Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, from the Year M DCC LXXXIX to M DCCC XVII: With a Digested Index, Volume 15C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1845 - Equity |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
act of bankruptcy Act of Parliament admitted agent agreement answer ante applied appointed assignment Attorney Bank Annuities bankrupt bequest Bill Champerty circumstances claim Commission of Bankruptcy Commissioners consideration considered contract copyhold copyhold estate costs Court of Equity covenant creditors daughter death debt decease declared Decree deed Defendant demurrer devise directed Edward Fields effect entitled execution executors Farquharson farther fund give heirs husband intention interest issue joint King's Bench Lawtie lease legacy legatee Leigh lien Lord CHANCELLOR ELDON Lord Hardwicke Lord Thurlow marriage Master ment Nicholas Lechmere objection opinion Order paid parties partner partnership payment petition petitioner Plaintiff plea principle purchase Pyot question received remainder residuary residue Sir Samuel Romilly solicitor Stat Statute of Limitations surrender taken tenant in tail testator's tion transaction trust twenty-one whole wife William words
Popular passages
Page 221 - every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate 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 Will.
Page 229 - practice of the Courts, the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day, and inclusively of the last day, unless the last day shall happen to fall on Sunday, Christmas-day, Good Friday, or a day appointed for a public Fast or Thanksgiving, in which case the time shall be reckoned exclusively of that day also.
Page 255 - The 4th section enacts, that no Action shall be brought whereby to charge the Defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt of another person, unless the Agreement, upon which such Action
Page 301 - the trade of merchandize by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, chevisance, or otherwise, in gross, or by retail, or seeking his or her living by buying and selling, or that shall use the trade or profession of a scrivener, receiving other
Page 123 - THE Bill in this cause stated the Will of Lord Leigh, dated the llth of May, 1767 ; devising all his estates, subject as to part to a term of five hundred years, to his sister Mary Leigh for her life ; with remainder to her first and other sons in tail male ; remainder to her daughters in tail general, as tenants in common ; remainder to
Page 344 - and his assigns for his life without impeachment of waste ; with remainder to the use of the trustees and their heirs during the life of the said
Page 361 - professes atheistical or irreligious principles; or his domestic associations are such, as tend to the corruption and contamination of his children; or he otherwise acts in a manner injurious to the morals or interests of his children; in every such case, the Court of Chancery will interfere, and deprive him of the custody of his
Page 465 - Assignment to navy agents of part of the subject of a prize suit, then depending, void; amounting to champerty ; viz. the unlawful maintenance of a suit in consideration of a bargain for part of the thing, or some profit out of it; which is not confined to Courts of Common Law. Stevens v. Bagwell.
Page 361 - he otherwise acts in a manner injurious to the morals or interests of his children; in every such case, the Court of Chancery will interfere, and deprive him of the custody of his children, and appoint a suitable person to act as guardian, and to take care of them, and to superintend their education. 2 Story, Eq. Jur. § 1341.
Page 294 - If that is to be understood, that this equity would not extend to a third person, who had notice, that the money was not paid, Lord Hardwicke's subsequent decisions contradict that: if the meaning is, that he would follow the case of Coppin v. Coppin, and that, if the vendor exhausted