The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, Claims of Peerage, and Divorces: During the Sessions 1847 [-1866], Volume 2Little, Brown, 1870 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... payments on account of the appellant and of the expenses incurred in the management of his property ; but after allowing for such payments , there remained a large balance , to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds , due from ...
... payments on account of the appellant and of the expenses incurred in the management of his property ; but after allowing for such payments , there remained a large balance , to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds , due from ...
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... pay interest on the deposit , It was the duty of the respondents to keep the accounts with the appellant clear and ... payment of balances to say that they might be recovered in an action at law . Such a doctrine would supersede the ...
... pay interest on the deposit , It was the duty of the respondents to keep the accounts with the appellant clear and ... payment of balances to say that they might be recovered in an action at law . Such a doctrine would supersede the ...
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... pay the 31. per cent . or had refused to pay the money when demanded . That was the whole of his contract . He had con- tracted for nothing more . I can see no breach of contract by this banker , who , if it had been demanded at the ...
... pay the 31. per cent . or had refused to pay the money when demanded . That was the whole of his contract . He had con- tracted for nothing more . I can see no breach of contract by this banker , who , if it had been demanded at the ...
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... pay any strictly legal demand , therefore that puts the case on a different footing .. I should be very sorry if that should be so ; because I am sure the Court of Chancery might have then a bill from every * 43 * tradesman for payment ...
... pay any strictly legal demand , therefore that puts the case on a different footing .. I should be very sorry if that should be so ; because I am sure the Court of Chancery might have then a bill from every * 43 * tradesman for payment ...
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... payments for the estate . - THE appellant was , under his father's will , dated in 1793 , ten- ant for life of the Bacolet estate , in the Island of Grenada , subject to the payment of an annuity to the testator's widow , and of lega ...
... payments for the estate . - THE appellant was , under his father's will , dated in 1793 , ten- ant for life of the Bacolet estate , in the Island of Grenada , subject to the payment of an annuity to the testator's widow , and of lega ...
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aforesaid alleged annuity appellant applied appointed argument assignees attainder bankrupt bankruptcy Barnewall bill bottomry breach charged claim Clark & Finnelly commissioner committee contract costs Court of Equity Court of Exchequer daughter death debts declared decree deed Duke Earl of Crawford Earldom effect eldest entitled evidence executors fact freight H. E. Wyatt heirs male held Henry Crockett House insolvent interest Ireland issue John judgment Lady Elizabeth lands learned friend learned Judges legacies liable limitation Lindsay Lord Advocate LORD BROUGHAM LORD CAMPBELL Lord Chancellor Lord Lyndhurst Lordships marriage Master Meeson & Welsby ment moiety mortgage noble and learned opinion owner paid parties partnership payment Peerage personal estate Perth plaintiff in error plea possession question remainder respect respondents right of action settlement shares ship Statute tenant testator's thereof tion total loss trust underwriters vested William William Smith O'Brien Woodroffe
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Page 355 - Inst. 9), or the king's eldest daughter, unmarried ; or the wife of the king's eldest son nnd heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm ; or be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm giving them aid and comfort in the realm or elsewhere, and thereof be probably (proveablement, proveably) attainted of open deed by the people of their condition...
Page 648 - Dingwall, and the heirs of his body, whom failing, to the heirs male of the body of the...
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Page 25 - Money, when paid into a bank, ceases altogether to be the money of the principal ; a it is then the money of the banker, who is bound to return an equivalent by paying a similar sum to that deposited with him when he is asked for it.
Page 112 - ... intestate, or shall be advanced by the said intestate in his lifetime, by portion not equal to the share which will be due to the other children by such distribution as aforesaid, then so much of the surplusage of the estate of such intestate to be distributed to such child or children as shall have any land by settlement from the intestate, or were advanced in the lifetime of the intestate, as shall make the estate of all the said children to be equal as near as can be estimated ; but the heir...
Page 231 - Act is given to sales, and that owners intrusting agents with the possession of goods and merchandise, or of documents of title thereto, should in all cases where such owners by the said recited Act or otherwise would be bound by a contract or agreement of sale be in like manner bound by any contract or agreement of pledge or lien for any advances bond fide made on the security thereof...
Page 450 - when any person shall have been adjudged a bankrupt, all his personal estate and effects, present and future, wheresoever the same may be found or known, and all property which he may purchase, or which may revert, descend, be devised or bequeathed...
Page 527 - Bloomfield, accordingly, to hold to him, his heirs and assigns for ever, according to the custom of the said manor...
Page 450 - Bankrupt wheresoever the same may be found or known, and such Assignment shall vest the Property* Right and Interest in such Debts in such Assignees, as fully as if the Assurance whereby they are secured had been made to such Assignees...
Page 325 - ... and it was referred to the Master to take an account of the personal estate, and also to state out of what estate she was dowable.