Report of the Case of Earle and Others Vs. Wood and Others: Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court for the Counties of Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable and Dukes County, October Term, 1851, at Plymouth |
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adjournment adopted aforesaid aggregate bodies appointed ascertained Benjamin Slade Buffum was clerk called Quakers chosen overseers claim committee congregational churches contingency convey corporate capacity corporate powers court of equity covenant and declare covenanting clauses Danforth David Shove decided deed defendants duly England estate in fee estate vest evidence fee simple feoffees Gurneyites habendum HAVERFORD COLLEGE heirs and assigns intention Island quarterly meeting joint tenancy Jonathan Chace jurisdiction legal estate minutes officers opinion original grantees overseers of monthly overseers of Swanzey parties persons plaintiffs premises proceedings property in succession quar quarterly and yearly quarterly or yearly question regular representatives Reuben Chace Rhode Island quarterly rules of law Shearman Shove was clerk Slade and Chace Slade and Reuben society of Friends statute subordinate supplemental bill Swanzey monthly meeting take and hold terly Thomas Wilbur tion true and legitimate true overseers unity voluntary association Wilbur was clerk William Wood yearly meeting
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Page 438 - Works for the time being, and in case any building, structure, or erection be erected or be begun to be erected or raised without such consent, or contrary to the terms and conditions on which the same may have been granted, it shall be lawful for the Vestry of the Parish or the Board of Works for the district in which such building or erection is situate to cause to be made complaint thereof before a Justice of the Peace...
Page 447 - All conveyances and devises of lands, or of any interest therein, made to two or more persons, except as provided in the next following section, shall be construed to create estates in common, and not in joint tenancy, unless it shall be expressed therein that the grantees or devisees shall...
Page 439 - Jr. his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever.
Page 430 - ... and his heirs, executors and administrators shall warrant and defend the same to the grantee and his heirs and assigns against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
Page 438 - ... real and personal estate, according to the terms and conditions of the grants and donations; and to prosecute and defend in any action touching the same ; provided, that the income of the grants and donations, to any one of such meetings, for the uses aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars a year.
Page 440 - King, have unto these presents set my hand and seal, this tenth day of the seventh month, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six.
Page 439 - ... shall, at any time hereafter, upon the request and at the cost and charge of the said meeting, or such other monthly or quarterly meeting as the meeting of said people at Swanzey, for the time being, shall or may belong to, being in unity with the yearly meeting for New England, or of any person or persons the}- may appoint in this respect, make, do and execute such 'further act and deed...
Page 430 - The trust there expressed was, ' to and for the uses and purposes of the said people called " Quakers," as by the said yearly, quarterly, or monthly meeting, or their, or either of their, committees, may be devised, advised, and required.
Page 438 - I have given, granted, bargained, and sold, and do, by these presents, give, grant, bargain, sell, and convey...
Page 456 - Quaker body, it appears that the yearly meeting has a final and controlling jurisdiction in all matters of faith and religious duty, of administration and discipline, as well as of manners and conduct, of all Quakers within its limits.