Notes of Cases in the Ecclesiastical & Maritime Courts: Easter Term 1841 to [Easter Term 1850], Issue 70, Volume 1

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Page 92 - That no obliteration, interlineation, or other alteration made in any will after the execution thereof shall be valid or have any effect, except so far as the words or effect of the will before such alteration shall not be apparent...
Page 577 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say), it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 601 - All grants of the Crown are to be strictly construed against the grantee, contrary to the usual policy of the law in the consideration of grants; and upon this just ground, that the prerogatives and rights and emoluments of the Crown being conferred upon it for great purposes, and for the public use, it shall not be. intended that such prerogatives, rights and emoluments are diminished by any grant, beyond what such grant by necessary and unavoidable construction shall take away.
Page 96 - And be it further enacted, That no will or codicil, or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking...
Page 469 - ... valid or not; or how far such case may be analogous to that of the members of a corporation aggregate, who, being assembled together for the purpose of choosing an officer of the corporation, the majority protest against, and refuse altogether to proceed to, any election ; in which case they have been held to throw away their votes, and the minority, who have performed their duty by voting, have been held to represent the whole number.
Page 334 - Replevin is hereby authorized and required to administer) and conditioned for prosecuting the Suit with Effect and without Delay, and for duly returning the Goods and Chattels distrained in case a Return shall be awarded...
Page 29 - Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
Page 94 - January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and that every will re-executed or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the same shall be so re-executed, republished, or revived...
Page 261 - In the Court of Probate the whole question is one of intention : — the animus testandi and the animus revocandi are completely open to investigation in this Court.
Page 553 - And if he shall refuse to christen the one, or bury the other, except the party deceased were denounced excommunicated majori excommunicatione, for some grievous and notorious crime (and no man able to testify of his repentance) he shall be suspended by the Bishop of the Diocese from his Ministry by the space of three months.

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