 - Equity |
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Page 339 - ... remainder to the use of the first and other sons of the marriage in tail male ; remainder to...
Page 131 - Twemlow, their heirs and assigns, upon trust that they and the survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, should, from time to time...
Page 323 - The consequence is, that, if they remain in the possession, order, and disposition of the bankrupt at the time of the bankruptcy, they will pass by the assignment to the assignees.
Page 208 - But, farther, unless the inadequacy of price is such as shocks the conscience, and amounts in itself to conclusive and decisive evidence of fraud in the transaction, it is not itself a sufficient ground for refusing a specific performance...
Page 176 - Bradley (c), speaking with all due deference to the learned Judge, who expressed that dictum, it appeared to me, that it went to shake settled rules to their very foundation. I had heard the case of Forth v. Chapman (d) cited for years, and repeatedly by Lord Kenyan himself, as not to be shaken. I never knew it shaken ; and if Porter v.
Page 209 - ... no fraud, no concealment, no advantage taken by the trustee, of information acquired by him in the character of trustee.
Page 471 - in trust for such objects of benevolence and liberality as the trustee in his own discretion shall most approve, cannot be * supported as a charitable legacy ; and is therefore a trust [ * 80 ] for the next of kin.
Page 388 - Leigh, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, equally to be divided between them, as tenants in common and not as joint tenants.
Page 69 - Redesdale himself, it is not very easily to be removed ; nor capable of being removed by stating any judgment authorizing that passage. The proposition, that in general by an original bill in the nature of a supplemental bill, the benefit of the former proceedings may be obtained, ts properly so restrained.
Page 167 - ... attested by two or more credible witnesses, or by his last will and testament in writing, or by any codicil or codicils thereto, to be signed and attested by three or more credible witnesses...