A Treatise of the Rights, Duties and Liabilities of Husband and Wife, at Law and in Equity |
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... filed a bill to obtain different properties out of the hands of Harvey . Part of the decree was , that Harvey should account for such part of the per- sonal estate of his wife's former husband , as had come to the hands of his wife ...
... filed a bill to obtain different properties out of the hands of Harvey . Part of the decree was , that Harvey should account for such part of the per- sonal estate of his wife's former husband , as had come to the hands of his wife ...
Page 84
... filed for the wife , as Lord Holt stated the law to be , when it mesne pro- cess against husband b was asserted at ... filing common bail , though the husband had ab- sconded . If the process be against husband and wife , and he be ...
... filed for the wife , as Lord Holt stated the law to be , when it mesne pro- cess against husband b was asserted at ... filing common bail , though the husband had ab- sconded . If the process be against husband and wife , and he be ...
Page 86
... filed , and that if two be arrested , a declaration cannot be filed against one only . 0 Such is the state of the practice respecting the discharge of married women from custody , where they have been ar- rested on mesne process ...
... filed , and that if two be arrested , a declaration cannot be filed against one only . 0 Such is the state of the practice respecting the discharge of married women from custody , where they have been ar- rested on mesne process ...
Page 107
... filed a bill for the arrears of her jointure , and had a decree , that the possession of certain lands mentioned in the decree , part of the real estate of her late husband , should be forthwith delivered to her , and that the tenants ...
... filed a bill for the arrears of her jointure , and had a decree , that the possession of certain lands mentioned in the decree , part of the real estate of her late husband , should be forthwith delivered to her , and that the tenants ...
Page 116
... filed by another residuary legatee , to which she and her husband were parties defendants , a decree had been made directing a sale of the estate , and an account , and that the respective shares should be paid to them . Lord Nor ...
... filed by another residuary legatee , to which she and her husband were parties defendants , a decree had been made directing a sale of the estate , and an account , and that the respective shares should be paid to them . Lord Nor ...
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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...