The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1838 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 218 - ... of such property so directed to be accumulated, shall, so long as the same shall be directed to be accumulated contrary to the provisions of this Act, go to and be received by such person or persons as would have been entitled thereto if such accumulation had not been directed.
Page 27 - Held, first, that the goods were in the order and disposition of the bankrupt, at the time of his bankruptcy, with the consent of the true owner, within the 6 Geo.
Page 204 - Dec. 1833, no action or suit or other proceeding shall be brought to recover any sum of money secured by any mortgage, judgment or lien, or otherwise charged upon or payable out of any land or rent, at law or in equity, or any legacy, but within twenty years next after a present right to receive the same shall have accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for or release of the same...
Page 204 - ... unless in the meantime some part of the principal money, or some interest thereon, shall have been paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing, signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable, or his agent, to the person entitled thereto, or his agent; and in such case, no such action or suit or proceeding shall be brought but within twenty years after such payment or acknowledgment, or the last of such payments or acknowledgments, if more than one,...
Page 216 - ... during the minority or respective minorities of any person or persons who shall be living, or in ventre sa mere at the time of the death of such grantor, devisor, or testator...
Page 42 - Nothing can call forth this Court into activity, but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence : where these are wanting, the Court is passive and does nothing.
Page 118 - ... and receive and take the rents, issues, and profits thereof, to and for his and their own use and benefit, without any lawful let, suit...
Page 183 - Account hereinbefore mentioned, accompanied with proper vouchers in support of the same, and all books, papers, and writings in their custody or power relating thereto ; and any person interested in the said...
Page 17 - Isabella or any future wife, successively in tail male, with remainder to the use of the first and...
Page 230 - When it comes to a question of quantity, it must be very vague. One writer might take all the vital part of another's book, though it might be but a small proportion of the book in quantity. It is not only quantity but value that is always looked to. It is useless to refer to any particular cases as to quantity.