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... and inci- dents , and the modes by which it may be prevented and forfeited 195 CHAP . IV . Of jointures at the common law , and according to the 27 Hen . 8. c . 10 . 205 Page CHAP . V. Of provisions made for the wife vili CONTENTS .
... and inci- dents , and the modes by which it may be prevented and forfeited 195 CHAP . IV . Of jointures at the common law , and according to the 27 Hen . 8. c . 10 . 205 Page CHAP . V. Of provisions made for the wife vili CONTENTS .
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... common It is a general rule of the common law of England , that a married woman cannot possess personal property , and that every thing of this nature to which she is entitled at the time of her marriage , and which accrues in her right ...
... common It is a general rule of the common law of England , that a married woman cannot possess personal property , and that every thing of this nature to which she is entitled at the time of her marriage , and which accrues in her right ...
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... common law , the husband had no re- medy , after the decease of his wife , for the arrears of rent due before the marriage , for the personal representatives of the wife were entitled to them ; but by the 22 Hen . 6. cap . 25 . an ...
... common law , the husband had no re- medy , after the decease of his wife , for the arrears of rent due before the marriage , for the personal representatives of the wife were entitled to them ; but by the 22 Hen . 6. cap . 25 . an ...
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... common law of England to Husband supply his wife with necessaries , such as meat , drink , clothes , medicine , & c . & c . suitable to his degree and circumstan- for his wife . ces ; and if he will not do so , the law affords a remedy ...
... common law of England to Husband supply his wife with necessaries , such as meat , drink , clothes , medicine , & c . & c . suitable to his degree and circumstan- for his wife . ces ; and if he will not do so , the law affords a remedy ...
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... common law liability to provide necessaries for his wife ; while , on the other hand , it seems an equally strange proposition , that where a man has made himself liable by deed to the payment of a particular sum , for a particular ...
... common law liability to provide necessaries for his wife ; while , on the other hand , it seems an equally strange proposition , that where a man has made himself liable by deed to the payment of a particular sum , for a particular ...
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9 Ves afterwards annuity appoint arrested assets assignment assumpsit band bar of dower bond Chan chattels real choses in action claim common law consent contract court of equity covenant coverture creditors curtesy debts decree deed defendant devised discharge dispose dum sola entitled estate of inheritance execution executors feme covert feme sole feoffment given heirs held husband and wife husband's death intention interest issue jointure judgment lease legacy liable Lord Chancellor Lord Coke Lord Eldon Lord Hardwicke Lord Thurlow Lordship marriage married woman ment necessaries paid payment personal estate plaintiff provision real estate reduced into possession rents and profits reversionary riage right by survivorship rule seised seisin sepa separate estate separate maintenance separate property settled settlement statute sued survive tenant term Thomas Plumer tion trust valuable consideration Vern vested vivorship void widow wife's choses wife's land wife's right
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Page 99 - And in case there be no children nor any legal representatives of them, then one moiety of the said estate to be allotted to the wife of the intestate, the residue of the said estate to be distributed equally to every of the next of kindred of the intestate, who are in equal degree and those who legally represent them. VII. Provided, that there be no representations admitted among collaterals after brothers
Page 195 - Tenant in dower is. where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife, and dieth, the wife after the decease of her husband shall be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, to have and to hold to the same wife in severally by metes and bounds for term of her life...
Page 100 - London is called the widow's chamber) is divided into three parts; one of which belongs to the widow, another to the children, and the third to the administrator : if only a widow, or only children, they shall respectively, in either case, take one moiety, and the administrator the other (A); if neither widow nor child, the administrator shall have the whole...
Page 632 - America to them in hand paid by the party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 218 - That if any such Woman be lawfully expulsed or evicted from her said Jointer, or from any part thereof, without any Fraud or Covin, by lawful Entry, Action, or by Discontinuance of her Husband, then every such Woman shall be endowed of as much of the Residue of her Husband's Tenements or Hereditaments, whereof she was before dowable, as the same Lands and Tenements so evicted and expulsed shall amount or extend unto.
Page 565 - Master's office, it was ordered, that it should be referred to the Master to take an account of the personal estate of the testator...
Page 302 - Platt, as well when covert or sole, and notwithstanding her coverture, by her last will and testament in writing, or any writing purporting...
Page 632 - ... hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same (that is to say...
Page 371 - If this were res integra untouched by dictum or decision, I would not have permitted such a covenant to be the foundation of an action or a suit in this court. But if dicta have followed dicta, or decision has followed decision, to the extent of settling the law, I cannot, upon any doubt of mine, as to what ought originally to have been the decision, shake what is the settled law upon the subject.
Page 430 - Thus, in an early case a deed made between husband and wife and a third person as trustee, with a covenant by the husband to pay such third person an annuity in case the wife should live separate and apart from her husband and should take one of her children to reside with her...