The Law Students' Magazine, Volume 6

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R. Hastings, 1854 - Law

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Page 346 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Page 218 - die without leaving issue," or "have no issue," or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the...
Page 209 - We do not see how a better test can be applied to the question whether reasonable or not than by considering whether the restraint is such only as to afford a fair protection to the interests of the party in favor of whom it is given, and not so large as to interfere with the interests of the public.
Page 348 - ... aforesaid, shall prevent the operation of the will with respect to such estate or interest in such real or personal estate as the testator shall have power to dispose of by will at the time of his death.
Page 218 - ... by the will, by reason of such person having a prior estate tail, or of a preceding gift, being, without any implication arising from such words, a limitation of an estate tail to such person or issue, or otherwise...
Page 301 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle that wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it
Page 26 - Court, shall and may be sworn and taken in Scotland or Ireland, or the Channel Islands, or in any colony, island, plantation or place under the dominion of Her Majesty...
Page 276 - ... at the time at which the same shall have become an estate or interest in possession, by the determination of any estate or estates in respect of which such land...
Page 335 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after 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 187 - God, that is, by the death of that person out of whose body the issue was to spring ; for no limitation, conveyance, or other human act can make it. For, if land be given to a man and...

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