Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, from the Year 1746-7 to 1755. By Francis Vesey, Senior ...

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Page 112 - The settlor conveys it to the use of himself for life, and after his death to the use that his widow may receive a rent charge (or jointure, as it is called).
Page 10 - ... The Judges, having heard the proofs read and having heard counsel thereon and maturely considered the matter, by their Interlocutory Decree, having the force of a definitive sentence, in writing, at the petition of Crickett, pronounced the Bottomree Bond to be due to Crickett's client as libellate, with interest for the same at the rate of £4 per cent. to the time of payment, except interest as to the sum of £74 on which Jameson & Co. ought not to have interest, the same not having been actually...
Page 218 - ... that they, the said trustees, or the survivor of them, or the executors, administrators, or assigns, of such survivor...
Page 136 - Lordship doth therefore order, that the parties do proceed to a trial at law at the bar of the Court of King's Bench...
Page 188 - Penns ; and that such lines should be completely so run, marked, and laid out, on or before the last day of April 1752 ; and when so done, that a true and exact plan and survey thereof, with the best, and most exact, and certain description that could be given of the same, should be made up, signed, and sealed by the commissioners on both sides, and by their principals, and be entered in all the public offices in the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the three lower counties of Newcastle,...
Page 89 - Michaelmas 1744, and all arrears since, and which should become due to the plaintiff; and that the defendant might be decreed to pay the...
Page 189 - that Cape Henlopen ought to be deemed and taken to be situated at the place where the same is laid down and described in the map or plan annexed to the said articles to be situated, and therefore his lordship doth further order and decree that the said articles be carried into execution accordingly,
Page 5 - Every intendment is to be made against holding a man to die intestate, who sits down to dispose of the residue of his property.
Page 6 - ... and, where the name is inserted in such a manner as to have that effect, it does not much signify, in what part of the instrument it is to be found...
Page 403 - I am disposed in this case to concur with the opinion of the Master of the Rolls; meaning rather to state my judgment, that the rule is not, that in every case, where general words are used, the property shall or shall not pass; but, that in each case you must look at every part of the will for the intention with regard to such property.

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