Report of Cases in Chancery: Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court During the Time of Lord Landale, Master of the Rolls, 1838-1866, Volume 12Saunders and Benning, 1851 - Equity |
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Page 126
... of himself and the other proprietors other than the Defendants , against the chairman and directors , and the Company , alleging ( as the the Court considered with sufficient distinctness , ) that the 126 CASES IN CHANCERY .
... of himself and the other proprietors other than the Defendants , against the chairman and directors , and the Company , alleging ( as the the Court considered with sufficient distinctness , ) that the 126 CASES IN CHANCERY .
Page 127
... directors had abandoned all inten- tion of constructing the railway from Epsom to Ports- mouth , a distance of fifty - six miles , and had deter- mined to make a railway which should extend from Epsom to Leatherhead , being a distance ...
... directors had abandoned all inten- tion of constructing the railway from Epsom to Ports- mouth , a distance of fifty - six miles , and had deter- mined to make a railway which should extend from Epsom to Leatherhead , being a distance ...
Page 128
... directors are acting strictly within their powers : their act authorised them to construct every inch of the line of railway ; the whole cannot be made at one time , but must necessarily be made piece- meal . They have authority to make ...
... directors are acting strictly within their powers : their act authorised them to construct every inch of the line of railway ; the whole cannot be made at one time , but must necessarily be made piece- meal . They have authority to make ...
Page 130
... directors can make a portion of the railway , WILKINSON . With a view to completing the whole , but whether having determined not to make fifty - two miles , they can apply the funds in making the remaining four miles alone . Acts of ...
... directors can make a portion of the railway , WILKINSON . With a view to completing the whole , but whether having determined not to make fifty - two miles , they can apply the funds in making the remaining four miles alone . Acts of ...
Page 133
... Directors have abandoned all intention of constructing the railway from Epsom to Portsmouth , which is a dis- tance of fifty - six miles , and have determined to make a railway which shall extend from Epsom to Leatherhead , being a ...
... Directors have abandoned all intention of constructing the railway from Epsom to Portsmouth , which is a dis- tance of fifty - six miles , and have determined to make a railway which shall extend from Epsom to Leatherhead , being a ...
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Page 557 - Implied, are such as reason and justice dictate, and which, therefore, the law presumes that every man undertakes to perform.
Page 68 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void...
Page 603 - Power to appoint in any Manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an Execution of such Power, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 45 - Britain, either as a charge on any property of the person paying the same by virtue of any deed or will or otherwise, or as a reservation thereout, or as a personal debt or obligation by virtue of any contract, or whether the same shall be received and payable half-yearly or at any shorter or more distant periods...
Page 609 - July 1822, it was declared, that, according to the true construction of the will...
Page 107 - ... marriage who being a son should attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter should attain that age or marry, then...
Page 182 - Bevan may hereafter become entitled, shall be settled and limited to the same uses, upon the same trusts, and for the same ends, intents, and purposes, as aforesaid.
Page xv - Act passed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for amending certain Acts of the Fourth and Fifth Years of the (a) Reg. Lib. 1849. B. fol. 788. the Reign of Her Majesty, for facilitating the 18S°Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery...
Page xxi - Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and •with the advice and assistance of the Right Honourable HENRY...
Page 613 - That the Master shall, subject to such appeal as herein provided adjudicate upon and determine any matter in contest between contributories or classes of contributories, or between the company and any individual contributories or classes of contributories...