Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 55 |
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Page 80 - June [1677] all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 256 - ... part of the personal estate ; and this law relative to descents and dower shall remain in full force until altered by the legislature of the district.
Page 416 - ... in the city of Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois...
Page 41 - And if they are so mutually connected with and dependent on each other, as conditions, considerations, or compensations for each other, as to warrant the belief that the Legislature intended them as a whole, and...
Page 255 - That it shall be lawful for every person to devise, bequeath, or dispose of, by his will executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all personal estate which he shall be entitled to, either at law or in equity, at the time of his death...
Page 519 - The first and great rule in the exposition of wills, to which all other rules must bend is, that the intention of the testator, expressed In his will, shall prevail, provided it be consistent with the rules of law.
Page xx - ... ten days before the first day of the term of the court to, which the writ of error is returnable, so that said terre-tcnants may appear and defend.
Page 388 - ... the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation, with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death...
Page 493 - Todd delivered the opinion of the court: This was an action on the case brought by the plaintiff...
Page 225 - A motion for a new trial was duly made and overruled, and judgment entered on the verdict.