The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, Claims of Peerage, and Divorces: During the Sessions 1847 [-1866], Volume 8Little, Brown, 1862 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Abergavenny alienation ANGRAVE Appellant appointment argument Arundel assets assignee ATTORNEY Baroniam barony by tenure Barony of Berkeley BERKELEY PEERAGE CANONS Of WINDSOR castle charge charity chattels real Church of England claim Claimant clause Court Court of Chancery court of equity covenant creditors Crown Dean and Canons death debts declared decree deed Defendant dignity doubt Earl Earldom effect entitled equity evidence executed executors favour gift grant heirs male held hereditaments Honor House husband indenture intention JEFFRIES John Underwood Judges judgment King Knight-service lands learned friend legacy legatee Lord Chancellor Lord Chelmsford Lord Cranworth Lord ST Lordships ment mortgage noble and learned object opinion parties payment Peer personal estate Peyton Plaintiff Poor Knights possession question RANDFIELD reign rents settlement socage statute summoned to Parliament tenant testator's Thomas tion trustees Underwood VIII void Wensleydale wife Wing words writ of summons
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Page 167 - 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 presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 132 - The matters to be established for the estate of the king and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, should be treated, accorded, and established in Parliament, by the king and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm, according as had been before accustomed.
Page 487 - The jurisdiction is founded on the principle of correcting abuses of confidence, and I shall have no hesitation in saying it ought to be applied, whatever may be the nature of the confidence reposed, or the relation of the parties between whom it has subsisted.
Page 62 - And for holding the general council of the kingdom concerning the assessment of aids, except in the three cases aforesaid, and for the assessing of scutages, we will cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons of the realm, singly by our letters. And furthermore we shall cause to be summoned generally by our sheriffs and bailiffs, all others who hold of us in chief...
Page 720 - Appointment, to be sealed and delivered, by her, in the presence of, and attested by Two or more credible Witnesses, or by her last Will and Testament...
Page 116 - And all tenures of any honours, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any estate of any inheritance at the common law, held either of the king or of any other person or persons, bodies politick or corporate, are hereby enacted to be turned into free and common socage, to all intents and purposes...
Page 185 - Wing, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, to and for his and their own absolute use and benefit.
Page 352 - Roy do hereby for themselves severally and respectively, and for their several and respective heirs executors administrators and...
Page 20 - House, and that the said interlocutors therein complained of be and the same are hereby affirmed : And it is further ordered, That the appellants do pay or cause to be paid to the said respondents the costs incurred in respect of the said appeal...
Page 656 - ... to take place after their death, to the disherison of their lawful heirs...